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Build a solid foundation in French with a beginner-friendly learning path designed to get you understanding and speaking sooner than you expect. This free online course focuses on the essentials that make real conversations possible: clear pronunciation, practical grammar, and everyday vocabulary that you can reuse immediately. You will start with the French alphabet and the sound system, then train your ear and your mouth to handle features that often confuse learners, such as liaisons and the French r.
As you progress, you will gain confidence with useful greetings, counting, common expressions, and the building blocks of sentence structure. Step by step, you will learn how to talk about what exists with il y a, form yes/no questions naturally, and express yourself in the negative without falling into typical beginner traps. The course also emphasizes the verbs you truly need early on, including être, faire expressions, and high-frequency -er verbs, so you can describe routines, actions, and simple opinions with accuracy.
To help you go beyond memorization, the lessons highlight key distinctions that unlock comprehension, such as savoir versus connaître, along with pronunciation guidance for proper nouns and natural speech. You will also practice listening skills with targeted comprehension activities, including exercises on phrasal-verb meanings and common ways dates are expressed. If you want a structured, approachable way to start French, improve your accent, and build habits that support long-term fluency, this course gives you practical training you can apply in daily study and real situations.
Video class: French lesson #1 for beginners: French alphabet / French sounds / Definite
27m
Exercise: Which of the following reasons was mentioned for creating a new French language method?
Video class: Lec?on #2: Counting from one to 20 / parts of the body / Greetings
18m
Exercise: How is the number 10 pronounced in French when followed by a vowel?
Video class: French lesson #3 for beginners: Proper nouns in French / useful exclamations / Useful Adjectives
21m
Exercise: What is the French pronunciation for 'Miami'?
Video class: French lesson #4 for beginners: idiomatic words
17m
Video class: French lesson for beginners: Present tense of être
28m
Exercise: Understanding French Liaisons and Pronunciation
Video class: French lesson #7 for beginners: examples of the most useful -ER verbs in the present tense
18m
Exercise: What does the French verb 'fermer' mean?
Video class: French lesson #8 for beginners: more useful -er verbs
24m
Exercise: Which verb means 'to vacuum' in French?
Video class: French lesson: asking yes/no questions in French (secrets about questions in French)
40m
Exercise: What percentage of the time is the third, formal way of asking yes/no questions used in spoken French?
Video class: French I: Faire expressions in French (useful list)
34m
Exercise: What does the French verb 'faire' translate to in English?
Video class: French lesson: Il y a
06m
Exercise: How is 'there is/there are' expressed in French in fast speech?
Video class: Practice of French "r"
05m
Exercise: What is the key feature of pronouncing the French 'r' sound?
Video class: French lesson on savoir vs connaître (the secret no one knows)
13m
Exercise: What's the correct use of 'connaître' in French?
Video class: Negative form in French (details that make a difference)
21m
Exercise: What is a common mistake when learning French negative form?
Video class: Mistakes found in French books/methods part 2
08m
Exercise: What is a commonly misunderstood use of 'ne... pas' in French grammar according to the video?
Video class: Proper French: improve your writing skills
06m
Video class: Translation of phrasal verbs in French
15m
Video class: Listening comprehension exercise on phrasal verbs
04m
Video class: French listening comprehension exercise on dates
04m
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Course comments: French for beginners
angela saiyan
bonjour, comment va tu,kindly do you offer an attestation and certificate of enrolment please