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A cool fact! French is the national language of the United Nations and is the second most commonly taught foreign language, after English.

When studying to be fluent in French, master these common greetings to shape your conversational proficiencies. Almost everybody who speaks French uses the subsequent list of vocabularies: These jargons are so very French.

FRENCH EXPRESSION: GREETING PEOPLE
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
ben (= bien) well
bise: faire la bise to kiss (on both cheeks)
bof expression meaning “not too well,” “so-so”
bol: avoir du bol to be in luck
la bouffe the food meal
bourre: être à la bourre to be late
un bout de temps quite a while
Ça va? How are things? How are you doing?
dis donc tell me, say
filer un rencard to make a date
Ça marche It's OK. It’s fine.
piger to understand
que dalle nothing at all (sod all)
le rencard date
Salut! Hi!
se faire une bouffe to prepare a meal
se ramener to arrive unexpectedly
se sauver to leave in a hurry
se taper une sale tronche to look dreadful
sympa (= sympathique) nice, cool
une tache spot, blot, jerk, idiot (git, berk)
tomber sur quelqu'un to bump into someone
la tronche face
trop: être de trop to be a third wheel (to play gooseberry)
tutoyer to say tu to somebody
le tuyau piece of advice
vieux, mon my old pal (my old mate)
vouvoyer to say vous to somebody