French lessons
Explore 100 free French lessons from A1 to B2. Learn vocabulary, verb forms, and grammar through complete examples and recall practice.
- Everyday colors — A1 vocabulary: Describe familiar objects while making color words agree.
- Numbers from zero to one hundred — A1 vocabulary: Handle prices, ages, addresses, and quantities aloud.
- Close family — A1 vocabulary: Introduce relatives and show who belongs to whom.
- Kitchen tools and tableware — A1 vocabulary: Set a table and choose the tool a simple recipe needs.
- Basic food — A1 vocabulary: Build simple meals with articles that match quantity and meaning.
- Drinks and ordering — A1 vocabulary: Order common drinks and use partitives naturally.
- Rooms at home — A1 vocabulary: Describe a home through rooms and their positions.
- Everyday clothes — A1 vocabulary: Say what someone wears and make descriptions agree.
- Body parts — A1 vocabulary: Name body parts in descriptions, instructions, and symptoms.
- Weather and temperature — A1 vocabulary: Understand a forecast and describe the conditions outside.
- Days of the week — A1 vocabulary: Place routines and appointments across a French week.
- Months and seasons — A1 vocabulary: Place birthdays, courses, travel, and weather within the year.
- Clock time — A1 vocabulary: Tell the time and say when an event begins.
- Daily routine — A1 vocabulary: Move through a normal day with reflexive and ordinary verbs.
- Places in town — A1 vocabulary: Locate essential services and landmarks in an unfamiliar town.
- Transport — A1 vocabulary: Choose a mode of travel and its natural preposition.
- Travel essentials — A1 vocabulary: Prepare documents, luggage, tickets, and a hotel booking.
- Classroom essentials — A1 vocabulary: Follow instructions and name the tools used to learn.
- Animals and pets — A1 vocabulary: Describe familiar animals through actions and visible traits.
- Greetings and politeness — A1 vocabulary: Open conversations, ask courteously, apologize, and say goodbye.
- Être in the present — A1 verb: Build identity, description, location, and state with six essential forms.
- Avoir in the present — A1 verb: Express possession, age, sensations, and everyday needs.
- Aller in the present — A1 verb: Move toward destinations and prepare the near-future construction.
- Faire in the present — A1 verb: Handle doing, making, weather, sport, and fixed daily expressions.
- Vouloir in the present — A1 verb: State wants, offer choices, and make requests at different politeness levels.
- Pouvoir in the present — A1 verb: Express ability, permission, possibility, and tactful requests.
- Parler: regular -er present — A1 verb: Master the ending pattern used by the largest French verb group.
- Finir: regular -ir present — A1 verb: Use the productive -is, -issons pattern for completed actions.
- Vendre: regular -re present — A1 verb: Use one clear model for regular verbs ending in -re.
- Prendre in the present — A1 verb: Use six high-frequency forms for taking, having, and transport.
- Un, une, le, and la — A1 grammar: Store each noun with the article that reveals its grammatical gender.
- Building French plurals — A1 grammar: Change the noun phrase even when the plural ending stays silent.
- Adjective agreement — A1 grammar: Match every description to the noun it modifies.
- Subject pronouns stay visible — A1 grammar: Use pronouns to identify person even when the verb ending is silent.
- Building basic questions — A1 grammar: Choose intonation, est-ce que, or inversion for the situation.
- Shopping and money — A2 vocabulary: Ask about price, size, payment, and what happens after the sale.
- At a restaurant — A2 vocabulary: Read the menu, order each course, and settle the bill politely.
- Giving directions — A2 vocabulary: Turn streets and landmarks into a sequence someone can follow.
- Checking into a hotel — A2 vocabulary: Confirm a booking and solve common room problems at reception.
- At the airport — A2 vocabulary: Follow check-in, gate information, delay, and boarding announcements.
- Health and the pharmacy — A2 vocabulary: Describe a symptom, its duration, and the medicine you need.
- Work and the office — A2 vocabulary: Connect meetings, teams, schedules, projects, reports, and clients.
- Hobbies and sports — A2 vocabulary: Match free-time activities with jouer, faire, or their own verb.
- Feelings and reactions — A2 vocabulary: Describe a current feeling, a trait, or a change of emotional state.
- Household chores — A2 vocabulary: Remember housework as natural action-and-object combinations.
- Phones and technology — A2 vocabulary: Send files, manage passwords, charge devices, and follow links.
- Nature and landscapes — A2 vocabulary: Describe a route through woods, water, mountains, and coast.
- Se lever: present tense — A2 verb: Build a daily-routine verb with a reflexive pronoun before every form.
- Venir: present tense — A2 verb: Use a two-stem irregular verb for origins, arrivals, and recent actions.
- Devoir: present tense — A2 verb: Express obligation and probability without confusing the singular stems.
- Savoir: present tense — A2 verb: Say what you know and what you know how to do.
- Être in the passé composé — A2 verb: Use avoir as the auxiliary even though the main verb is être.
- Avoir in the passé composé — A2 verb: Combine the auxiliary avoir with the past participle eu.
- Aller in the passé composé — A2 verb: Choose être as auxiliary and make allé agree with the subject.
- Faire in the passé composé — A2 verb: Use the irregular participle fait for completed activities and actions.
- Regular -er verbs in the passé composé — A2 verb: Turn a completed -er action into avoir plus an -é participle.
- Regular -ir verbs in the passé composé — A2 verb: Build a completed regular -ir action with the participle ending -i.
- C’est or il est? — A2 grammar: Choose between a presenting frame and a pronoun followed by an adjective or profession.
- Partitives after negation and quantity — A2 grammar: Change du, de la, de l’, and des to de after a true negation or quantity expression.
- Direct object pronouns — A2 grammar: Replace a known object with le, la, l’, or les before the conjugated verb.
- Indirect object pronouns — A2 grammar: Replace à + person with lui or leur before the verb.
- Pronominal verb word order — A2 grammar: Keep the reflexive pronoun tied to its verb in statements, negatives, and infinitive phrases.
- Comparisons with plus, moins, and aussi — A2 grammar: Compare qualities with que and quantities with plus de or moins de.
- Negation beyond ne…pas — A2 grammar: Replace pas with jamais, plus, rien, or personne to say never, no longer, nothing, or nobody.
- À, en, au, aux, de, and chez — A2 grammar: Choose place words from destination, origin, gender, and whether the destination is a person or business.
- Environment and climate — B1 vocabulary: Discuss problems, individual actions, and public environmental choices.
- News and media literacy — B1 vocabulary: Describe a source, verify a claim, and separate reporting from opinion.
- Education and learning — B1 vocabulary: Talk about courses, assessment, skills, and study strategies.
- Housing and renting — B1 vocabulary: Discuss a lease, charges, repairs, neighbors, and moving.
- Relationships and social support — B1 vocabulary: Describe trust, disagreement, compromise, and dependable support.
- Public services and paperwork — B1 vocabulary: Navigate appointments, forms, proof, deadlines, and official requests.
- Être in the imparfait — B1 verb: Describe past states, settings, and repeated conditions with a single irregular stem.
- Avoir in the imparfait — B1 verb: Describe what someone had, felt, or repeatedly experienced.
- Faire in the imparfait — B1 verb: Describe weather, habitual activities, and ongoing actions in the past.
- Aller in the future simple — B1 verb: Use the irregular ir- stem for future destinations and developments.
- Pouvoir in the future simple — B1 verb: Promise future ability or possibility with the stem pourr-.
- Vouloir in the present conditional — B1 verb: Make requests and wishes more tactful with voudr-.
- Devoir in the present conditional — B1 verb: Give advice, express expectation, or state a conditional obligation.
- Passé composé or imparfait? — B1 grammar: Layer a bounded event over its ongoing background.
- Qui and que in relative clauses — B1 grammar: Join two statements by tracking whether the missing element is subject or object.
- The pronouns y and en — B1 grammar: Replace à + thing or a place with y, and de + thing or a quantity with en.
- Future after quand — B1 grammar: Use future tense on both sides when a future time clause begins with quand, lorsque, or dès que.
- Real conditions with si — B1 grammar: Use present after si and future, present, or imperative in the result.
- Conditional for tact and distance — B1 grammar: Use conditional forms to soften a request, suggestion, or disagreement.
- Cause and consequence — B1 grammar: Link reasons and results with connectors that match register and structure.
- The passive voice — B1 grammar: Promote the receiver of an action with être plus an agreeing past participle.
- Order of two object pronouns — B1 grammar: Place me/te/se/nous/vous before le/la/les, then lui/leur, y, and en.
- Celui, celle, ceux, and celles — B1 grammar: Replace a known noun while preserving its gender and number, then identify it with de, qui, or que.
- Debate and evidence — B2 vocabulary: State a position, qualify it, counter an objection, and demand support.
- Business and economic change — B2 vocabulary: Discuss revenue, costs, hiring, investment, and market pressure precisely.
- Venir in the present subjunctive — B2 verb: Use vienn- except in nous and vous after a trigger of need, doubt, or emotion.
- Faire in the present subjunctive — B2 verb: Use fass- for four persons and fassions/fassiez for nous and vous.
- Prendre in the plus-que-parfait — B2 verb: Place a completed action before another past reference point.
- Core subjunctive triggers — B2 grammar: Recognize necessity, will, emotion, doubt, and concession before choosing the mood.
- Indicative or subjunctive? — B2 grammar: Change mood when certainty, assertion, or existence becomes doubted, denied, or sought.
- The past conditional — B2 grammar: Describe an unreal past result, regret, or unconfirmed report with conditional avoir/être plus participle.
- Reported speech in a past frame — B2 grammar: Shift present, future, and completed statements relative to a past reporting verb.
- Dont and lequel — B2 grammar: Connect clauses when the missing phrase begins with de or another preposition.
- Concession and opposition — B2 grammar: Acknowledge one fact while showing that it does not prevent a contrasting result.
- Emphasis and register — B2 grammar: Use dislocation and c’est…qui/que to control focus without losing pronoun agreement.