Skips Thanksgiving Day (November 27, 2025)
GRAND DÉBUTANT / LA / THURSDAY 10-09-25
Level 2 | LA In-person
Grand Débutant
culver city
What's Included?
Niveau 2 – Course book
Digital Download (PDF)
The Grand Débutant Course Book includes grammar lessons, exercises, activities and essential vocabulary, complete with colorful illustrations to help further your understanding of basic French.
Niveau 2 – Exercise Book
Digital Download (PDF)
Designed for self-study, the Grand Débutant Exercise Book is perfect for extra practice and reviews in-between lessons. It contains 111 pages of exercises and bonus tips to give your French that extra oomph.
You're Grand Débutant, if...
You can introduce yourself in French, talk about your job and hobbies – even if you sometimes have to rely on the kindness (and patience) of strangers to make yourself understood.
You can conjugate regular verbs in the present tense. You can also conjugate common irregular verbs, such as être, avoir, faire and aller.
You know how to get articles and adjectives to agree with their nouns (for the most part).
You know how to construct a basic sentence in French (subject, verb, object, etc).
THE CURRICULUM
Thursday Oct 09: Lesson 1
How to ask a question
Thursday Oct 16: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense
Thursday Oct 23: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense
Thursday Oct 30: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”
Thursday Nov 06: Lesson 5
How to say “some”
Thursday Nov 13: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity
Thursday Nov 20: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense
Thursday Nov 27: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense
Thursday Dec 04: Lesson 9
Negative expressions
Thursday Dec 11: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense