The courses
Four levels are open, from A1 to B2. Each unit is ten lessons; each lesson is one sitting.
A1 — First contact
Introduce yourself, count, tell the time, describe people, use the present tense, talk about your family and your day.
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Unit 1 — First contact
Introduce yourself, say the alphabet, count, tell the time, describe people, talk about your family, your travel plans and your first purchases.
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Unit 2 — Everyday life and the recent past
Talk about your day, your home and your town, say what you did yesterday, express what you can, want and must do.
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Unit 3 — Telling, comparing, expressing yourself
Tell a story in the past, ask real questions, compare things, say no properly, and step into authentic French through reading, film and music.
10 lessons
A2 — Everyday life
The future and the conditional, relative pronouns, giving instructions, getting around, the subjunctive and every pronoun in its right place.
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Unit 4 — Talking about the future, and living the culture
Read your first texts, talk about what will happen, describe precisely, link your sentences, and start enjoying French songs, series and films.
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Unit 5 — Giving instructions, getting around, discovering the French-speaking world
Follow a recipe, tell someone what to do, replace nouns with pronouns, take public transport, ask your way, and travel through French-speaking countries.
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Unit 6 — The subjunctive, and mastering pronouns
Express a wish, a doubt or an obligation with the subjunctive, then put every pronoun in its right place — the last step before level B1.
10 lessons
B1 — Saying what you think
Reported speech, opinion and disagreement, connectors, the passive, the DELF B1 exam, and reading the tense novels are written in.
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Unit 1 — Sharpening the sound, refining the moment
Nasal vowels, accents, the recent past and the gerund, the homophones that trip up every written text, and the vocabulary of feelings.
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Unit 2 — The earlier past, obligation, and the DELF B1
The pluperfect and the passive, the language of rules and forms, and the four papers of the DELF B1 examination.
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Unit 3 — Giving your opinion, reporting speech
Ten ways to say what you think, the mechanics of reported speech, cause and consequence, and three real conversations: airport, restaurant, hotel.
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Unit 4 — Pointing, linking, protesting
Demonstrative and compound relative pronouns, logical connectors, nominalisation, the language of complaint — and a song.
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Unit 5 — Nuancing, marvelling, and French from elsewhere
Surprise, accents, indefinite words, opinion and disagreement, the future perfect — and two lessons in the French of Quebec.
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Unit 6 — Trusting, contrasting, and the French of books
Say what you trust and what you doubt, guess a noun's gender, oppose and concede, tell apart the homophones of tôt, and read the passé simple — the last unit of level B1.
10 lessons
B2 — Arguing, working, passing the exam
Every tense including the passé simple, the world of work — CV, cover letter, interview — the conditional and the subjunctive in full, the DELF B2 and the TEF, and a plan towards C1.
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Unit 1 — Negation, connectors, and telling the past
Leur and leurs, negation in all its forms, the order of object pronouns, logical connectors, restriction, and the two tenses every French story is built on.
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Unit 2 — Every tense, and the French people actually speak
The passé simple you will write, the pluperfect, the many jobs of the present, the progressive French supposedly lacks, the gerund, the future and the future perfect — plus slang and the regional languages of France.
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Unit 3 — The world of work: CV, letter, interview
Writing a French CV and covering letter, getting through a job interview, relative pronouns and en and y in professional writing, the homophones waiting in every application, and the expressions built on « cas ».
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Unit 4 — Comparing, building words, and sitting the exam
Comparison beyond plus que, prefixes and suffixes, the plurals that break the rule, the written paper of the DELF B2 and the oral of the TEF — and reading and songs as a method.
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Unit 5 — The unreal, the subjective, and the road to C1
The conditional, present and past, and the subjunctive, present and past — the moods of what is not, or not yet, true. Synonyms and near-homonyms, the expressions of the DALF C1, a concrete plan for the next level, and the review of the whole B2.
10 lessons
Level names follow the Common European Framework of Reference, used here as a guide.