Learn French in Nepali — Free French Course for Nepali Students

Last updated: September 2026

Learn French in Nepali, free — 45 lessons from A0 to A2. Nepali already gives you nasal vowels and five levels of politeness; this course drills the two consonants it does not give you at all, f and v.

Two sounds you will have to build from nothing

Most learners of French arrive able to make either an f or a v, and spend their energy on the vowel in tu. A Nepali speaker arrives with neither of those consonants, because the fricatives of Nepali are only स and ह. फ is an aspirated p, and व is the approximant w, as in वाटो.

So French f and French v are both genuinely new. ferme and fille need a mouth position Nepali does not use, and vous, voir and vivre need the top teeth resting on the lower lip with air pushed through. Saying vous with व gives a soft w-ish sound that French speakers hear as wrong.

This is worth knowing before you start, because it changes what to practise. Four minimal pairs carry the whole load: for f, fin against vin; for v against b, vous against boue, vent against banc, and veau against beau. If those four are clean, your accent is already ahead of most.

The site has a pronunciation coach that slows each word down and describes the mouth position, and it drills exactly these two consonants because they are the ones Nepali speakers need most.

What Nepali already gives you

Nasal vowels, for a start. Nepali has five, written with the ँ mark, against four in French. The movement of sending air through the nose while the mouth stays open is already part of how you speak, so French on, an, in and un are a change of habit rather than a new skill. This is a real advantage — it is the hardest part of French for Arabic and English speakers.

Politeness is the second. Nepali runs five levels of respect, from तँ at the bottom through तिमी and तपाईं to हजुर and the royal form at the top, and it changes the verb with each one. French has two, tu and vous, and it changes the verb as well. Choosing the right level is the single thing beginners worry about most, and you have been doing a version of it your whole life.

The caution is that the two systems do not line up. French tu is used far more casually between colleagues, students and neighbours than तिमी ever is, and in France using vous where tu is expected sounds cold rather than respectful.

One more thing you already have: French runs left to right, like Devanagari. A learner whose script runs the other way has to fight their reading direction on every line, and you do not.

The French vowels Nepali has no answer for

French builds two vowels with rounded lips at the front of the mouth: the u of tu, rue and dessus, and the eu of deux, peu and heureux. Nepali has no vowel in that position at all — its front vowels are इ and ए, both unrounded, and उ is a back vowel.

Here is how to build the French u. Say French i, the ee sound, and hold your tongue exactly where it is. Then slowly round your lips while the tongue stays forward. The moment the tongue drifts back, you have produced Nepali उ, and that is the mistake almost everybody makes for the first month.

The two back vowels it must never be confused with are ou, as in tout and roue. Four words separate the set: tu, tout, rue, roue. Say them in that order, slowly, out loud, and do not move on until all four sound different in your own ear.

For the eu vowel, deux against douze is the same test, and dessus against dessous catches both pairs together once the single words start working.

The grammar idea that will be new

Nepali does not sort every noun into a masculine or a feminine class, and it does not make adjectives agree with the noun. French does both, and it does them everywhere: le and la, un and une, grand and grande, plus every adjective after them.

That means each French noun you learn arrives with one extra piece of information that you have no habit for remembering. The course attaches the article to the noun from the very first vocabulary list and keeps testing it, because learning le or la alongside the word is far easier than coming back to fix it later — the noun and its article have to be learned as one item, like a single word.

Word order is the easier change. Nepali is subject-object-verb, French is subject-verb-object, and the switch is made once and then holds. Agreement, by contrast, needs months of practice before it stops being deliberate.

Reading French from Devanagari

French uses 26 Latin letters, upper and lower case, and none of them changes shape depending on where it sits in a word. Against Devanagari's conjuncts and half-letters, the shapes are the easy part.

The hard part is that French spelling is not phonetic — the same letters change sound between words — and the accent marks change meaning rather than being decorative. The difference between é and è is the difference between the ay of café and the eh of mère.

Pronunciation is written out in easy-to-read letters for every French word on this site, so a sound never has to be guessed from the spelling, and each difficult sound comes with its mouth position named rather than only played back. Take the alphabet lesson slowly at the start: 26 items, twenty minutes, and it prevents a great many errors later.

Nepali students: use this as a course, not a website

The course follows the Common European Framework, so the levels mean something outside this site: A0 and A1 after the first six parts, then the start of A2.

Every lesson closes with a ten-question quiz and an answer key, and there are seven tests plus a final A1 exam. They are built the way an exam's questions are — a stem, four options, and a key that explains why. If French is a school or college subject for you, work through them honestly rather than clicking past.

Be clear about the ceiling: this reaches A2. It does not teach B1 or above, it does not go into literature, and it is not DELF B2 preparation. It also will not help with application forms, statements of purpose or questions about studying or working abroad — those depend on rules that change, so check official sources. What is here is the French foundation, free, with no gaps, in order.

Turning the site into Nepali

Open any page, tap the globe button at the top right, and pick Nepali. That is the whole setup, and your choice is saved on your own device, so you do it once.

Nepali is not built into the site the way Urdu is. When you choose it, the English text of a lesson is sent to a free translation service and the Nepali comes back, then it is saved in your own browser so the same text is never sent twice. The privacy page names both services.

The site is straight about the trade-off: machine translation is usually helpful, but it can be clumsy with short phrases, word order and polite forms. Treat the English line as the source of truth. If a translated line and the English line disagree, follow the English.

Your first two weeks

Day one: finish Lesson 1 in one sitting. It takes about half an hour, and afterwards you can greet somebody and spell your own name in French.

From there, fifteen to twenty minutes a day. Short and daily beats one long session a week, and it beats it by a wide margin when the work is mouth positions rather than vocabulary.

Choose two drills and do them out loud every day for the whole fortnight. First the consonants, because you are building both from nothing: fin against vin for f, and veau against beau, vous against boue for v. Then the vowel, tu against tout. Two minutes in front of a mirror or a phone camera. A Nepali speaker can only learn these by feeling the difference in their own mouth, and week one is much easier than year two.

Mark each lesson as done when you finish it. The progress page keeps the count and the roadmap shows which part comes next. If something is wrong — a translation, an answer key, an audio file — use the feedback page; corrections help the next Nepali speaker who arrives.

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