Day 7: Week 1 Review

1-minute self-intro + dictation + speaking test · 35 min

Nothing new today. This is the day you find out whether you can actually use the last six days. You move on to Week 2 either way — but you should know where your holes are.

1. Week 1 on one page

Final check on the two verbs

2. ✍️ Dictation — 15 sentences

Method: put these 15 sentences into LangNote's dictation mission and write them down without looking. Doing it alone? Have the TTS read them and write on paper. Spelling counts — French is full of words that sound identical and are spelled differently (ai/es/est, on/ont, sont/son).

Scoring

Spelling traps for English speakers (this is where the marks go):

• Je suis — the final s is silent but you still write it
• Vous êtes — it sounds like voo-ZET but it is s + ê, not a z
• C'est — sounds like seh, spelled est
• J'ai — sounds like zhay, spelled ai
• The accents are not decoration. ou (or) vs où (where), a (has) vs à (to) are different words. Leaving off an accent is a spelling error, not a typo.
• Lower case: français, américain, lundi — English capitalises all of these; French does not.

3. 🗣 Speaking test — 1 minute about yourself

Rule: no script, and do not stop for a full minute. Grammar mistakes are fine. Stopping is not — that is the skill being tested.

The 8 things you must include (checklist)

• ☐a greeting (Bonjour / Bonsoir)
• ☐your name (Je m'appelle…)
• ☐your nationality (Je suis américain)
• ☐where you live (J'habite à… en… aux…)
• ☐your age (J'ai … ans)
• ☐your job (Je suis…)
• ☐what you're doing now (J'apprends le français depuis une semaine)
• ☐a closing (Enchanté / Merci)

Model answer (~45 seconds)

Bonjour ! Je m'appelle Alex.Je suis américain et j'habite à New York, aux États-Unis.J'ai trente-cinq ans.Je suis entrepreneur, je travaille dans une start-up.J'apprends le français depuis une semaine. C'est difficile, mais c'est amusant !J'ai une question : vous parlez anglais ?Enchanté !

Can't fill the minute? Bolt on today's state (Je suis fatigué / Je suis content), family (J'ai une sœur), sensations (J'ai faim). Week 1 material alone is more than enough for 60 seconds.

Self-scoring

Log your LangNote pronunciation score too. Compare it with the Day 1 screenshot — that difference is your first week's actual result.

4. 🎭 Role-play test — survive 5 turns

Put this scenario into LangNote's role-play and hold 5 turns in French only.

Scene: a café in Paris. The French person at the next table starts talking to you.

★ The real target is turn 5, not turn 4. Not understanding and asking again in French instead of switching to English is what keeps a real conversation alive.

5. Thirty review questions

A. Fill in (être / avoir)

1. Je ___ américain. 2. J' ___ faim. 3. Vous ___ français ? 4. Ils ___ deux enfants.
2. Nous ___ à Paris. 6. Tu ___ quel âge ? 7. Elle ___ fatiguée. 8. J' ___ mal à la tête.

B. Translate into French

1. Hello, how are you? 10. My name is ___. 11. I live in New York.
2. What time is it? 13. What is it? 14. How much is it? 15. Where are the toilets?
3. I'm thirsty. 17. She's French. 18. I don't understand.

C. Pronunciation — which one is the odd one out?

1. ① vous ② nous ③ tu ④ pour
2. ① Paris ② petit ③ grand ④ chef

D. Which expression fits?

1. leaving a shop → 22. meeting someone in the evening → 23. saying bye to a friend →
2. meeting someone for the first time →

E. Fix the mistake (every one of these is a classic English-speaker error)

1. Je suis 30 ans. 26. Je suis faim. 27. Je habite à New York.
2. Vous es français ? 29. J'ai fatigué. 30. Je m'appelle est Alex.

6. Week 1 final check

• ☐10+ of the 15 dictation sentences
• ☐1-minute self-intro with no script
• ☐5 role-play turns completed
• ☐22+ of the 30 review questions
• ☐LangNote pronunciation score logged and compared with Day 1

3 or more passed → Week 2. 2 or fewer → one more day on Days 3, 5 and 6.

⚠️ Quitting here is the only real failure mode. Feeling like you've improved less than you expected after week 1 is completely normal. French spends its first two weeks rewiring your ear, and that work is invisible from the inside.

7. 📲 Upload to LangNote

This week you upload all six files from Days 1–6 at once, not a single file. If it is too much for one lesson, split it — but keep the 10 sentences × 6 days = 60 sentences together in one lesson. That becomes this week's review deck.

langNote is a paid subscription and this course recommends it. The 30 lessons are free and complete either way.