Self-study French Classes

Sign up for our self-study French course (on any registration page). Language City is WASC-accredited, which means students in California & Hawaii can get credit for these classes.

Get ready for an exciting experience learning French at Language City. You will learn more than you can imagine, in an easy and fun way, with plenty of material to study in between lessons, and access to documents introducing you to French culture. Your teacher will be the former private English tutor of French President Chirac’s daughter & grandson, and has unparalleled skills in French & English. Students can be matched with a French penpal learning English as the year unfolds with an opportunity to email a native French-speaker and practice speaking on Skype with parental agreement. Click here to see what it is like inside a French class, and click here to meet your French teacher.

Free access to our complete beginners’ class:
Email us at contact@language-city.com to get free access to our beginners’ class. Enjoy our many French classes for beginners with various kinds of exercises (written & oral comprehension with video, along with teacher’s explanations).

Language City is a vendor with Sage Oak Charter School, iLead Charter schools, Inspire Charter schools, PCI, South Sutter Charter School, Ocean Grove Charter School, Sky Mountain Charter school, Connecting Waters Charter schools & Valley View Charter Prep. If you would like to recommend Language City as a vendor with your charter school, ask your vendor coordinator to contact us at contact@language-city.com to get you registered. Don’t register online when going through a charter school.

French IA Class – Information and Registration

Homeschoolers can get lifetime access the self-study course. Scroll down on our registration form below and select the self-study levels of your choice. Get $20 off for every referral. Email us for more information. California & Hawaii residents can get high school credit for our classes.
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Curriculum covered in French IA:

Prerequisites: none

• The use of “être” & “avoir”
• Adjectives to describe people & things (+ irregular adjectives)
• Parts of the body
• Counting up to 100
• Definite & indefinite articles
• How to use –er, -ir, -re and irregular verbs
• The negative form, including ne…jamais, ne…plus, ne…personne, ne… que
• The use of « de » or « d’ » after the negative form
• Nationalities
• The 3 ways of asking questions
• Demonstrative adjectives
• -ger / -cer / -yer verbs
• Prepositions of location
• ne + verb + jamais
• Faire expressions
• Use of the pronoun “on”
• Weather in French
• Prepositions before countries & cities
• Comparative
• Vouloir / pouvoir / prendre
• Questions words: où / quand / quoi / comment / pourquoi
• Near future
• How to tell time
• Possessive adjectives
• Venir de + infinitive
• C’est vs Il/elle est
• Locating people & things
• Il y a
• Nous vs on
• Stress pronouns
• Irregular -IR verbs
• Recent past
• Translation of ‘s

French IB Class – Information and Registration

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Curriculum covered in French IB (2^nd semester):

Prerequisites: mastering the most technical concepts covered in French IA

• Etre en train de + infinitive
• Pourquoi & comment
• avoir besoin de
• Imperative mood
• Negative constructions in the present the tense
• Quel(le)
• Work on infinitive constructions
• Tout
• Verb “rester”
• Mettre / boire / devoir
• -dre verbs + irregular verbs (mettre/boire)
• Translation of “all the” & “the whole”
• Direct & indirect object pronouns
• Pronouns y & en
• How to use “rester” & “manquer” beyond their basic use
• Passé composé of regular verbs : 1st, 2^nd & 3rd group
• Reflexive verbs in the present tense
• Contractions with « de »
• Adjectives used as nouns
• Useful idiomatic expressions
• Adjectives used as nouns

French IIA Class – Information and Registration

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Curriculum covered in French IIA:

Prerequisites: mastering the most technical concepts covered in French I.

• Present tense review
• New ER verbs in the present tense
• Savoir vs connaitre
• Imperative review
• Adjective placement & irregular adjectives
• Near future
• Avoir l’air
• Passé compose of irregular verbs
• Passé composé of être verbs
• Partitive article
• Negative expressions in passé composé
• Direct/Indirect Object pronouns in present, passé composé & imperative mood
• Simultaneous use of DO & IO pronouns in the present tense & near future
• Reflexive verbs present, imperative & passé compose
• Quel & lequel
• Imperfect
• Et si + imperfect
• PC vs imparfait
• ce que / ce qui / ce dont
• Depuis vs pendant
• lequel
• Useful conjunctions
• Il faut
• Use of “comme”
• New “faire” expressions
• Tu ferais mieux de / Tu n’as qu’à

French IIB Class – Information and Registration

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Curriculum covered in French IIB:

Prerequisites: mastering the most technical concepts covered up to French IIB.

• “Avoir beau + infinitive”
• Faillir + infinitive
• Future tense
• Plaire
• “acheter” & similar verb patterns
• Present of the conditional
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Comparative with nouns
• Superlative
• Verbs that use être & avoir in passé compsosé
• Possessive pronouns
• aller avec & sur le point de
• Comparative correlative
• Translation of “You’d better”: official rule & conversational translation
• Falloir
• Must / could / should
• Avoir l’habitude de / être impatient de
• Etre à + distance
• Au cas où
• -IR verbs conjugated like -er verbs
• New & useful reflexive verbs

French IIIA Class – Information and Registration

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Curriculum covered in French IIIA:

Prerequisites: mastering the most technical concepts covered up to French IIIA.

• Plus-que-parfait
• Present of the subjunctive (phenomenal lesson)
• Past conditional
• Si clauses
• Faire faire quelque chose à quelqu’un
• French idiomatic structures
• to let s.o do something
• Quitte à + infinitive
• Histoire de + infinitive
• Passé simple
• The tricky translation of the verbs “can” & “to mean”
• Lequel used with a preposition (à or de)
• Possessive pronouns used with “de” or “à”

French IIIB Class – Information and Registration

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Curriculum covered in French IIIB:

Prerequisites: mastering the most technical concepts covered up to French IIIB.

• Translation of the adverb “allegedly” & that strange conditional
• Futur antérieur
• Past subjunctive
• Prepositions “à” vs “de”
• French adverbs
• Must have / should have / could have
• The many expressions containing the word “coup”
• Se faire + past participle
• Gerund & present participle
• Translation of English phrasal verbs
• Tricky translation of the verb “to wish”