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French grammar: all topics

One small rule per guide, explained in plain English, step by step, with a table and real lines from the Lexayo story. The guides follow the story’s chapters, so they run from first words to the harder points in the order you meet them. New to French? Start with Bonjour, bonsoir, au revoir.

Arriving in Madrid

A new flat, a nosy neighbour, first words

Market & café life

Tomás’s oranges, churros with Elena

Friends & family

Photos, feelings, a very long day

Out and about

Lost in town, a bad day, a party

The job hunt

A terrible boss, a CV, an interview, a new office, and first pay day

Side story: The payslip

A pay day that doesn’t add up, a landlord who wants the rent, a call to admin, and a director who dined on his own salary

Christmas in Galicia

Nuria takes Javi home: Mamá, the village, the food, a storm, the sea

Side story: The Cíes Islands

No ferries in winter, a cousin with a boat, wolves in the old days, and a very seasick Don Ramón

A mystery in the building

Things vanish on Calle del Pez; Doña Elena investigates

Side story: Nuria’s knee

A fall on the dark stairs, four hours in A&E, Javi’s instructions, and a very worried landlord

Summer in Andalucía

Trains, a hotel from hell, the beach, a new accent, a flamenco night

Side story: The trip to Galicia

A cancelled train, a hire car, Doña Elena at the wheel for the first time in sixty years, and a very long way north

Javi’s family comes to Madrid

Parents from Medellín, twenty-two relatives on video call, culture clashes, one very big dinner

Side story: Elections in Calle del Pez

Doña Elena against Don Ramón for president of the residents’ association, and one very secret vote

Tomás’s wedding

A pastry-chef bride, a stag night nobody remembers, mariachis, and a missing ring

Side story: The neighbourhood league

Tomás gets fit for the five-a-side league, Javi coaches for free, and Nuria, who hates football, ends up in goal

Moving in together

Nuria and Javi hunt for a flat, dream big, argue, compromise. Don Ramón is the landlord

Side story: Stop, thief!

Doña Elena stops a pickpocket with her umbrella: a police statement, fame on TV, a trial

The film shoot

A film crew takes over Calle del Pez: extras, the press, a star who quits, the premiere

Side story: The complaint

Doña Elena orders a modern phone online: the wrong model, a talking speaker, a phone queue and a refund at Javi’s shop

Save Calle del Pez

A developer wants the building: letters, a campaign, a town-hall debate, and a poet in Elena’s flat

Side story: Repairs in the building

A town-hall letter, Tomás's borrowed tools, a damp patch with the poet's face, and a blackout for the whole street

La Esquina opens

Tomás and Marisa open a café: a business plan, hard bargaining, a flood, opening day, and twins on the way

Side story: Nuria goes back to studying

An evening art-history course, Don Ramón in the seminar for the free coffee, a day at the Prado, and an exam Doña Elena wins at eighty

Medellín

The abuela’s ninetieth: vos and usted, a secret from 1965 shared with Elena, a coffee farm, and the abuela’s blessing

Side story: Ramón looks for company

Don Ramón on a friendship platform for the over-seventies: a profile by Javi, fourteen polite messages a day, a first dinner with chaperones on both sides

Elena’s memoirs

Elena writes her life story: idioms, irony, a TV debate, a leaked chapter, the launch

Side story: The neighbourhood fiestas

A singer with no voice, a magic show, a mus final, and Doña Elena on stage, eighty years old and singing rock

The publisher

Nuria’s new job at the publisher: a red pen for Doña Elena, a stolen idea, and the Book Fair

Learn it in the story

Every rule here belongs to a short scene on Calle del Pez. Watch it, answer as it plays, then say the lines yourself.

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