French Language course for beginners

Learn the French alphabet and its pronunciation differences from English, practice pronouncing letters to spell French words, and repeat the alphabet to build accuracy.

Explore how gender affects French nouns, articles and adjectives, and how endings indicate masculine or feminine, with attention to exceptions and practice with gendered forms.

Master essential french greetings and polite phrases, including bonjour, bonsoir, bonne nuit, au revoir, à bientôt, à demain, and introductions, with pronunciation tips and liaison.

Identify French punctuation marks, including the full stop, semi-colon, interrogation, exclamation mark, and hyphen, and learn how the hyphen connects two words.

Explore how French professions switch between masculine and feminine forms, applying rules to form the feminine by adding e and noting pronunciation differences with several examples.

Explore how masculine and feminine forms of French professions are formed, including rules, common endings, and key examples like actor, actress, and director, with noted exceptions.

Learn how to express nationalities in French, using masculine and feminine forms, with attention to pronunciation; the lecture provides a table of country names and nationality endings with examples.

Master the conjugation of être, the be verb in French, and its pronunciations, including forms for I am, you are, he or she is, and singular formal you.

Learn to form French sentences with the verb être using nationalities and professions, applying correct article use, capitalization, adjectives, and proper subject pronoun agreement.

Learn to introduce yourself in french using the reflexive verb se présenter, with examples showing masculine and feminine forms for student and nationality, and practice crafting your own self-introduction.

Learn to conjugate regular -er verbs in the present tense by forming a stem and adding endings for je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils, noting irregular aller.

Learn to conjugate -er verbs in the present tense and form simple sentences such as 'elle regarde la télévision' and 'ils écoutent la radio' with adverbs like 'chaque jour'.

Discover how -ger and -cer verbs change spelling to keep pronunciation in French: add an e after g in nous form and a cedilla to c before a, o, u.

Learn the second group of -ir verbs: remove the -ir to form the stem and add endings for je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, and ils/elles; note irregulars.

Explore how to conjugate -ir verbs in the present tense by removing the -ir ending and adding standard endings, with examples using he and they to form simple sentences.

Learn how the French possessive adjectives, or adjectifs possessifs, express belonging and agree with the noun's gender and number, including forms for vowels and plurals.

Learn how French numbers from 21 to 100 are formed by combining twenty with unit digits, and observe patterns for 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, and 91.

Discover how French contracted articles form with prepositions, including à, de, en, and the definite articles, with practical examples and pronunciation guidance.

Learn the French verb faire: master its conjugation and its use in weather, hobbies, household chores, sports, and shopping, with common phrases.

Master irregular French verbs such as partir, sortir, mentir, sentir, dormir, and servir using a two-stem method for singular and plural forms, with endings, pronunciation tips, and examples.

Explore French prepositions through practical examples that cover location, time, duration, and purpose, and learn to frame sentences with correct tense.

Explore how French prepositions contract with definite articles to form phrases like autour du lac and à droite de la pâtisserie, describing locations such as near the supermarket.

Learn to tell the time in French, mastering both 12-hour and 24-hour formats, with minutes, morning and evening cues, and two ways to express 15, 30, and 45 minutes.

Learn to use French demonstrative adjectives with gender and number, mastering ce, cet, cette, and ces through simple examples like this book, this tree, and these houses.

Learn how French country prepositions vary by gender—masculine use au, feminine use en, plural use aux—plus six exceptions ending in e, like Mozambique and Belize.

Learn to express origin using French prepositions du, de, des, and de l' before vowels, for masculine, feminine, plural countries, and use de for cities, with noted exceptions.

Learn to conjugate boire, croire, and voir in the present tense for singular subject pronouns, with pronunciation notes and practical examples such as a pre-dinner drink.

Conjugate connaître and savoir and learn their usage differences for people versus information, with practical examples like knowing someone versus knowing how to do something.

Master pronominal (reflexive) verbs by learning how subjects perform actions on themselves using reflexive pronouns and standard conjugation, with daily activity examples like waking up and washing.

Learn to express daily routines in French using les verbes pronominaux (reflexive verbs), with example sentences describing waking up, getting up, and other quotidien activities.

Learn how to form the French l'impératif to give orders, advice, or instructions without a subject, using present tense conjugation and reflexive verbs, with negation rules and common exceptions.

Learn to conjugate the three irregular French modal verbs pouvoir, vouloir et devoir, using their infinitive stems and simple phrases to express ability, desire, and obligation.

Learn how to ask for directions in French and how to tell directions, with common verbs, questions, and phrases for navigation.

Explore the futur proche and the passé récent, learn how to form near-future and recent-past in French using present tense plus infinitive, with negation and questions.

Master the passé composé by using the correct auxiliary verb and past participle, with proper agreement, to express completed actions in the past in French.

Build essential French clothing vocabulary, covering garments, accessories, fabrics, and patterns. Explore examples such as jeans, shirts, jackets, dresses, shoes, glasses, and how to describe sizes and materials.