All 45 French lessons — A0 → A2

The complete beginner French course: 36 lessons from absolute zero to a solid CEFR A1, then nine A2 lessons on the past, the imperfect and the future. Every lesson is free and needs no account.

Part 0 · Absolute Start

Lesson 1: Greetings, Alphabet & Silent Letters — You will greet people, say goodbye, say thank you and please, and spell any word out loud in French. You will also…
Lesson 2: Vowels, Accents & How Are You? — You will ask and answer How are you? in both formal and informal French. You will also learn the five French vowel…
Lesson 3: Introducing Yourself (tu vs vous) — You will introduce yourself, ask another person's name, and greet someone you have just met. You will also learn when…
Lesson 4: Countries, Nationalities & the French R — You will ask where someone is from and answer for yourself. You will name countries, use the right nationality for a…
Lesson 5: Numbers 0-20 & Telling Your Age — You will count from 0 to 20, ask someone's age and give your own. You will also untangle the two sounds that confuse…
Lesson 6: Spelling Your Name, Liaison & Rhythm — You will spell your name out loud in French and ask how a word is written. You will also learn the two ways French…

Part 1 · Core Grammar & Daily Life

Lesson 7: I Am, You Are (etre) — You will learn the nine French subject pronouns and the whole verb ÊTRE (to be). You will be able to say who you are,…
Lesson 8: Gender & Articles (un, une, le, la) — You will learn that every French noun is either masculine or feminine, and that the little word in front of it (un,…
Lesson 9: I Have & Telling Your Age (avoir) — You will learn the whole verb AVOIR (to have) and the most important difference from English and Urdu: in French you…
Lesson 10: Family & Possessive Adjectives — You will learn family vocabulary with its article, and the possessive adjectives mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes, son, sa,…
Lesson 11: Adjective Agreement — You will learn that every French adjective must match the noun in gender and number — grand, grande, grands, grandes.…
Lesson 12: C'est & Il y a - Describing Your Home — You will learn c'est and ce sont, il y a, the negative il n'y a pas de, and the question est-ce qu'il y a… ? You will…

Part 2 · Everyday Actions

Lesson 13: Regular -ER Verbs — You will learn the biggest verb family in French: regular -ER verbs. You will take a verb like parler, remove -ER, and…
Lesson 14: Saying No (ne... pas) — You will learn how to make any French sentence negative by wrapping the verb with ne … pas. You will learn where the…
Lesson 15: Asking Questions — You will learn the three beginner ways to turn a statement into a question: raise your voice, use est-ce que, or use…
Lesson 16: Places & Transport (aller) — You will learn the verb aller (to go), which is irregular, and use it to talk about going to places in town. You will…
Lesson 17: Weather, Sport & Hobbies (faire) — You will learn the verb faire (to do / to make) and use it for the weather, for sport and for hobbies. You will learn…
Lesson 18: Reflexive Verbs & Daily Routine — You will learn reflexive verbs — verbs where you do the action to yourself: I wash myself, I get myself up. You will…

Part 3 · Food, Shopping & Going Out

Lesson 19: Food, Drinks & the Partitive — You will name the most common foods and drinks in French, always with their article. You will learn the partitive…
Lesson 20: At the Restaurant — You will order food and drinks like a polite French person with je voudrais. You will understand the whole restaurant…
Lesson 21: Shopping, Quantities & Clothes — You will shop in French: ask if a shop has something, ask the price, say it is too expensive and buy it. You will use…
Lesson 22: Directions & Prepositions of Place — You will say exactly where things are with sur, sous, dans, devant, derrière, à côté de and the other prepositions of…
Lesson 23: Time, Days, Months & Dates — You will tell the time in French, ask a stranger for the time, and say the whole clock: et quart, et demie, moins le…
Lesson 24: This & That (ce, cet, cette, ces) — You will point at things in French with ce, cet, cette and ces, and understand that French does not separate 'this'…

Part 4 · Past & Future

Lesson 25: Past Tense 1 - with avoir — You will talk about things you did in the past using the passé composé. You will learn the helper verb avoir, build…
Lesson 26: Past Tense 2 - with etre — You will learn the small group of verbs that use être in the past, why the past participle changes for male/female…
Lesson 27: Near Future (aller + verb) — You will talk about the near future with aller + infinitive. You will be able to say what you are going to do tonight,…
Lesson 28: Can, Want, Must (pouvoir, vouloir, devoir) — You will learn the three verbs that let you say can, want and must. You will be able to ask permission, make polite…
Lesson 29: Giving Instructions (imperative) — You will give instructions and orders in French using the imperative. You will learn its three forms, why -ER verbs…
Lesson 30: Body & Health - At the Doctor — You will name the parts of the body, say where it hurts with avoir mal à, describe common health problems, and survive…

Part 5 · Confidence & Consolidation

Lesson 31: Travel - Trains, Tickets & Hotels — You will buy a train or plane ticket in French and ask the time and the price. You will check into a hotel and ask for…
Lesson 32: Work & School — You will say what your job is and where you work. You will also talk about school, university, your subjects and your…
Lesson 33: Talking About Myself & Writing — You will introduce yourself in 8 to 12 sentences using everything you have learned. You will write a short formal…
Lesson 34: Joining Sentences (et, mais, parce que) — You will join two short sentences into one longer, natural sentence. You will say why (parce que), what for (pour),…
Lesson 35: Phone Calls & Invitations — You will answer the phone in French, ask for a person, leave a message and book an appointment. You will invite a…
Lesson 36: Final Revision - Everything Together — You will revise the whole A1 system in one place: all the tables, the ten pronunciation rules, the thirty survival…

A2 · Part 1 — Talking About the Past

Lesson 37: Passé composé with avoir — You will talk about things that already happened. You will build the passé composé with avoir, turn any regular verb…
Lesson 38: Passé composé with être — A small group of French verbs builds the past with être, not avoir. You will learn the whole group, make the past…
Lesson 39: Time words & telling a story — You will place past events in time and join them into a real story. You will use hier, avant-hier, la semaine…

A2 · Part 2 — Describing the Past

Lesson 40: L'imparfait — how things were — The passé composé tells what happened. The imperfect tells how things were — what you used to do, what something…
Lesson 41: Imparfait vs passé composé — This is the single most useful contrast in French past narration. One tense paints the scene, the other moves the…
Lesson 42: Telling a longer story — You will now build a real story: open a scene, move it forward with events, add a complication, and close it. You will…

A2 · Part 3 — Plans & the Future

Lesson 43: Le futur proche — je vais + verbe — You will talk about what you are going to do — tonight, tomorrow, next week. The near future is the easiest tense in…
Lesson 44: Inviting, accepting, refusing — You will invite someone, accept, refuse without being rude, and settle on a day, a time and a place. This is the…
Lesson 45: Le futur simple — je parlerai — You will talk about the more distant future — next year, in ten years, one day. You will build the simple future from…

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