Learn French with Family Business
Yes, Family Business is a B2-level pick for French learners. A family turns their butcher shop into a cannabis business in this fast farce. The plot is easy to follow, but the heavy verlan and street slang delivered at speed make it a slangy B2 that teaches the casual French textbooks skip.
Key takeaways
- Family Business is a B2-level pick for French, best suited to upper-intermediate learners.
- A fast farce packed with real Parisian street slang and verlan.
- It runs 3 seasons, 18 episodes, so its vocabulary recurs enough that finishing it builds real French listening.
- Against the 17 other French titles in our difficulty index, it is easier than 6 of them.
- Expect everyday French such as famille and argent.
- Watch it with French subtitles rather than your own language, which the research links to the biggest listening gain.
- Difficulty
- B2 (challenging)
- Best for
- upper-intermediate learners
- Format
- TV series
- Length
- 3 seasons, 18 episodes
- Original audio
- French
- Genre
- comedy, crime
- Platform
- Netflix
- Relative difficulty
- Easier than 6 of 17 other French titles we rate
- In our index
- 1 of 18 French titles
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French words you'll hear in Family Business
- famille
- family
- argent
- money
- boucherie
- butcher's shop
- affaire
- deal, business matter
- beuh
- weed (slang for cannabis)
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Family Business good for learning French slang?
- Yes, at B2. It is packed with verlan and Parisian street slang delivered fast, which is great authentic practice once you have the basics, with graded subtitles for the pace.