
Advance your French from intermediate to advanced by mastering the four CEFR skills—listening, reading, writing, and speaking—through 100% French lessons with subtitles.
Embrace total immersion by learning French from a French teacher who speaks only in French, with subtitles available for grammar videos if you need them.
Targets learners with at least elementary level (A1) who understand the present tense. Exclude complete beginners while supporting DELF A2, B1, or B2 study, travel, and communication for pleasure.
Master the past in French through practical grammar and activities, with written and oral practice, vocabulary enrichment, and improved pronunciation in a video-based course aligned to the CEFR.
Follow the course in a logical progression and complete videos in order. Rewatch as needed, pause to understand the rule, rely on on-screen information, and enable subtitles to aid memorization.
Choose your study pace based on your level and time, from 1–2 sections per week for beginners to 1 section per day for intermediate or advanced learners.
Bring a paper and pencil to take notes and write dictation sentences, and a pair of headphones to hear the sounds; ask questions about grammar, vocabulary, or exercises as needed.
Learn to talk about a memory in French using the imparfait to describe the past. Introduce yourself and your life while recalling personal memories in this intermediate practice.
Learn to form the imparfait from the present nous form, removing ons and adding endings, with examples like manger, commencer, étudier, payer, and three practice exercises.
Explore how to use the imperfect to talk about the past in different situations—durations without start or end, memories, habits, and descriptions—and practice with a verb-choice conjugation exercise.
Enhance intermediate French listening by practicing listening comprehension: listen to the document twice and then answer the quiz.
Explore ten key expressions to tell a memory in French, boosting intermediate level speaking. Narrate memories with clear phrasing using these expressions to enhance your intermediate French communication.
Practice a French dictation using the phrase un souvenir, helping intermediate learners strengthen their command of the language.
Learn how to form and use the passé composé, the second and most important past tense, to recount events that happened during a trip.
Master the passé composé by choosing the correct auxiliary: être for certain verbs (including pronominal ones) and avoir for others, aided by a mnemonic system and practice exercises.
Learn to form the passé composé across three verb groups: regular -er and -ir patterns with é and i, plus common irregulars for the 3rd group, with practice exercises.
Learn the passé composé agreement rules: past participles act as adjectives; use être for subject agreement and avoir for no agreement, with pronominal verbs and COD, plus exercises.
This lecture explains a passé composé case: six movement verbs use avoir when a COD follows; learn to recognize a COD with qui or quoi and practice avoir vs être.
Master the passé composé to express completed past actions, sequences, repetitions, and life changes, with examples like moving from Paris to Toulouse and a practice exercise.
Practice listening comprehension by hearing the document twice and then answering the quiz. Explore the discovery of the metro through an intermediate French listening activity.
Improve your intermediate French vocabulary on the theme of experience and strengthen language skills for better conversation and comprehension.
Practice French through the dictée "une expérience" designed for intermediate learners. The course aims to practice and perfect French for intermediate learners.
Discover how the imparfait and passé composé work together, with news-based examples, to decide when to use each tense and master their combined use.
Learn how to combine passé-composé and imparfait in one sentence, with rules for context and action, plus cause and consequence, and three conjugation exercises.
Improve your French listening comprehension by listening to a document twice and answering a quiz, exploring a strange burglary as the listening topic.
Build intermediate French vocabulary with the faits-divers, mastering terms used in news and everyday incidents to enhance comprehension and communication.
Practice and perfect your French through a dictation exercise focused on understanding a fait-divers, at an intermediate level.
Master French pronunciation by distinguishing and producing the sounds [e] and [ɛ], tailored for intermediate learners.
Learn to use time expressions to precisely describe a past event in French, with an introduction to recounting a romantic encounter.
Explore five French time expressions il y a, depuis, pendant, pour, en, and learn when to use them with past and present tenses through concrete examples and practice.
Enhance your listening comprehension in intermediate French by listening to a document twice and then answering a quiz centered on a romantic encounter.
Enhance your intermediate French vocabulary with terms for la rencontre amoureuse, aligned with the course focus on romantic encounter language.
Practice and perfect your French through a dictation exercise focused on a romantic encounter, suitable for intermediate learners.
Learn to discuss your professional experience in a France job interview by forming and using the plus-que-parfait.
Learn the plus-que-parfait, formed like passé composé with avoir or être and a past participle, conjugating in imparfait, noting agreement with être for pronominal verbs and movement/state verbs, plus practice.
Explore how the plus-que-parfait is used, typically with the passé composé, review its formation, and practice with exercises selecting the correct answer.
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Enhance listening comprehension in French for an intermediate level by listening to the document twice and then answering a quiz about mon premier stage.
Enhance your intermediate French vocabulary with work-related terms and expressions, helping you discuss jobs, tasks, and the workplace with confidence.
Practice and perfect your French through a dictation activity focused on professional experiences. Explore dictation experiences tied to professional contexts at the intermediate level.
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If you have reached this page, you probably want to learn French, not English! Bonne nouvelle, this course is 100% in French, mostly with videos, created and presented by Anne Le Grand, an experienced native teacher.
Whatever your objective or level in French, mastering the past tenses is vital to communicate.
In this course you will learn how to use the 3 main past tenses in French: the imperfect, the passé-composé and the plus-que-parfait. You will be able to evoke memories, speak about work experiences and understand news stories, or just express past events accurately.
Master each tense individually in context and learn how to use them together in this French immersive course.
Feel free to watch the introduction section and the free video previews to see how the course is structured.
Each section covers a specific use of the past in French and allows you to easily develop the four basic linguistic abilities: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Introduction: I will present you the key points of the section in a short video (free preview)
Grammar lecture: learn and practice a specific grammar function with talking head videos and quizzes, to speed up and consolidate the process of learning French grammar
Listening comprehension lecture: listen to an audio recording focusing on the section's grammar point and validate your understanding with a quiz.
Reading comprehension lecture: read a text focusing on the section's grammar point and validate your understanding with a quiz.
Vocabulary lecture: Learn 10 key expressions you can easily include in your spoken French like a native speaker, followed by a quiz.
Writing lecture (dictation): boost your writing skills and learn ready to use French structures.
In Section 5, you will learn how to differentiate and pronounce the sounds [e] and [ɛ] (é/ è) via an entertaining phonetic video and exercises.