French for Beginners: Complete Course with a Native Teacher

Explore the symbols of France—le drapeau français in blue, blanc, rouge; le coq and Marianne—plus French gastronomy, while practicing vocabulaire, conjugaison, phonétique, and travel phrases for airport, hotel, and dining.

Learn to fill out a French form, reading key fields like prénom, nom, date de naissance, lieu de naissance, ville, pays, adresse actuelle, courriel, and nombre d'enfants, with guided corrections.

Master French greetings and farewells, including bonjour, bonsoir, salut, coucou, and au revoir, plus quick exit phrases like a bientot, a demain, and a plus tard.

Master the magic words in French—bonjour, bonsoir, merci, s'il vous plaît, et pardon—to sound polite and natural in everyday public spaces and simple interactions.

Discover eight good reasons to learn French, from reading and traveling to work, plus pronunciation tips and a playful map of France with Tintin, Asterix, and Jules Verne.

Discover the diverse French landscape beyond Paris, featuring Corse beaches, la Provence villages, la Bretagne and la Alsace countryside, and the snow-capped les Alpes.

Draw the map of France and discover which famous French personality you resemble based on shapes and Paris placement, from Napoléon to Amélie Poulain and Claude Monet.

Match pictures and words to build beginner French gastronomy vocabulary, including le vin, le croissant, les escargots, le foie gras, la baguette, le fromage, et le saucisson.

Practice matching French greetings to images and correct use of bonjour, salut, bonsoir, bonne nuit, au revoir, and à plus; learn when à plus tard or adieu fits.

Learn to introduce yourself in French with a practical survival kit: say your name, age, nationality, where you come from, where you live, and your profession, plus practice pronunciation.

Explore basic city vocabulary in French, including c'est un restaurant, une boulangerie, un magasin, un vélo, une voiture, adjectives like bruyante, moderne, calme, jolie, historique, and masculine and feminine forms.

Count from un to dix in French, prioritizing pronunciation before writing, then learn tips, fun facts, and exercises to reinforce memory with examples like une table pour deux.

Master French infinitives and regular -er endings with manger, danser, voyager, and learn pronunciation strategies, including not pronouncing the final r. Review irregulars like lire, dire, boire, voir.

Learn to conjugate the reflexive verb s'appeler in French, including forms like je m'appelle, tu t'appelles, il s'appelle, and vous vous appelez, plus pronunciation and usage tips.

Explore French phonetics: infinitive endings er vs non-er and the silent r after er, and study the 20 and 50 most frequent French verbs along with the upcoming u pronunciation.

Master the French 'u' and 'ou' sounds through tongue placement and lip rounding, with examples like salut, bonjour, nu vs nou, rue vs roue, and practice sentences.

Master basic French self-introductions in informal and formal contexts, using salut, moi, je m'appelle, tu versus vous, and enchanté.

Explore the French flag and the painting La Liberté guidant le peuple by Delacroix, with focus on liberty, revolution of 1830, and the Louvre.

Learn fundamental French through five exercises, including saluté ou prendre congé, transportation and city places, with online or book options, sentence ordering, corrections, and a crossword translating verbs to infinitive.

Explore the most common French swear word in context, learn soft alternatives like punaise and purée, and discover how to fake French with video examples for beginners.

Explore the pronunciation of merci beaucoup, including the eau sound like beau, and learn that merci beaucoup means thank you very much while discovering a meme and QR code sharing.

Engage in a video game based on episode 1 of the French book, accessible via QR code on mobile or desktop, and compete by registering your score.

Explore how to use WhatsApp stickers from sticker.ly to say bonjour, salut, merci, oui, non, and other greetings, with travel phrases for France.

Master essential survival French for travel with airport, plane, immigration, and customs phrases, greetings, polite forms, and emergency sentences to use at checkpoints and in transit.

Explore seven apps, websites, and podcasts to improve your French from A1 to C2, enhancing pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening with Duolingo, WordReference, conjugator, Forvo, TV5Monde, RFI facile, and Easy French.

Learn the French apéro, a convivial aperitif before dinner that opens the stomach, from l'apéro en été to l'apéro maison and picnic, with bière, pain, fromage, jambon, and saucisson.

Master French indefinite articles un, une, and des, learn gender patterns and pronunciation, with classroom examples and first-time usage to talk about people or objects.

Discover three essential rules of French pronunciation, including final e and final s in plurals and liaison, illustrated with examples like cinema, theatre, poubelle, livre, and je t'aime.

Learn the French definite articles le, la, les and l' before vowels, with masculine, feminine, and plural forms, plus pronunciation rules and practice exercises using apéritif foods.

Learn to tell singular from plural in French by listening for the definite articles le and les, noting the silent final s, with pronunciation cues and practice exercises.

Master basic French food vocabulary with gender and plural rules, naming items from la carotte to les frites. Explore omnivore, vegan, and vegetarian dietary terms and related sentences.

Master numbers eleven to twenty in French, with pronunciation and writing practice. Emphasize the difference between deux and douze, and patterns like dix-sept to dix-neuf, then vingt.

Master être, the to be verb, through its conjugations and pronunciation, with examples like je suis, tu es, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont, and practice exercises.

Master French negation by placing ne before the verb and pas after, with elision before vowels. Explore spoken vs written forms, variations like ne jamais, ne rien, and ne plus.

Review the three basic rules of French pronunciation, focusing on the silent e at word endings (e-final), with examples, accents, and common exceptions.

Master the second basic rule of French pronunciation: the final s is silent at word endings, with exceptions like mon fils, mars, virus, bus, and ananas.

Master French liaison pronunciation by distinguishing obligatory and forbidden cases, learning when to connect consonants to following vowels, with examples like vous avez and les amis.

Learn to ask and answer how you are in French using ça va, comment ça va, tu vas bien, vous allez bien, and basic negation with ne pas.

Learn to navigate French gastronomy with bread, wine, and cheese. Discover ordering at the boulangerie and fromagerie, pairing wine by terroir, and building an affordable parisian picnic.

Explore the French gastronomy trilogy of bread, cheese, and wine in a lively one-minute video. Celebrate family meals and convivial toasts.

Develop fluency in French by practicing verb être, negation, and responses to ça va, while describing paintings with gendered adjectives and reviewing food vocabulary online and in the book exercises.

Explore practical French basics with SAVA greetings, a meme-driven intro, and a masculine/feminine noun game, then use stickers featuring Monsieur Bean and common phrases like ça va and apéro.

Master survival French for transportation: buying tickets, navigating the metro and RER, and using taxis or Uber. Learn prices, pay by card, and choose one-way or round-trip tickets.

Learn French basics with Paris focus: the alphabet, avoir, counting, pronunciation tips, and discussing nationality, while exploring Paris landmarks like the Louvre, Notre-Dame, and the Seine.

Learn essential French vocabulary and phrases through Parisian watercolor scenes, from the Eiffel Tower to the boulangerie, terrace of a bistrot, and metro, plus pronouncing letters a to e.

Practice the French alphabet, hear and repeat letters, and use mouth shapes and tongue position to master tricky letters and the accent aigu rule.

Practice spelling six French names, such as Jade, Yves, Jean, Gaëlle, Xavier, and Zoé, while learning pronunciation and how to use accent aigu, grave, and circonflex in name spelling.

Learn how to ask and spell French family names in context, practicing with common names like Martin, Lefebvre, Rousseau, and Bourgeois through a hotel receptionist scenario.

Learn to ask for help in Paris by saying 'je suis perdu,' use polite phrases like excusez-moi and s'il vous plaît, and locate Sacré-Cœur in Montmartre via metro ligne 12.

Explore Paris geography and arrondissements with landmarks like the Louvre, Sacré-Cœur, Notre-Dame, and the Seine, plus Paris vocabulary and counting from twenty to forty-nine.

Explore the alphabet of Paris with themed vocabulary and landmarks, from amour to zoo de Vincennes, using illustrated prompts by Marion Billet to reinforce daily French.

Learn to count from twenty to forty-nine in French with correct liaison pronunciation. Explore saying your age in French with j'ai vingt ans and j'ai vingt-et-un ans.

Learn the French verb avoir, including conjugation, pronunciation, possession and age uses, common expressions, and examples like j'ai, tu as, il a, with focus on liaisons and elisions.

Learn how to ask and answer about nationality in French, covering informal and formal forms, masculine and feminine endings, and pronunciation rules with examples like français, française, mexicain, mexicaine.

Review French nationalities and gender forms with celebrity examples, then tackle an eight-flag exercise to identify countries and adjectives like écossais and thaïlandais.

Explore the Mona Lisa, painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506, famed for its enigmatic smile and gaze, and practice French through a Parisian dialogue about the Louvre.

Join a native teacher as they correct episode 3 exercises on avoir and être, practice conjugations, subject pronouns, and feminine nationality adjectives, plus online pronunciation.

Practice the French reverse alphabet through a humorous Philippe Catherine song to review and master the pronunciation of the French alphabet.

Engage in hangman to review Paris words with jeu du pendu and practice French letter pronunciation while learning la tour Eiffel, le musée du Louvre, le métro, and la Seine.

Discover popular French WhatsApp stickers and phrases, such as j'ai froid, j'ai faim, mon dieu, and iconic Paris imagery, and preview hotel and travel vocabulary in the next lesson.

Learn essential hotel survival phrases in French, including reservations, check-in and check-out, asking for the key, room options, reporting issues, wifi password, breakfast times, and other common hotel interactions.

Discover how French professions have no gender and master feminine forms. Build essential vocabulary for occupations such as pompier, pompière, astronaute, ouvrière, pilote, and more.

Examine how clichés die hard in French workplaces, learn vocabulary for professions like secrétaire, infirmier, assistant maternelle, and ingénieur informatique, and discuss gender distribution with deux sur dix.

Analyze how to infer media type from the first seconds, and learn key terms for beginners—consignes, quoi, qui, où—while identifying publicité, extrait, documentaire, chanson, j'adore by Philippe Catherine.

Practice listening to the Philippe Catherine song J'adore and decide whether occupation words appear in the lyrics, learning French profession vocabulary like institutrices, puéricultrices, boulangers, infirmières, and more.

Explore the masculine and feminine forms of French professions, using the song Luxor j'adore as a guide, and practice identifying gendered job terms.

Complete with the métiers de la chanson, practice masculine, feminine, singular, and plural forms, and challenge stereotypes in French for beginners. Next, learn to conjugate more than 3000 French verbs.

Master the masculine and feminine forms of French professions, adding an accented e for feminine endings and noting pronunciation. Explore many examples like avocat/avocate, boulanger/boulangère, serveur/serveuse, and more.

Continue learning numbers in French from cinquante to soixante-neuf, review how to say numbers aloud, and practice forms like cinquante-deux and quarante-neuf.

Learn how to conjugate -er verbs in French, practice matching meanings to pictures, and complete missing subject forms for common verbs like arriver, donner, parler, penser, trouver, and chercher.

Discover how to pronounce first-group -er verbs in French, form the base by dropping -er, and apply liaison and nasal on sounds with verbs like demander, habiter, étudier.

Learn to ask and answer qu'est-ce que tu fais dans la vie? in French, using casual and formal forms, with common professions from the lecture.

Trace the love story of Édith Piaf and Marcel Serdant, a long-distance romance that unfolds from Paris to New York, ending with a plane crash and Piaf's Hymne à l'amour.

Students listen to authentic footage where children answer what they want to do later and compile a list of professions such as vétérinaire, policier, ministre, archéologue, and chanteuse d'opéra.

Practice forming masculine and feminine forms of French professions, from dancer and chanteur to avocat and boulanger, and note pronunciation cues for feminine endings.

Practice present-tense er verbs and endings in e, repeat with me, and apply pronunciation rules for tu es, vous ez, and je déteste ending e.

Master the present indicative conjugation of -er verbs with je, tu, il, nous, vous, elles endings, including mangeons, and the pronunciation note for verbs like manger and voyager.

Conjugate the present indicative of nager in French with a simple et-ending rule; form je nage, tu nages, il nage, elle nage, nous nageons, vous nagez, ils nagent, elles nagent.

Spot the mistakes in French verb endings by examining er conjugations, especially the correct forms nous parlons and vous parlez, and learn to pronounce il parle and elle parle.

Explore practical French through WhatsApp episode 4 stickers. Practice phrases like je travaille, je suis artiste, et qu'est-ce que tu fais dans la vie, with la vie en rose references.

Master survival French for finding your way in the city by learning phrases to ask directions, how to go to places, and ask for a city map when lost.