French for travel · Free video lesson

French Travel Speaking: Water, Toilets and Help

Use three useful requests in a short travel conversation.

Watch, listen, then practise · 2 minutes 25 seconds

Original Parle lesson with English captions, AI-assisted graphics and synthesized reference audio. The audio models complete French dialogue phrases; the sound focus stays inside the displayed request. Watch on YouTube · Read the captions.

Use the lesson

  1. Listen to the five-line restaurant exchange before repeating the lines.
  2. Use the three eight-second pauses to ask for water, the toilets and help without copying the model first.
  3. Answer the left-or-right direction check before its reveal, then use the matching free review exercise.
Practise the free travel-conversation review

Lesson text and French models

Read the French models and the instructions you see in the video. Open the plain-text captions.

Synthesized reference audio; AI-assisted scripts and graphics. English instructions and captions; free website and video practice.

Eau · Toilettes · Aide

I can ask for water, the toilet, and help.

Bonjour, de l'eau, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, water, please.

Voilà. Et avec ceci ?

Here you are. Anything else?

Les toilettes, s'il vous plaît ?

The toilets, please?

Au fond, à gauche.

At the back, on the left.

Merci. Vous pouvez m'aider ?

Thank you. Can you help me?

Les toilettes, s'il vous plaît ?

For /t/, touch just behind the upper teeth; release.

Ask politely for water.

Bonjour, de l'eau, s'il vous plaît.

Hello, water, please.

Ask politely for the toilets.

Les toilettes, s'il vous plaît ?

The toilets, please?

Ask politely for help.

Vous pouvez m'aider ?

Can you help me?

Where are the toilets? A Left or B Right?

Answer: A · Left At the back, on the left.

I can ask for water, the toilet, and help.

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Original lesson by the developer of Parle: Learn & Speak French, App ID 6761505050. AI-assisted scripts and graphics; synthesized reference audio. About Parle.