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.

Learn the French vowel system and pronunciation of key letter combinations, and master liaison and elision rules to link or drop consonants in speech.

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.

Explore what verbs are, their active and passive forms, and how they conjugate by person across present, past, and future tenses, including regular, irregular, and auxiliary verbs.

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 the verb avoir, its pronunciations and meanings, including I have, you have, he has, we have, vous avez, ils/elles ont, and the je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous forms.

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.

Conjugate regular -re verbs in the third group by removing -re and adding the standard endings for je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles, with pronunciation notes and examples like entendre.

Learn to conjugate common French verbs like attendre and entendre, and build simple sentences with direct objects and gender-aware nouns through example phrases.

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.

Explore French family vocabulary from great-grandparents to in-laws, with pronunciation notes and examples using aimer and possessive agreement.

Learn to frame questions in French using intonation, est-ce que, and inversion, with examples and common question words like who, what, where, when, and how many.

Explain how le pronom tonique works in French, highlighting forms like moi, toi, lui, nous, vous, eux/elles, and their use after prepositions such as avec lui.

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.

Learn how to name body parts in French. Explore simple pronunciation tips and common terms for eyes, cheeks, lips, shoulders, hands, fingers, legs, and back.

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

Explore French verb aller, mastering conjugations je vais, tu vas, il va, nous allons, vous allez, ils vont, and destination contractions like au restaurant and à l’université.

Master the French verb venir in the present tense and its subject-based conjugations, plus how to express origin with venir de and definite article contractions, with pronunciation tips.

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.

Master the difference between partir and sortir: partir expresses leaving to go somewhere with destination prepositions, while sortir means going out of a place with return implied.

Explore French prepositions and their usage with nouns and pronouns to express location, time, and duration, with examples like on, in front of, and since.

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.

Explore how French demonstrative adjectives point to a noun and agree in gender and number, using ce, cet, cette, and ces to distinguish masculine, feminine, singular, and plural.

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.

Explore a practical airport dialogue in French between two friends, emphasizing essential grammar, reading comprehension, and travel vocabulary such as boarding, takeoff, and landing.

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.

Understand how partitive articles express undetermined quantities before nouns in French, using masculine, feminine, and plural forms, with elision before vowels and examples like rice, water, ice cream, and pasta.

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.

Conjugate the French verbs prendre, apprendre, and comprendre by exploring irregular patterns, recognizing similar endings, and practicing singular and plural forms with clear pronunciation cues.

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.

practice a small dialogue in French to tell directions, with English equivalents provided to help reading and understanding for beginners.

Master the conjugation of mettre, admettre, permettre, and promettre, featuring verb endings for singular and plural subjects, pronunciation cues, and example phrases with appropriate prepositions.

Explore a beginner French dialogue for ordering in a restaurant, with essential vocabulary and phrases, plus notes on articles for food and drinks and how to ask for the bill.

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.

Discover how to conjugate l'imparfait, build its endings from the radical, and use it to describe past scenes, ongoing actions, and habitual past events.

Learn to invite, accept, and refuse invitations in French using practical phrases and sentence patterns, with examples for inviting people to activities and events.

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.

Explore complex French negation using ne pas, ne jamais, ne plus, and ne personne, with verb placement in statements and questions and examples like je ne veux rien.

Learn essential French house vocabulary, including rooms like salon and kitchen. Describe a home using gender- and number-agreeing adjectives.

Learn to describe pain and sickness in French using body parts with definite articles and prepositions, with medical vocabulary and a doctor-patient dialogue.

Describe weather in French using il fait with adjectives and degrés. Use il pleut, il neige, and il y a du vent to form simple activity sentences.