Asking Questions in French Way back when I was in high school (several decades ago) I learned to ask questions in two different ways: inverted, and with "est-ce que". I was told the inverted version was more polite. Now I am taking two different courses online to refresh my poor French, and one has me asking questions with "est-ce que", but the other one uses almost exclusively the inverted version. I wonder whether anything has changed. Is it still true that the inverted version is more polite? In everyday life, which version do French people use more commonly? And how common is it just to ask a question by raising the voice at the end of the sentence without changing the sentence otherwise?