Papote by TC Fusion
The Papote mascot, a Gallic rooster with a tricolour tail, waving next to its snail sidekick

French at the speed a French person talks.

Papote is a feed of short French videos made for French people rather than for learners: vlogs, street interviews, cooking, stand-up, football arguments. French and English captions run together, and the word being said lights up as it goes past. Tap the word you missed, and it comes back on the day you were about to lose it.

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That hour of short video you already watch, with the captions on

The Papote feed playing a French short with word-synced French and English captions The Parlé tab showing spoken French forms next to their textbook forms, each with a clip of someone saying it A tapped word showing its meaning in the sentence, its dictionary form, and its article A review card replaying a saved word inside the clip it came from The Explore search screen showing every clip that uses a typed French word, with the channel that said it

How it works

Two caption lines, one lit word

A clip plays and two lines of captions run under it, French on top and English below. The word being said lights up as it goes past, which is how you find out where one word ended and the next started. You pick a level before the first clip, and the feed is built from it.

Ouais, not oui

French people don't talk the way the textbook does. Oui becomes ouais, tu as becomes t'as, je ne sais pas turns into chais pas. The Parlé tab collects those pairs from the clips and puts the spoken form next to the written one, with a few seconds of someone saying it.

The word you missed

Tap it and you get the sense it carries in that line, plus the dictionary form it came from, and nouns come with their un or une. When liaison welds every word to the next, slow the clip to 0.75× or 0.5×; the captions stay in time.

Cards that replay the clip

Save a word and the clip is saved with it. Saved words come back as cards on the day you were about to lose them, and each card plays back the few seconds you took the word from.

One word, every clip that says it

Not sure how a word is used? Type it and watch ten people use it, each clip with the channel that said it.

No streak to protect. Nothing to lose by leaving it alone for a week.

Videos play in the official YouTube player and belong to the creators who made them. Every clip carries the name of its channel and links back to the original.