About us

French Essentials

French Essentials is an online school of French created from a passion for language education and from the desire of helping people grow in a professional, effective and playful way.

French Essentials offers training courses for:

• People (10+ years old)

• Professionals 

• Businesses

The lessons of French Essentials follow the progression of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) and rely on the action-oriented approach.

French Essentials' method 

French Essentials' method consists in teaching linguistic knowledge through shaping and developing imagination, creativity and critical thinking in French.

During lessons participants are actively part of their learning experience as they are guided in an inductive way through a dynamic sequence of activities and interactions which includes:

• [Observation] Listening or reading of a first audio, audiovisual, text or visual document on the lesson's theme with questions of global comprehension of linguistic sense.

• [Comprehension] Listening or reading of a second document on the lesson's theme with questions of comprehension of linguistic sense as well as questions of interaction so that learners may express their point of view and ideas on the situation or topic covered.

• [Conceptualization] Listening or reading again of the documents with questions of identification and comprehension of linguistic forms.

• [Systematization] Guided training exercises on the use of the new linguistic forms learned.

• [Production] Free practice exercises with the autonomous use of the new linguistic forms learned in which learners are invited to act, react and interact writing and/or speaking in situations linked to the lesson's theme and topic.

After each lesson learners can deepen their comprehension of their new linguistic knowledge with training and practice exercices on a personal digital copybook put at their disposal. 

The objective of French Essentials training courses is enabling learners to be autonomous and confident in using and learning French through their practice of the language.