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Free online courseFrench lessons A1

Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 13 minutes

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Speak French from day one: a free A1 course to master pronunciation, basics, and everyday phrases—ideal for travel, work, and a confidence boost.

In this free course, learn about

  • Core A1 vocabulary: greetings, useful phrases, family, shopping, food, clothes, body parts
  • French alphabet & key pronunciation points, incl. the French “r”
  • Gender & articles: definite/indefinite, partitive (du/de la/de l’/des), and zero article
  • Introduce yourself and give practical personal info (name, age, nationality, etc.)
  • Numbers (1–20+), dates, months, seasons, and telling the time
  • Ask questions: intonation, est-ce que, and interrogatives (qui, quel, quand, quoi)
  • Present tense of regular verbs (-er, -ir) and common verbs (aimer/adorer/détester)
  • 3rd-group verb basics (re/oir) and high-frequency verbs for everyday conversation
  • Present continuous with “être en train de” and the recent past “venir de”
  • Future: futur proche vs futur simple; plus commands with the impératif
  • Adverbs of frequency and adjective placement rules
  • Pronoms toniques (moi, toi, lui…) and agreement with possessive/demonstrative adjectives
  • Express existence/there is: “il y a”, plus “voici/voilà”, “c’est/il est” distinctions
  • Negation patterns (ne…pas etc.) and recommended ways to practice/learn them

Course Description

Start speaking French with confidence, even if you are an absolute beginner. This free A1-level online course is designed to help you move from knowing nothing to handling simple, real-life conversations with clarity and ease. You will build a solid foundation step by step, so French starts to feel logical: how words sound, how sentences are formed, and how to express what you need in everyday situations.

Instead of learning isolated facts, you will develop practical communication skills. You will get comfortable with essential pronunciation points, including tricky sounds, and you will learn to recognize patterns that make reading and speaking much easier. Along the way, you will understand how French works at a beginner level: gender and articles, question forms, useful verb groups, polite requests, time and dates, and the kind of grammar that quickly turns vocabulary into sentences you can actually use.

The course also focuses on the French you will hear and say most often. You will practice introductions, talking about family and daily routines, shopping, asking for directions, describing people, discussing weather, food, clothes, places, and common situations that come up when traveling or meeting French speakers. By reinforcing frequent structures and high-value phrases, you will be able to create your own messages rather than relying on memorized lines.

To keep your progress steady, the lessons are supported by practice activities that encourage repetition, recall, and active use. That means you will not only understand French when you see it, but also begin to produce it with better accuracy. If your goal is to prepare for a trip, support your studies, or open new professional opportunities by adding a language skill, this beginner-friendly French course gives you a strong, practical starting point.

Course content

  • Video class: Learn 15 French Words and Expressions for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS - A1 [with Alicia] 08m
  • Video class: Let's Learn French Articles! Is it Masculine or Feminine? - A1 [with Alicia] 09m
  • Video class: Learn How to Introduce Yourself in French! - For ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS - A1 [with Alicia] 09m
  • Video class: Discover our FREE Trial and Get Access to Extensive French Learning Resources #learnfrench 03m
  • Exercise: What is one of the benefits of the free trial at lingoni.com as described in the text?
  • Video class: Learn the French ABC! [with Alicia] 09m
  • Video class: Learn How to Pronounce the French r - A1 [with Alicia] 08m
  • Video class: Learn Regular Verbs in French - er - A1 [with Alicia] 10m
  • Video class: The Verbs adorer, aimer, and détester in French! - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: Learn French Numbers from 1-20 - A1 [with Alicia] 04m
  • Video class: Learn How to Ask Questions in French - A1 [with Alicia] 08m
  • Exercise: How can you ask a question in French using 'est-ce que'?
  • Video class: Learn How to Use the Present Continuous in French - A1 [with Alicia] 04m
  • Exercise: What fixed expression is used in French to construct the present continuous which conveys the sense of 'in the process of'?
  • Video class: Learn French Adverbs of Frequency - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: MAJOR Lingoni NEWS 02m
  • Exercise: What new feature does the updated lingoni.com website now offer to its users?
  • Exercise: What is one of the new features of the updated lingoni.com website?
  • Video class: Learn How to Tell Time in French! [with Alicia] 09m
  • Video class: French Regular Verbs - ir - A1 [with Alicia] 07m
  • Video class: Learn Useful Phrases for Beginners - A1 [with Alicia] 07m
  • Video class: Learn How to Talk about Family Members in French - A1 [with Alicia] 10m
  • Video class: Let's Talk About Shops and Going Shopping in French - A1 [with Alicia] 07m
  • Video class: Où est - Asking for and Giving Directions in French - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (21) - Body Parts - A1 10m
  • Exercise: Which of the following French body parts is considered feminine?
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (22) - Describing people - A1 08m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (23) - Seasons and Months - A1 [2020 Version] 09m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (24) - Clothes - A1 11m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (25) - Food - A1 12m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (28) - Verbs of the 3rd Group: re/oir - A1 12m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (29) - Impératif - A1 09m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (30) - Pronoms toniques - moi - toi - lui - A1 06m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (31) - Conditionnel de Politesse - A1 10m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (32) - Articles Partitifs (du, de l', de) - A1 08m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (33) - L'article zéro - A1 07m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (34) - Interrogative Pronouns - Qui - Quel - Quand - Quoi - A1 07m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (35) - Position des adjectifs - A1 08m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (36) - Les informations pratiques sur soi - A1 13m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (37) - Articles indéfinis (un, une, des) - A1 09m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (38) - Le complément du nom - de - A1 07m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (39) - Adjectifs possessifs et démonstratifs - A1 19m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (40) - il y a - A1 07m
  • Video class: Learn to talk about the weather in French! - il caille, il neige, il pleut - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: lingoni FRENCH (44) - Numbers - Date - Time - A1 [2021 VERSION] 10m
  • Video class: voici - voilà - il y a - c'est - il est - A1 [with Alicia] 07m
  • Video class: Nationalities in French - A1 [with Alicia] 11m
  • Video class: Futur Proche vs. Futur Simple - A1 [with Alicia] 10m
  • Video class: Passé récent in French - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: Top 10 French Verbs for Beginners - A1/A2 [with Néri] 08m
  • Video class: Top 20 Places in French - A1/A2 08m
  • Video class: French for Beginners: Complete French A1 Review - Part 1 [with Alicia] 04m
  • Exercise: Which expression would you use to ask someone how they are doing in French?
  • Video class: French for Beginners: Complete French A1 Review - Part 2 - A1 [with Alicia] 12m
  • Video class: C'est magnifique tout ce vocabulaire ! - A1 [with Céline] 08m
  • Video class: French A1 Crash Course LIVE - Lingoni French 1h40m
  • Video class: Expressions with être, avoir, faire and prendre - A1 [with Céline] 04m
  • Video class: mais - ou - alors - donc - Learn how to use linking words in French! - A1 [with Céline] 03m
  • Video class: 25 useful phrases to practice il y a - A1 [with Céline] 04m
  • Video class: Moi aussi, moi non plus, moi si, moi non ! - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Video class: Learn how to use il y a in your daily conversations! - A1 [with Alicia] 05m
  • Exercise: What grammatical structure does the French expression 'Il y a' represent?
  • Video class: 10 Verbs That Will Help for Basic Conversation in French - A1 [with Alicia] 05m
  • Video class: 10 Ways to Negate Sentences in French - For Beginners - A1 [with Alicia] 06m
  • Exercise: In the excerpt discussed in the lesson, what is a recommended method for learning French negation forms?

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Lok

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Really nice course, explains thing very well, interesting to learn and thank you for posting this!

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Amal manjhi

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Its really had a great experience to learn French with lingoni teaching method very simple and without any difficulty explaining in Lucid manner.

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stephen madtha

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very good ,easy to understand, Merci beaucoup

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Adythio Niramoyo

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Great materials, but sometimes lack on support system on videos and percentage progress.. it needs to be fixed. Thank's.

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