Skips Thanksgiving (November 27, 2025) & the Holiday Break (December 25, 2025 & January 1, 2026)
GRAND DÉBUTANT / LA / THURSDAY 10-23-25
Level 2 | LA In-person
Grand Débutant
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 23: Lesson 1
How to ask a question
Thursday Oct 30: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense
Thursday Nov 06: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense
Thursday Nov 13: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”
Thursday Nov 20: Lesson 5
How to say “some”
Thursday Dec 04: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity
Thursday Dec 11: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense
Thursday Dec 18: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense
Thursday Jan 08: Lesson 9
Negative expressions
Thursday Jan 15: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense