French for beginners by Language City

About this course

Build a solid foundation in French with a beginner-friendly learning path designed to get you understanding and speaking sooner than you expect. This free online course focuses on the essentials that make real conversations possible: clear pronunciation, practical grammar, and everyday vocabulary that you can reuse immediately. You will start with the French alphabet and the sound system, then train your ear and your mouth to handle features that often confuse learners, such as liaisons and the French r.

As you progress, you will gain confidence with useful greetings, counting, common expressions, and the building blocks of sentence structure. Step by step, you will learn how to talk about what exists with il y a, form yes/no questions naturally, and express yourself in the negative without falling into typical beginner traps. The course also emphasizes the verbs you truly need early on, including être, faire expressions, and high-frequency -er verbs, so you can describe routines, actions, and simple opinions with accuracy.

To help you go beyond memorization, the lessons highlight key distinctions that unlock comprehension, such as savoir versus connaître, along with pronunciation guidance for proper nouns and natural speech. You will also practice listening skills with targeted comprehension activities, including exercises on phrasal-verb meanings and common ways dates are expressed. If you want a structured, approachable way to start French, improve your accent, and build habits that support long-term fluency, this course gives you practical training you can apply in daily study and real situations.