Our French courses

How every level works

1. Placement check (A2 and above): when you register, a short check on the level below makes sure you start at the right level. Score 60% or more and you start the level you chose.
2. One lesson a day, each with a short daily test. A new day unlocks every day at midnight (Paris time).
3. Move up automatically: attempt every daily test of the level with an average of 75% or more, and the next level opens after the last day.
4. 4 final tests on the last day: 40 questions each on grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing and speaking (by voice). Your result shows exactly which topics to revise and which days teach them.

A1 · Beginner — 51-day Intensive course

51 lessons with daily tests · move up to A2 automatically · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 Introducing yourself and saying hello — French alphabet and pronunciation
2. Day 2 Spelling your name — Accents, silent letters and liaison
3. Day 3 Greeting people and saying goodbye — Greetings: tu vs. vous
4. Day 4 Who is it? — Subject pronouns
5. Day 5 Nationality and origin — The verb être (to be)
6. Day 6 Classroom objects — Nouns: masculine and feminine
7. Day 7 Things I like — Definite articles le, la, l', les
8. Day 8 In my bag — Indefinite articles un, une, des
9. Day 9 My bedroom — Plural of nouns
10. Day 10 Age and phone number — Numbers 0 to 69
11. Day 11 Family — The verb avoir (to have)
12. Day 12 Introducing your family — Possessive adjectives
13. Day 13 Hobbies — Regular -er verbs in the present
14. Day 14 What I don't like — Negation ne ... pas

… and 37 more days.

A2 · Elementary — 48-day Intensive course

Placement check · 48 lessons with daily tests · move up to B1 automatically · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 Last weekend — Passé composé with avoir: irregular past participles
2. Day 2 Telling about an outing — Passé composé with être: verbs of movement
3. Day 3 Sophie's day — Agreement of the past participle with être
4. Day 4 A difficult morning — Pronominal verbs in the passé composé
5. Day 5 Things I've never done — Negation in the passé composé
6. Day 6 When I was little — The imparfait: formation
7. Day 7 My primary school — Imparfait for descriptions and habits
8. Day 8 A holiday memory — Passé composé vs. imparfait
9. Day 9 Presents — Direct object pronouns le, la, les
10. Day 10 Writing to friends — Indirect object pronouns lui, leur
11. Day 11 Places I go to — Pronoun y
12. Day 12 Groceries — Pronoun en
13. Day 13 Advice — Pronouns in the passé composé and imperative
14. Day 14 City or countryside? — Comparative of adjectives

… and 34 more days.

B1 · Intermediate — 45-day Intensive course

Placement check · 45 lessons with daily tests · move up to B2 automatically · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 An unexpected encounter — Plus-que-parfait
2. Day 2 A news story — Narrating in the past: all past tenses together
3. Day 3 If I were rich — Present conditional: formation
4. Day 4 Changing your life — Si + imparfait, conditionnel
5. Day 5 Regrets — Past conditional
6. Day 6 What if it had happened differently? — Si + plus-que-parfait, conditionnel passé
7. Day 7 Rumours and the media — Conditional for unconfirmed information
8. Day 8 Flat-sharing — Present subjunctive: regular formation
9. Day 9 Rules of living together — Irregular subjunctive verbs
10. Day 10 Family relationships — Subjunctive after wishes and feelings
11. Day 11 The future of the planet — Subjunctive vs. indicative after opinions
12. Day 12 Volunteering — Subjunctive after conjunctions (pour que, bien que)
13. Day 13 Things we need — Relative pronoun dont
14. Day 14 The world of work — Compound relative pronouns (lequel, auquel, duquel)

… and 31 more days.

B2 · Upper intermediate — 43-day Intensive course

Placement check · 43 lessons with daily tests · move up to C1 automatically · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 Looking for the ideal flatmate — Subjunctive in relative clauses
2. Day 2 Successes and failures — Past subjunctive
3. Day 3 The best memories — Subjunctive after superlatives and seul, premier
4. Day 4 Social inequality — Advanced concession: quoique, quel que soit, où que
5. Day 5 Economic crises — Expressing cause: étant donné que, puisque, faute de
6. Day 6 Climate change — Expressing consequence: si bien que, de sorte que, tellement que
7. Day 7 Data protection — Expressing purpose: de crainte que, de peur que
8. Day 8 Political life — Advanced time clauses: en attendant que, jusqu'à ce que
9. Day 9 Career choices — Hypothesis: mixed conditionals
10. Day 10 Future scenarios — Hypothesis without si: à supposer que, en admettant que
11. Day 11 Consumption — Passive alternatives: se faire, on, pronominal passive
12. Day 12 Charities and associations — Infinitive clauses (passé de l'infinitif)
13. Day 13 French history — Participial clauses (participe passé composé)
14. Day 14 Justice — Indefinite pronouns: n'importe qui, quiconque

… and 29 more days.

C1 · Advanced — 40-day Intensive course

Placement check · 40 lessons with daily tests · move up to C2 automatically · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 Proust's language — Subjunctive imperfect and pluperfect (recognition)
2. Day 2 Literary criticism — Literary inversion
3. Day 3 Alternative history — Conditional in hypothetical inversion (eût-il su)
4. Day 4 Paradox — Advanced concession: tout ... que, si ... que, pour ... que
5. Day 5 Journalistic writing — Advanced participial and absolute constructions
6. Day 6 Legal reasoning — Precise connectors: dès lors, en l'occurrence, a fortiori
7. Day 7 Scientific research — Modalisation and hedging in academic French
8. Day 8 French administration — Impersonal constructions in formal register
9. Day 9 Geopolitics — Nominal style and noun chains
10. Day 10 Stand-up and humour — Register shifts: soutenu, courant, familier
11. Day 11 Satire — Irony and implicit meaning
12. Day 12 Poetry — Figures of speech: metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole
13. Day 13 Folk wisdom — Idioms and proverbs
14. Day 14 Professional writing — Precision verbs replacing faire, dire, mettre

… and 26 more days.

C2 · Mastery — 35-day Intensive course

Placement check · 35 lessons with daily tests · 4 final tests that show what to revise

1. Day 1 Literary pastiche — Passé simple and imperfect subjunctive in active use
2. Day 2 Classical prose — Stylistic inversion and archaic constructions
3. Day 3 The art of digression — Advanced syntax: incises and parentheticals
4. Day 4 The polyphonic novel — Polyphony and enunciation
5. Day 5 Scientific uncertainty — Subtle modality: pouvoir, devoir, sembler, paraître
6. Day 6 Constitutional law — Rare connectors: nonobstant, eu égard à, à l'aune de
7. Day 7 Great orators — Rhetorical figures: chiasmus, antithesis, oxymoron
8. Day 8 Flaubert and realism — Style indirect libre in literary analysis
9. Day 9 Descartes, Pascal, Sartre — Philosophical discourse
10. Day 10 Freedom — Advanced academic writing: dissertation
11. Day 11 Baudelaire — Literary commentary at expert level
12. Day 12 Translating the untranslatable — Translation techniques: transposition, modulation
13. Day 13 Medical ethics — Specialised vocabulary: medicine
14. Day 14 Financial markets — Specialised vocabulary: finance

… and 21 more days.

Exam prep: DELF · DALF · TCF (A1 to C2)

Prepare for the French certifications DELF and DALF with 30 timed mock exams per level, with full audio recordings. These diplomas and the TCF are widely used for study, work and residence applications; check the current requirement for your own case on service-public.fr. Mock exams cover Compréhension de l'oral (with neural French audio), Compréhension des écrits, Production écrite and Production orale.

Every Intensive course level includes its official sample papers too.

Exam prep A1 Exam prep A2 Exam prep B1 Exam prep B2 Exam prep C1 Exam prep C2

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