A rigorous A1 French course designed for native English speakers. 8 modules tackle the unique challenges English speakers face: French pronunciation, grammatical gender, verb conjugation, partitive articles, and the passé composé vs imparfait distinction. Rich visual explanations, real cultural context, and voice conversation scenarios throughout.
French phonetics for English speakers — the sounds, accents, liaison, and pronunciation rules that unlock everything else. Front-loaded because you can't progress without being able to make the sounds.
Introducing yourself with être and avoir, numbers 0-100 and dates, countries and nationalities — your first encounter with gender agreement in a controlled context.
The #1 stumbling block for English speakers gets a full module. Grammatical gender, articles (le/la/l'/les, un/une/des), adjective agreement, possessives and demonstratives — the system that underlies all of French.
Être and avoir in depth, regular -ER verbs (90% of all French verbs), essential irregular verbs (aller, faire, prendre, pouvoir, vouloir), negation (ne...pas) and all three question methods.
Reflexive verbs for daily routines, time/days/months, home and family vocabulary, food and meals — including the partitive article (du/de la/de l'/des) which has no English equivalent.
Directions and city places, transport vocabulary and the imperative mood, the near future (aller + infinitive) for making plans — all grounded in realistic Parisian scenarios.
The hardest module: passé composé with avoir, passé composé with être (DR & MRS VANDERTRAMP), the imparfait, and crucially — when to use which. The passé composé vs imparfait distinction is unique to French.
Practical French for shopping and clothing, health vocabulary with avoir mal à, a complete A1 capstone review, and a roadmap to A2. Consolidates all 28 lessons into confident, real-world use.