Course Outline

At Learn French With Alexa, we know that every learner's journey is unique—and that not everyone starts in the same place. That’s why our Complete French Course is structured to support you from the very first bonjour to full French proficiency.

Whether you're just starting out or brushing up, this self-guided course gives you full access from day one, so you can jump into any lesson that suits your level or goals.

Each lesson is packed with engaging video content and a wide range of resources to help you practise, review, and build your confidence as you go.

• 40 Core Lessons - From A1 to C2, each lesson is grouped into chapters for smooth navigation and covers the essential grammar points you need to master the French language.

• Step-by-Step Study Guide - A complete course guide to help you plan your learning journey, stay on track, and get the most out of every lesson.
• 120+ Interactive Exercise Videos - Practise what you've learned with engaging video activities—including dialogues, gap fills, dictations, and reading comprehension tasks.
• 230+ Grammar & Vocabulary Videos - Dive deeper into specific grammar rules, conjugation patterns, and vocabulary lists to reinforce and extend your knowledge.
• 1,000+ Downloadable Support Guides - Review and recap each lesson with printable PDFs that make revision simple and accessible anytime.
• 400+ Interactive Quizzes - Test your knowledge as you go, track your progress, and build confidence with quizzes tailored to each lesson.
• 100+ Audio Vocabulary & Conjugation Lists - Sharpen your listening and pronunciation skills with downloadable audio on key vocabulary and verb forms.
• Monthly Live Lessons with Alexa - Join Alexa live every month—and access a full replay catalogue of 200+ past sessions for extra support and practice.
• Level Progress Checks - At the end of each CEFR level, assess your readiness to move on with a structured checkpoint.
• Final Assessments + CPD Certification - Validate your learning with a final test at each level—and receive an official CPD-certified certificate, an internationally recognised qualification that marks your achievement and progress in French.
• Personalised Learner Dashboard - Access your subscription, view quiz results, and bookmark lessons—all from one easy-to-navigate account area.
• Dedicated Support Team - Get help when you need it from our friendly support team, always ready to assist with your learning journey.

Greetings & Introductions

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Kickstart your French journey by mastering the art of saying hello and introducing yourself—whether you’re meeting someone formally or chatting with friends.
• Build a strong foundation with essential vocabulary and get comfortable counting from 1 to 10.
• It’s your first step toward confident French conversations!

Weather, Seasons, Days, Numbers!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Give your greetings a fresh twist and take your small talk to the next level by learning how to describe the weather and seasons in French.
• Get to grips with the days of the week so you can confidently plan your schedule.
• Plus, sharpen your number skills up to 20, and start using ordinal numbers to bring clarity and precision to your conversations.

Feelings, Months, Dates!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Learn how to express how you feel, from heureux (happy) to fatigué (tired), and start making emotional connections in French.
• Discover the months of the year so you can talk about birthdays, holidays, and seasons with ease.
• You'll also learn how to talk about dates confidently—so you'll never miss an appointment again!
• And to top it all off, you'll build your number skills all the way up to 100, and even take your first steps towards 1000!

Alphabet, Pronunciation Power!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Lay the groundwork for clear and confident communication by mastering the French alphabet.
• Learn how to spell your name and other basic words, and unlock the secrets of French pronunciation by tackling common letter combinations.
• Start sounding more like a native, one syllable at a time!

Articles Demystified – Definite, Indefinite & Partitive!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Speak with accuracy and flair by learning when and how to use French articles.
• Understand definite articles to talk about specific things, get comfortable with indefinite articles for general items, and grasp the nuance of partitive articles to express “some” or “a bit of” something.
• Small words, big impact!

Subject Pronouns, Power Verbs & Describing Like a Pro!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Take control of your sentences with essential subject pronouns and two of French’s most powerful verbs: avoir (to have) and être (to be).
• Add colour to your communication by exploring adjective agreement and word order—start describing like a pro!

Describing Yourself & Others – Age, Colour, Connections!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Connect ideas smoothly with everyday French conjunctions, share personal details like your birthday and age, and bring your descriptions to life with colours and expanded vocabulary.
• Learn to describe yourself and others with confidence and style.

Doing, Playing & Talking About Time!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Master the essential verb faire (to do/make) and key expressions that go with it.
• Learn the difference between faire and jouer (to play) and build more natural sentences using common time expressions.
• Start talking about your activities and when you do them—all in French!

Going Places with Aller & Prepositions!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Get moving in French by learning to conjugate aller (to go) in the present tense.
• Use prepositions to describe locations and directions with ease.
• Whether you're heading to the park or describing where something is, you’ll be equipped to talk about movement and place confidently.

Unlocking French Tenses – Your Verb Roadmap!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Start navigating the world of French verbs by learning about infinitives, verb moods, and the three main verb groups.
• Build the foundation for all future verb work by mastering how to conjugate regular Group 1 and Group 2 verbs in the present tense.

Conquering Irregular Verbs – Essential Group 3!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Tackle the trickier but oh-so-important irregular Group 3 verbs and boost your fluency.
• Get to know impersonal verbs like il faut, and master the expression être en train de to describe actions in progress.
• You'll also learn the imperative mood to give simple, effective commands.

Saying "No" Simply – Mastering Basic Negations!

CEFR level A1 - niveau découverte (beginner)

Learning objectives

• Make your French more complete by learning how to say non!
• Master basic negation patterns in the present tense and flip affirmative sentences into negatives with ease—an essential step toward full expression.

Level Up Your Descriptions – Adjectives, Comparisons & Superlatives!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Refine your descriptive skills by revisiting how French adjectives work with nouns.
• Learn to compare things clearly with comparative structures, and take it further by forming simple superlatives—your vocabulary just got an upgrade!

Mine, Yours, This One – Possessive & Demonstrative Adjectives!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Say whose is whose with possessive adjectives and point things out clearly using demonstrative adjectives.
• Whether it’s my book or that bag over there, you’ll learn how to add clarity and ownership to your French.

Talking About the Past – Passé Composé Power!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Step into the past with confidence using the passé composé, one of the most important tenses in French.
• Learn to conjugate regular and irregular verbs and understand when to use avoir or être as your helping verb.

Asking Questions Like a Pro!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Go beyond yes or no!
• Learn the three main ways to ask questions in French—intonation, est-ce que, and inversion—and start having richer, more interactive conversations.

Describing Your Home – Vocabulary & Prepositions!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Build your vocabulary to describe the rooms and items in your home.
• Use essential prepositions to explain where things are—whether the chair is next to, under, or behind, you’ll be able to say it in French.

Plural Power – Mastering Irregular Nouns & Adjectives!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Tame the quirks of French plurals by identifying irregular forms in both nouns and adjectives.
• Speak and write with greater accuracy as you tackle one of the trickier bits of grammar with confidence.

Adding Detail – The World of Adverbs!

CEFR level A2 - niveau usuel (elementary)

Learning objectives

• Make your French more expressive and precise with adverbs!
• Learn how they modify verbs, adjectives, and even other adverbs, and understand their typical placement in sentences.
• Add nuance with ease!

Talking About What's Next – The Futur Proche!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Start expressing upcoming plans and intentions using the futur proche (near future).
• You’ll also learn how to form the participe présent (present participle) to describe simultaneous actions—a key step toward fluid storytelling and richer expression.

Planning Ahead – Mastering the Futur Simple!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Talk about future plans, dreams, and predictions with confidence using the futur simple.
• Learn how to conjugate regular and irregular verbs across all three groups, and begin expressing longer-term ideas with clarity and flair.

Actions on Yourself – Reflexive Verbs Unlocked!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Dive into daily routines and personal care with reflexive verbs.
• Learn how to conjugate them in the présent, futur proche, futur simple, and passé composé, and talk about what you do to yourself—from waking up to getting dressed.

Painting the Past – The Descriptive Imparfait!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Learn to set the scene and describe habits from the past using the imparfait.
• Understand how it contrasts with the passé composé, and start painting vivid pictures of memories, stories, and ongoing past events.

Connecting Your Sentences – Relative Pronouns!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Take your French to the next level by linking ideas more smoothly. Master simple relative pronouns like qui, que, quoi, dont, and où to create more complex, natural-sounding sentences and avoid repetition.

More Pronoun Power – Possessive, Demonstrative & Emphatic!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Get precise with possessive pronouns, point things out with demonstrative pronouns, and add emphasis where it counts using emphatic pronouns.

• These little words help you pack more meaning into every sentence.

The Target of Your Actions – Direct & Indirect Objects!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Clarify who is doing what to whom!
• Learn the difference between direct and indirect object pronouns, and how to place them correctly in different sentence structures.
• Speak and write more fluently and naturally.

Expressing Possibilities – The Conditionnel Présent!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Talk about what would happen in a given situation using the conditionnel présent.

• Learn to express politeness, possibilities, and hypothetical situations—along with how to translate modal verbs like could, should, and would.

Saying "No" with Flair – Complex Negations!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Go beyond ne…pas!

• Expand your toolbox with complex negations including double negatives, negative pronouns, and negations in compound tenses, reflexives, and imperatives.

• Say “no” like a native.

Comparing Like a Pro – Complex Comparatives & Superlatives!

CEFR level B1 - niveau seuil (intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Level up your comparison skills with more sophisticated comparative structures and learn how to express subtle differences in people, objects, and ideas.

• Master superlatives for when you want to say something’s the best or the most important!

The Subjunctive Unveiled – Part 1!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Enter the world of nuance with the subjunctive mood.
• Learn when and why it’s used, how to conjugate regular verbs, and discover common expressions and verbs that trigger the subjunctive.
• It’s time to express doubt, desire, and emotion like a pro.

Mastering the Subjunctive – Part 2!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Deepen your understanding of the subjunctive mood by learning irregular conjugations and how to use it in interrogative and negative contexts.

• Explore the subjonctif passé (past subjunctive) and wrap your head around the subtle ne explétif. Subtlety, meet fluency.

Beyond Simple Words – Complex Prepositions!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Go beyond basic phrases with compound and complex prepositions that express nuanced relationships between ideas.

• Whether you’re talking about cause, consequence, or contrast, this lesson equips you with the right expressions for more sophisticated communication.

Talking About "Which" – Complex Relative Pronouns!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Add elegance and clarity to your sentences with complex relative pronouns like duquel, auquel, desquels, auxquels, and their feminine and neutral forms.

• Learn to avoid repetition and build precise, flowing sentences that show off your growing mastery.

Past Perfect Clarity – The Plus-que-Parfait!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Express actions that happened before other past events with the plus-que-parfait.

• Master its formation and usage to create clear, chronological narratives and sharpen your storytelling in French.

Future Perfect Vision – The Futur Antérieur!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Look ahead with precision using the futur antérieur, a tense used to describe actions that will have been completed in the future.

• Learn to express assumptions, future deadlines, and logical conclusions with style.

Imagining the Past – The Conditionnel Passé!

CEFR level B2 - niveau indépendant (upper intermediate)

Learning objectives

• Talk about what would have happened in the past with the conditionnel passé.

• Learn how to form it using both avoir and être, and use it to express regrets, missed opportunities, and hypothetical past scenarios.

Literary Grandeur – Embracing the Passé Simple!

CEFR level C1 - niveau autonome (advanced)

Learning objectives

• Step into the world of French literature by learning the passé simple.

• Understand when it's used, how to conjugate key verbs, and how to recognise it in novels and formal writing.

• It's your passport to classic French storytelling.

Shifting the Focus – Passive Voice Power!

CEFR level C1 - niveau autonome (advanced)

Learning objectives

• Change the emphasis in your sentences with the passive voice.

• Learn to transform active constructions to highlight the receiver of the action—a powerful tool for written and formal French.

Timing is Everything – Concordance des Temps!

CEFR level C2 - niveau maîtrise (proficiency)

Learning objectives

• Achieve native-like fluency with tense consistency in complex sentences.

• Master the art of aligning verb tenses across main and subordinate clauses, especially in reported speech and writing.

• This is French grammar at its most refined.

Reporting What Others Say – Direct & Indirect Speech!

CEFR level C2 - niveau maîtrise (proficiency)

Learning objectives

• Learn to report speech accurately by switching between direct and indirect speech.

• Master the transformations needed—pronouns, tenses, and time expressions—to report conversations with clarity and grammatical precision.