Every morning at 8:00 AM, a 10-minute exercise designed for your work arrives in your inbox. You reply as you would to any other email, and a detailed correction follows right away. Fluent French, without feeling like you’re studying.
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From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
Subject: Your exercise of the day · 10 min
Hello Daniel,
Here is today’s scenario. Translate this message to a business partner into French:
“I realized this morning that the figures in the report were wrong. Could you send us the updated version before Friday’s meeting?”
Today’s goal: reuse the expression from Monday.
Simply reply to this email.
Good luck,
Aldo
Meetings, emails, negotiations: when you work in France or with French clients, it’s often in the decisive moments that French makes the difference. Yet between a forty-hour week and courses that require blocking out time, progress always comes after everything else.
Traditional training takes time and mental energy that a busy schedule can’t spare.
Badges and notifications don’t hold up for long against the urgencies of the office.
Without regular practice, new vocabulary is forgotten within days.
ALDO asks for no new tool, no password, no slot in your calendar. Everything happens where you already work: in your inbox.
08:00
A short text to translate, drawn from real work situations: a client email, an update in a meeting, a negotiation.
10 min
Straight from your inbox, whenever it suits you during the day.
Right away
A suggested version, the nuances explained, anglicisms and false friends spotted, and a score to track your progress.
The next day
A point not yet mastered returns from a new angle, until it becomes second nature.
The exercise
From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
Subject: Your exercise of the day · 10 min
Hello Daniel,
Here is today’s scenario. Translate this message to a business partner into French:
“I realized this morning that the figures in the report were wrong. Could you send us the updated version before Friday’s meeting?”
Today’s goal: reuse the expression from Monday.
Simply reply to this email.
Good luck,
Aldo
The correction
From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
« J’ai réalisé ce matin que les chiffres dans le rapport étaient faux. Pourriez-vous nous envoyer le version mis à jour avant la réunion de vendredi ? »
« Je me suis rendu compte ce matin que les chiffres du rapport étaient faux. Pourriez-vous nous envoyer la version mise à jour avant la réunion de vendredi ? »
The false friend. “Réaliser” mainly means to carry out or to achieve. To say you became aware of something, French prefers “se rendre compte”: “je me suis rendu compte”. It’s the expression from Monday.
The preposition. “The figures in the report” becomes “les chiffres du rapport”: in French, the figures belong to the report.
The agreement. “Version” is feminine: “la version”. The past participle agrees with it: “mise à jour”.
Score:
15/20.The meaning is right. Only a few turns of phrase borrowed from English are left to fix.
Tomorrow: “se rendre compte” will come back in a new form in your next exercise.
Keep it up,
Aldo
Practicing every day is also a way to prepare without thinking about it. ALDO’s steady rhythm gradually prepares you for the DELF or the DALF*, to showcase your French officially on your résumé, without intensive cramming.
* DELF and DALF are official French-language diplomas. ALDO is not affiliated with the bodies that issue them and does not guarantee any result.
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Technology replaces neither the teacher nor the learner’s effort. It removes friction, keeps learning going between lessons, and multiplies the impact of human connection.
ALDO was born in the classroom. An English trainer for companies and a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, Jade Suzor saw the same thing with every learner: learning doesn’t stop after school, but making progress while working full time is a real challenge. ALDO is the answer: a short, demanding daily ritual that fits into an already full day.
Jade Suzor, founder of ALDO
No. Everything happens in your inbox, the one you already check. No tool to install, no password.
10 minutes a day. The exercise arrives at 8:00 AM, and you reply whenever it suits you during the day.
All levels are welcome. Exercises follow the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), from A1 to C2, and adapt as you progress.
The ALDO agent, an artificial intelligence guided by a teaching framework designed by a language trainer: CEFR levels, grammar, business expressions, false friends. Its corrections are kind and explain every choice.
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Why “Aldo”? For Assisted Learning Delivered Originally. But above all, it’s a first name: the one that came to mind when the project started. We later found out it was also the name of the owner of our favorite trattoria, in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. A place full of heart and generosity, just like we want every ALDO email to be.
