French Classes – Winter 2026 (online & on-site)

No prerequisite

This class is designed for complete beginners.  The emphasis of French 101 is on very basic conversational skills. You will be able to introduce yourself and others, talk about leisure activities, learn the French alphabet, count from 0 to 100.

Grammar skills : nationality adjectives; definite articles: le, la, les, l‘; prepositions before names of cities and countries; the interrogative adjective quel. (Edito 1 – dossiers 0, 1)

Please order Edito 1 – textbook ISBN :   9782278104468; workbook ISBN : 9782278104529

Wednesdays (Jan. 21 – March 18), 5:15 pm – 7:15 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite: A1-1 or equivalent

Designed for students who have completed 101 or those who have taken French before but believe they have forgotten everything.  The focus of this class emphasizes basic conversational skills. You will be able to ask for and state your place of residence, express your tastes, introduce your family, talk about your family.

Grammar skills : Definite and indefinite articles, present tense of -ER verbs (aimer, detester), possessive adjectives, gender of professions (Edito 1 – dossier 2).

Please order Edito 1 – textbook ISBN :   9782278104468; workbook ISBN : 9782278104529

Thursdays (Jan 22 – March 19), 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite A1-1 or equivalent

Designed for students who have completed 101 or those who have taken French before but believe they have forgotten everything.  The focus of this class emphasizes basic conversational skills. You will be able to ask for and state your place of residence, express your tastes, introduce your family, talk about your family.

Grammar skills : Definite and indefinite articles, present tense of -ER verbs (aimer, detester), possessive adjectives, gender of professions (Edito 1 – dossier 2)

Please order Edito 1 – textbook ISBN :   9782278104468; workbook ISBN : 9782278104529

Saturdays (Jan. 10 – March 7), 2pm – 4 pm, 18 hours, in-person: on-site meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite A1-3 or equivalent

You will be able to talk about family, describe and characterizing a person or people, talk about our tastes, talk about ourselves (our profession, our passions, our dreams), talk about our activities, explain a health problem

Grammar skills : possessive adjectives (2) singular and plural, masculine, feminine, and plural forms of adjectives, present tense of -er verbs (summary), verb ‘faire’ + du / de la / de l’ / des, stressed pronouns, ‘Avoir mal à’ + body parts (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 3).

Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Tuesdays (Jan 20 – March 17 ), 5:15 pm – 7;15 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite A1-4 or equivalent

You will be able to talk about past events, talk about recent experiences or plans, understand biographical information, describe a person physically, talk about past and current events, give advice.

Grammar skills : passé composé (1), recent past and near future, verb ‘dire’ in the present, time markers (1), passé composé (2), Être + adjective, avoir + noun + adjective, the adjective ‘même’, Mais (but), imperative (2) (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 5).

Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Tuesdays (Jan 20 – March 17 ), 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite A1-4 or equivalent

You will be able to talk about past events, talk about recent experiences or plans, understand biographical information, describe a person physically, talk about past and current events, give advice.

Grammar skills: passé composé (1), the recent past and the near future, verb ‘dire’ in the present, time markers (1), passé composé (2), Être + adjective, avoir + noun + adjective, the adjective ‘même’, Mais (but), imperative (2) (Cosmopolite 1 – dossier 5).

Please order Cosmopolite 1 – textbook isbn: 978-2014015973, workbook isbn: 978-2014015980

Thursdays (Jan 15 – March 12), 6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, on-site : in-person meetings.

$270.00Add to cart

Prerequisite Cosmopolite A1-5 or equivalent

Talk about one’s background, express one’s intention to do something, talk about one’s likes and preferences, make a suggestion, accept or refuse an outing.

Grammar Skills: Past tense (passé composé): formation, use, regular and irregular past participles, negative sentences: ne…rien / personne / jamais / plus, the placement of negation; time markers: il y a, pendant, depuis.

Please order Edito 2: textbook ISBN : 9782278104109; workbook ISBN : 9782278104123

Mondays (Jan. 19 – March 16), 6 pm – 8 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite A2-2 or equivalent

You will be able to describe a home, rent a home, express disappointment, console, give reassurance.

Grammar skills: Relative pronouns qui, que, où; comparison (with adverbs, adjectives, verbs, nouns); expressing condition. (Edito 2 – dossier 3)

Please order Edito 2: textbook ISBN : 9782278104109; workbook ISBN : 9782278104123

Thursdays (Jan 22 – March 19), 5:15 pm – 7:15 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite: A2-7 or equivalent

You will be able to describ a trip, give your opinion about a trip, say how you travel, indicate a schedule, report speech, tell a story in the past, talk about a book

Grammar skills: Nominalization, object pronouns (summary), future (review): near future, simple future, indirect speech in the present, narration in the past: imperfect, passé composé, pluperfect (introduction), placement of object pronouns (review) (Inspire 2 – dossier 8).

Please order Inspire 2: textbook isbn: 9782015135793; workbook isbn: 9782015135809

Wednesdays (Jan 12 – March 9), 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite: B1-1 courses or equivalent

You will be able to respond to a professional email, express disagreement, express dissatisfaction in a waiting line, talk about ways of getting to know people, write the questions for an interview.

Grammar skills: asking questions, expression of necessity and obligation, expressing feelings (Edito 3 – dossier 2) 

Please order Edito 3 – textbook ISBN : 9782278108619; workbook ISBN : 9782278108602;

Mondays (Jan 12 – March 9), 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 hours, online: zoom meetings.

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Prerequisite B1-7 or equivalent

You will learn to make reproaches and hypotheses, understand legal articles, express doubt, participate in a debate, make a proposal, understand informal/familiar register

Grammar skills: hypothesis (3): si + pluperfect + past conditional, the past conditional to express regret or reproach, elisions in sentences in the familiar register, double object pronouns, indefinite adjectives and pronouns, the subjunctive (3) to express doubt (Inspire 3 : dossier 8)

Please order Inspire 3 – textbook isbn: 9782017133452; workbook isbn: 9782017133469

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Prerequisite B1-8 or equivalent

You will be able to talk about misleading commercial practices, use complaint-related vocabulary, write a letter of complaint.

Grammar skills: Impersonal verbs, double pronominalization, expressing manner: gerund and sans + infinitive, (Entre Nous 3 – dossier 5)

Please order Entre Nous 3; textbook EAN: 978-8416273249

Wednesdays (Jan 14 – March 11), 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 18 hours, on-site: in-person meetings.

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