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Cultural Workshops

Marcel Proust Workshop

Workshops - Ateliers
Specialized Courses are designed to complement standard language levels by focusing on specific skills, targeted goals, and consolidation.
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Special Classes

French Pronunciation Workshop

Workshops - Ateliers
Specialized Courses are designed to complement standard language levels by focusing on specific skills, targeted goals, and consolidation.

Marcel Proust Workshop

Workshops - Ateliers
Specialized Courses are designed to complement standard language levels by focusing on specific skills, targeted goals, and consolidation.
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Mastering French Adjectives — Possessive & Qualifying

Specialized Courses
Specialized Courses are designed to complement standard language levels by focusing on specific skills, targeted goals, and consolidation.
Pace: Once a Week
A1 - Beginner

A1.1 Beginner French Intensive

Full Course

This course is for complete beginners or learners who have completed A1.0 and want to gain real confidence in French.

By the end of A1.1, you’ll be able to introduce yourself, spell your name, greet others naturally, count from 0 to 99, and talk about where you’re from. You’ll share basic personal information, express likes and dislikes, and hold short, practical conversations about everyday topics.

You’ll also learn to introduce someone else, fill out simple forms, name countries and cities, and find your way around a city — building the solid foundations needed to communicate in French.


Pace: Twice a week

A1.2 Beginner French Intensive

Full Course

 This class is designed for false beginners who already have basic foundations in French.

By the end of A1.2, you’ll be able to locate places on a map, talk about transportation, accommodation, and travel situations, and ask questions to get to know people along the way. You’ll describe your family and others, discuss your likes and dislikes, hobbies, work, passions, and future dreams, and explain a simple health issue.

Prerequisite: A1.1 or placement test.


Pace: Twice a week

A1.4 Beginner French Intensive

Full Course

It’s time to reflect and look ahead. A1.4 helps you talk about your past memories, recent experiences, and future plans with confidence.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to share childhood memories, describe life experiences, understand a biographical profile, and describe someone’s physical appearance. You’ll also learn to give simple advice and talk about travel plans and practical needs.

This is the final class of the A1 Beginner level.

Prerequisite: A1.3 or placement test.


Pace: Twice a week

Brush-Up Beginner A1.3 -A1.4 Saturdays

Review

It’s time to reflect and look ahead. A1.4 helps you talk about your past memories, recent experiences, and future plans with confidence.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to share childhood memories, describe life experiences, understand a biographical profile, and describe someone’s physical appearance. You’ll also learn to give simple advice and talk about travel plans and practical needs.

This is the final class of the A1 Beginner level.

Prerequisite: A1.3 or placement test.


Pace: Once a Week
A2 - Intermediate

A2.1 Light Consolidation Advanced Beginner French

Partial Course


From A2.1 to A2.4 : completed within 100 to 120 hours (4 sessions of once-a-week classes).
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need. Also include conversation class.


Pace: Once a Week

Brush-Up French A2.1-A2.2 Saturday

Review


From A2.1 to A2.4 : completed within 100 to 120 hours (4 sessions of once-a-week classes).
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need. Also include conversation class.


Pace: Once a Week

Intermediate Conversation A2-B1

Conversation Course

This class helps you develop clearer, more nuanced expression in French.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to express and justify opinions, talk about works of art, explain causes and consequences, and present a country, a city, and its inhabitants. You’ll also learn how to express wishes and quantities accurately.

Prerequisite: B1 Part 1 or level assessment.


Pace: Once a Week
B1 - Independent

Intermediate Conversation A2-B1

Conversation Course

This class helps you develop clearer, more nuanced expression in French.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to express and justify opinions, talk about works of art, explain causes and consequences, and present a country, a city, and its inhabitants. You’ll also learn how to express wishes and quantities accurately.

Prerequisite: B1 Part 1 or level assessment.


Pace: Once a Week
B2 - Advanced

B2.1 Advanced French Consolidation-Monday

Review

From B2 Part 1.1 to B2.4: completed within 100 to 120 hours (4 sessions of once-a-week classes). Students are able to communicate with a degree of spontaneity and ease so that a conversation with a native speaker does not involve tension for either party. It is also the level of language proficiency that most French universities require from undergraduate foreign students. Also include Conversation classes.


Pace: Once a Week
C1 - Proficient

C1.2 Autonomous French Consolidation-Saturday

Review
From C1 Autonomous:  Students are able to express themselves spontaneously and fluently in social, professional or academic situations without any apparent difficulty in finding the right words.


Pace: Once a Week

Order This Course

$140.00 USD

Code: SU26-Intermediate-Conversation-A2-B1-Wednesday
Weekly conversations at the intermediate level (A2-B1) on topics from history to art, from current events to literature and more through a variety of materials with a somewhat equal opportunity to contribute and learn from each other and improve language capacity.

ONSITE, taught by Valerie Duval

7.5 hours in 5 weeks | 1.5 hours a week | 1 class of 1.5 hours per week.

We recommend that students get a specific textbook for this class: Communication progressive du français - intermédiaire A2-B1, published by Clé international

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