Absolute Beginner

This 9-month course is designed for absolute beginner adults with no prior knowledge of French. The course meets once a week for 30 weeks, October to June. The focus is on developing practical communication skills in real-life situations, integrating listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Adult group classes are for absolute beginners. If you have studied French for more than 90 hours, contact us for a placement test to join a DELF level group class.

October: Introduction & Basics

Get comfortable with basic introductions and classroom language.

• Week 1: Alphabet, greetings, basic classroom instructions

• Week 2: Introducing yourself (name, nationality, where you're from)

• Week 3: Numbers 1–31

• Week 4: Days of the week, months, and basic calendar expressions

  
  

November: Personal Information

Goal: Asking and answering questions about yourself and others.

• Week 5: Talking about age, birthday, and origin

• Week 6: Professions and simple family vocabulary

• Week 7: Talking about where you live, your address

• Week 8: Gender and articles (un/une, le/la), plural forms

  
  

January: Everyday Life

Talk about daily routines and simple activities.

• Week 9: Telling the time, parts of the day

• Week 10: Daily routine verbs (se lever, manger, travailler)

• Week 11: Days of the week, expressions of frequency

• Week 12: Present tense of regular -er verbs

February: Food and Drink

Ordering food, shopping, expressing preferences.

• Week 13: Food vocabulary, meals, typical French dishes

• Week 14: Ordering in a café or restaurant (menus, polite phrases)

• Week 15: Quantities, asking for prices, shopping at a market

• Week 16: Partitive articles (du, de la, des), expressing likes and dislikes

March: The Family and Describing People

Describing yourself and others (appearance & personality).

• Week 17: Family vocabulary and talking about relationships

• Week 18: Physical descriptions (height, hair, eyes, etc.)

• Week 19: Personality traits, basic adjectives

• Week 20: Agreement of adjectives, être and avoir revision

April: The City and Directions

Navigating a city, giving and asking for directions.

• Week 21: Places in the town (la poste, la banque, le marché)

• Week 22: Asking for and giving directions

• Week 23: Transport vocabulary, using "prendre," "aller"

• Week 24: Introduction to prepositions of place (sur, sous, à côté de)

  
  

May: Leisure and Hobbies

Talking about free-time activities.

• Week 25: Sports, music, reading, cinema

• Week 26: Talking about preferences (j’aime, je n’aime pas)

• Week 27: Inviting someone, accepting/refusing invitations

• Week 28: Faire and aller in the present tense

  
  

June: Past Tense Introduction

Talking about past events (very basic).

• Week 29: Introduction to passé composé with avoir (regular verbs)

• Week 30: Talking about what you did over the weekend