French course for conversation and DELF certification

Bienvenue! Je m'appelle Dr. Jean-Denis et je suis votre instructeur / Welcome! My name is Dr. Jean-Denis and I am your instructor.

This first video will give students an introduction to the instructor and the main components of the course which will include written lecture, videos, and quizzes to help you develop speaking, writing, listening, and reading skills in French.

Dr. Jean-Denis is fluent in French with multiple DELF Certifications and years of teaching experience. The course will begin with pronunciation exercises and familiarization with vocabulary before skill building and scenarios.

In this section, I will pronounce several words and phrases in French to warm students up to the course. It is important to work on pronunciation while building your vocabulary. A hint of the pronunciation is in Bold. Students should continue increasing their vocabulary through reading, watching movies, and practicing with colleagues.

In this video, the instructor covers French vocabulary that will be useful for the DELF exam. Reading and watching French cinema will also be helpful for building your vocabulary.

In this video, the instructor covers French vocabulary that will be useful for the DELF exam. Reading and watching French cinema will also be helpful for building your vocabulary.

This video contains several helpful adjectives and adverbs in French with pronunciation and translation as students learn more about different contexts when you might use them in conversation and writing. In the DELF exam preparation later in the course, the instructor will utilize some of these adjectives and adverbs that students will see in any French magazine or book.

Thus far students have reviewed some pronunciation, and vocabulary. In this next section, we will cover utilization of more advanced conversation, and writing that you may encounter in the future. There is an attached article which will prepare students for speaking and writing in French.

Next, students will hear the instructor discuss several common verbs as he pronounces and translates them. You may be familiar with some of these verbs but keep building your list of verbs that you may need in conversation and correspondence.

Ultimately, the instructor will provide in the video a short essay that contains various verbs conjugated in different tenses for a story about a French king. For letters, emails, and the DELF exam it will be important to understand how to conjugate verbs and write them correctly.

In this video, the instructor will conjugate a verb in several tenses and talk about the difference in tenses.

In this video, the instructor will simulate visiting a restaurant and beginning your order of a coffee and a meal with friends. Reading French menus and practicing the pronunciation of words and phrases is a suggestion so that students can order in a Francophone country seamlessly.

In this video, students will hear the instructor simulate a conversation in French that you might have on an elevator breaking the ice.

In this video, students will hear the instructor simulate a short conversation over the phone in French.

The DELF exam is one of the most important and respected language exams in the world. As the instructor mentions in the video, passing the DELF B1 and/or B2 provides one with access to study, work, and travel opportunities. These exams could fulfill the linguistic requirements to work or study in France although it depends on the University program or career path which may require a higher level if you are in a technical, specialized field. The instructor covers the components, timing, and instructions of the exam here before he discusses each of the 4 sections in subsequent videos.

This video describes the section of the DELF exam that evaluates your ability to listen and understand someone speaking in the French Language. During the exam, the audio is quick with the tone and inflection of a native speaker to simulate actual conversation.

This video describes the section of the DELF exam that evaluates your ability to read and interpret writings in the French Language. You will have to answer specific questions for each document.

This video describes the section of the DELF exam that evaluates your ability to write in the French Language. It is important to practice placement of French accents on words, transition words, as well as familiarization with the important vocabulary to use when discussion of common topics like L'environment, L'ecole, ou Le travail. The instructor will read and discuss a question and then articulate a full written essay example in French discussed and shown to the students.

This video describes the section of the DELF exam that evaluates your ability to speak in the French Language.

The final video is a short conclusion message which invites students to reach out to the instructor.  There is a downloadable final exercise of an email in French which Dr. Jean-Denis translates to English. Read it in French first and try to understand it then read the English translation.

If I sent you that email (Production Oral-Ecrit exemple) how would you respond to me verbally in French? What could you write to me via email in response? These are helpful exercises taken directly from the DELF exam to keep you practicing your verbal and writing abilities. If they have any specific questions or desire test preparation services for the DELF.

Bonne chance!

Dr. Jean-Denis