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All 185 lessons⚙️ Advanced Subjunctive Uses
Master all contexts requiring the subjunctive including after superlatives doubt expressions and in independent clauses.
⚙️ The French Alphabet & Pronunciation
Learn the French alphabet accents and the key pronunciation rules that make French sound different from English.
⚙️ Regular -IR and -RE Verbs
Expand beyond -ER verbs to conjugate regular -IR and -RE verbs in the present tense.
⚙️ The Subjunctive Mood (le Subjonctif)
Learn when and how to use the subjunctive mood after expressions of doubt emotion wish and necessity.
📖 Greetings and Polite Words
Everyday greetings and polite words to start any conversation.
📖 Numbers
Count from zero to one million.
📖 Ordinal Numbers and Fractions
Ordinal numbers and basic fractions.
📖 Quantities and Statistics
Words for measurement and data.
💬 Greetings and Introductions
Simple greetings and introducing yourself.
💬 Greetings and Introductions
Friendlier greetings and introductions.
💬 Small Talk and Conversation
Casual conversation and catching up.
💬 Formal and Professional Communication
Phrases for formal emails and meetings.
📝 Talking About Yourself
Simple sentences to describe yourself.
📝 Talking About Yourself
Describing yourself with more detail.
📝 Talking About Yourself
Describing your background and views.
📝 Talking About Yourself
Nuanced self-description with clauses.
📖 Shapes
Learn the names of 2D and 3D shapes in French.
📖 Fruits
Learn the names of common and tropical fruits in French.
📝 Common Questions
Indirect and embedded questions.
📝 Common Questions
More complex everyday questions.
📝 Common Questions
Everyday questions with more detail.
📝 Common Questions
Useful everyday questions.
💬 Negotiation and Persuasion
Phrases for bargaining and convincing.
💬 Expressing Opinions and Debating
Sharing and defending views.
💬 Politeness and Courtesy
More polite expressions for daily life.
💬 Politeness and Courtesy
Basic polite words for everyday use.
📖 Politics and International Affairs
Words for politics and diplomacy.
📖 Nature and Environment
The natural world and environmental words.
📖 Time and Calendar
Units of time parts of the day and the days of the week.
📖 Numbers and Time
Count from zero to one thousand and learn basic time words.
⚙️ The Conditional Tense
Form and use the present and past conditional to express hypothetical situations polite requests and reported speech.
⚙️ The Passé Composé (Past Tense)
Form the most common French past tense using avoir or être as auxiliary plus the past participle.
⚙️ Nouns & Gender (le/la)
Understand that all French nouns are masculine or feminine and learn the rules and patterns for determining gender.
⚙️ Complex Conditional Structures
Analyse mixed conditionals double conditionals and the full range of si clause patterns in sophisticated French.
⚙️ Nominalization & Advanced Sentence Structure
Transform verbal and adjectival constructions into noun phrases to achieve the dense formal style of written French.
⚙️ Definite & Indefinite Articles
Master the four definite articles (le la les l') and indefinite articles (un une des) and when to use each.
⚙️ The Imparfait (Imperfect Past)
Use the imparfait to describe past habits ongoing states and background descriptions.
⚙️ Relative Pronouns – qui que dont où
Use the relative pronouns qui que dont and où to link clauses and avoid repetition.
📖 Family and Relationships
Core words for family members and relationships.
📖 Family and Relatives
Extended family and relatives beyond the immediate household.
📖 Government and Society
Words for politics law and society.
📖 Law and Justice
Words for courts and the legal system.
💬 Asking for Help and Directions
Asking for help and finding your way.
💬 Asking for Help and Directions
Getting help and directions in more detail.
💬 Polite Requests and Formal Situations
Courteous and semi-formal interactions.
💬 Diplomacy and Nuance
Phrases for tactful and careful speech.
📝 Daily Routines
Sentences about daily habits.
📝 Daily Routines
Daily habits with time words.
📝 Daily Routines
Habits with frequency words.
📝 Daily Routines
Routines with subordinate clauses.
📖 Vegetables
Learn the names of everyday vegetables in French.
📖 Technology
Learn everyday technology and device words in French.
📝 Likes and Dislikes
Refined taste with reasons.
📝 Likes and Dislikes
Nuanced preferences.
📝 Likes and Dislikes
Talking about preferences.
📝 Likes and Dislikes
Expressing what you like and dislike.
💬 Abstract Discussion and Argument
Phrases for reasoning and debate.
💬 Complaints and Resolving Issues
Raising and solving problems politely.
💬 Restaurant and Shopping
Ordering and shopping with more detail.
💬 Restaurant and Shopping
Ordering food and shopping basics.
📖 Science and Research
Words for science and inquiry.
📖 Business and Economy
Words for trade money and the economy.
📖 Food and Cooking
Meals ingredients and kitchen words.
📖 Colors
The most common colors in daily use.
⚙️ Reflexive Verbs
Conjugate and use reflexive verbs in all tenses and understand the difference between reflexive and non-reflexive meanings.
⚙️ Possessive Adjectives
Express ownership using mon/ma/mes ton/ta/tes son/sa/ses notre/nos votre/vos leur/leurs.
⚙️ Subject Pronouns & the Verb être
Learn the French subject pronouns and fully conjugate the essential irregular verb être (to be) in the present tense.
⚙️ Discourse & Argumentation in French
Build cohesive arguments using advanced connectors thesis structures and rhetorical devices in written and spoken French.
⚙️ The Literary Tenses – Passé Simple & Subjonctif Imparfait
Recognize and use the passé simple and imperfect subjunctive essential for reading classical and literary French texts.
⚙️ The Verb avoir & Basic Sentences
Conjugate avoir (to have) and use it to form basic sentences including age expressions and descriptions.
⚙️ Prepositions & Contractions (à de en)
Master the most essential French prepositions à de and en and their contractions au/aux and du/des.
⚙️ The Passive Voice
Form the passive voice in French and understand when to use it and how to express the agent.
📖 Body Parts
Main parts of the human body.
📖 House and Furniture
Rooms and common items in the home.
📖 Personality and Character
Adjectives that describe people.
📖 Philosophy and Ethics
Words for abstract and moral thought.
💬 Making Plans and Invitations
Inviting friends and making simple plans.
💬 Making Plans and Invitations
Arranging to meet and inviting people.
💬 Giving Advice and Suggestions
Recommending and reassuring.
💬 Job Interviews and Career
Phrases for interviews and job hunting.
📝 Past Experiences
Simple sentences in the past tense.
📝 Past Experiences
Past tense with more detail.
📝 Past Experiences
Past tenses with more nuance.
📝 Past Experiences
Narrative past with relative clauses.
📖 Daily Activities
Learn common daily routine words in French.
📖 Holidays
Learn the names of holidays and celebrations in French.
📝 Future Plans
Formal future and intentions.
📝 Future Plans
Intentions and conditional futures.
📝 Future Plans
Talking about future plans.
📝 Future Plans
Simple sentences about the future.
💬 Presentations and Public Speaking
Phrases for presenting to an audience.
💬 Making Arrangements
Setting up meetings and coordinating.
💬 At the Doctor and Pharmacy
Describing symptoms and getting treatment.
💬 At the Doctor and Pharmacy
Telling a doctor how you feel.
📖 Economics and Finance
Advanced economic vocabulary.
📖 Health and Wellbeing
Words about staying healthy in body and mind.
📖 Clothing and Accessories
Everyday clothes and things you wear.
📖 Food and Restaurants
Common foods drinks and dining words.
⚙️ Reported Speech (le Discours Indirect)
Transform direct speech into reported speech applying the correct sequence of tenses and pronoun shifts.
⚙️ The Near Future – aller + infinitive
Form the near future tense using the conjugated verb aller followed by an infinitive.
⚙️ Regular -ER Verbs (Present Tense)
Learn the most common verb group in French — regular -ER verbs — and conjugate them in the present tense.
⚙️ Advanced Pronoun Usage & Order
Master pronoun stacking y and en with other pronouns emphatic pronouns and pronouns in complex clause structures.
⚙️ French Syntax – Word Order & Inversion
Control word order in formal texts including inversion after quoted speech after adverbs and in complex sentences.
⚙️ Adjectives – Agreement & Placement
Understand how French adjectives must agree in gender and number with their noun and where they are placed.
⚙️ Demonstrative Adjectives – ce/cet/cette/ces
Point out specific nouns using this/that/these/those with the correct demonstrative adjective form.
⚙️ The Pluperfect (le Plus-que-parfait)
Use the pluperfect to describe an action completed before another past action in narration and reported speech.
📖 Travel and Directions
Words for getting around and asking directions.
📖 City and Places
Common places around town.
📖 Media and News
Words for news and the media.
📖 Literature and Rhetoric
Words for literary craft and analysis.
💬 Opinions and Simple Conversation
Sharing simple opinions in conversation.
💬 Opinions and Conversation
Sharing views in conversation.
💬 At Work and Meetings
Talking at work and in meetings.
💬 Disagreeing Tactfully
Phrases for polite disagreement.
📝 Comparisons
Comparing people and things.
📝 Comparisons
Comparing with than.
📝 Comparisons
Superlatives and complex comparisons.
📝 Comparisons
Sophisticated comparisons.
📖 Plants
Learn the names of plants and plant parts in French.
📖 Nature
Learn words for natural landscapes and features in French.
📝 Conditionals
Counterfactual and unreal past.
📝 Conditionals
Real and unreal conditionals.
📝 Conditionals
Real conditional sentences.
📝 Conditionals
Simple sentences using if.
💬 Speculation and Hypotheticals
Phrases for guessing and supposing.
💬 On the Phone Formal
Formal and business phone calls.
💬 Problems and Emergencies
Handling problems and emergencies.
💬 Problems and Emergencies
What to say when something goes wrong.
📖 Medicine and Health
Advanced medical vocabulary.
📖 Arts and Culture
Words for the arts and cultural life.
📖 Travel and Transport
Ways to get around and travel words.
📖 Shopping and Bargaining
Useful words for markets and bargaining.
⚙️ Indefinite Pronouns & Adjectives
Use indefinite expressions such as on tout chaque certains plusieurs quelques and n'importe.
⚙️ Adverbs – Formation & Placement
Form French adverbs from adjectives using -ment and learn the placement rules for different adverb types.
⚙️ Negation – ne…pas
Form negative sentences in French using ne…pas and its variations ne…jamais ne…plus and ne…rien.
⚙️ Register & Style – Written vs Spoken French
Understand the differences between formal informal and literary registers and adapt your language accordingly.
⚙️ French Rhetoric & Figures of Speech
Recognize and use key rhetorical figures including anaphora antithesis hyperbole litotes irony and euphemism.
⚙️ Numbers & Basic Quantities
Learn French cardinal numbers 1–100 ordinal numbers and key quantity expressions.
⚙️ Essential Irregular Verbs – aller venir faire pouvoir vouloir
Conjugate the five most important irregular verbs in French and use them in common expressions.
⚙️ Cause Result & Opposition Connectors
Connect ideas using because therefore however although and a full range of logical connectors in French.
📖 Banking and Finance
Everyday banking and money vocabulary.
📖 Health and Symptoms
Words for illnesses and the body when unwell.
📖 Travel and Tourism
Words for trips and tourism.
📖 Environment and Climate
Words for climate and sustainability.
💬 On the Phone
Basic phrases for phone calls.
💬 On the Phone
Everyday phone conversations.
💬 Travel and Booking
Booking travel and going through transit.
💬 Emphasis and Clarification
Phrases for stressing and clarifying points.
📝 Giving Reasons
Explaining causes with because.
📝 Giving Reasons
Explaining causes and purposes.
📝 Giving Reasons
Causes purposes and results.
📝 Giving Reasons
Complex causation and consequence.
📖 Transportation
Learn words for vehicles and transportation in French.
📝 Hopes and Wishes
Refined hopes and counterfactual wishes.
📝 Hopes and Wishes
Hopes wishes and hypotheticals.
📝 Hopes and Wishes
Expressing hopes and wishes.
📝 Hopes and Wishes
Simple hopes and wishes.
💬 Idiomatic Expressions
Common French idioms for natural speech.
💬 Describing and Explaining
Explaining ideas and clarifying.
💬 Travel and Hotel
Booking and staying with more confidence.
💬 Travel and Hotel
Getting around and staying at a hotel.
📖 Psychology and the Mind
Words for the mind and behavior.
📖 Food and Dining
Words for cooking and eating out.
📖 Emotions and Feelings
Words to describe how you feel.
📖 Weather and Seasons
Weather conditions and the four seasons.
⚙️ Gerund & Present Participle (le Gérondif)
Form and use the gerund (en + present participle) to express simultaneous actions means and conditions.
⚙️ Object Pronouns – Direct & Indirect
Replace nouns with direct object pronouns (me te le la nous vous les) and indirect object pronouns.
⚙️ Question Formation
Ask questions in French using intonation est-ce que inversion and question words (qui quoi où quand comment pourquoi).
⚙️ Advanced Text Analysis & Translation
Analyse authentic French texts identify grammatical and stylistic features and develop precision in French-English translation.
📖 Animals and Birds
Common animals and birds.
📖 Work and Workplace
Words for the office and working life.
📖 Relationships and Social Life
Words for friendships and social ties.
📖 Business and Management
Words for leading and running organizations.
📖 Technology and Innovation
Words for modern technology.
📖 Technology and Internet
Words for computers and the internet.
📖 Education and School
Words for studying and the classroom.
📖 Health and Doctor Visits
Words for clinics pharmacies and feeling unwell.
📖 Work and Professions
Common jobs and workplace words.
📖 Technology and Communication
Everyday digital and phone vocabulary.
📖 Career and Workplace
Words for careers and professional life.
📖 Proverbs and Idioms
Common French proverbs and their meanings.
📖 Formal and Academic Connectors
Linking words for formal writing and speech.
📖 Ideas and Abstract Concepts
Common abstract nouns for discussion.
📖 Sports and Hobbies
Free time activities and sports.
📖 Cultural Context and Social Norms
Customs etiquette and social vocabulary.