Best first scene for French
Start with cafe and travel replies because it creates concrete replies, not abstract grammar explanations. The goal is to answer, repair one sentence, and answer a related follow-up.
Prompt to try
Order coffee and keep the conversation going when the barista asks a follow-up.
Correction target
Tell the AI tutor to listen for nasal vowels, liaison, silent endings, and rhythm. One target keeps the session useful when the learner normally struggles with knowing the grammar on paper but freezing when a native speaker answers quickly.
Prompt to try
Ask me one French question at a time. Correct only the mistake that stops my answer from sounding natural, then make me repeat the sentence.
How to measure progress
A good session ends with one corrected French sentence that can be reused tomorrow. Do not count only minutes studied; count whether the learner stayed in the spoken exchange.
Prompt to try
Make me reuse my corrected French answer with one changed detail.