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Online Signature Classes are getting a major price drop to $299! Check out the 2026 schedule here!

Online Signature Classes are getting a major price drop to $299! Check out the 2026 schedule here!

GRAND DÉBUTANT / NY / SATURDAY 01-24-26

Level 2 | NYC In-person

Grand Débutant signature class


Date
Saturday, Jan 24 - Saturday, Mar 28
Time
3:00pm - 4:25pm ET
Duration
10 Weeks

Teacher

Tom grew up in Montpellier, France, where he spent most of his childhood talking to himself and inventing stories. He later trained on stage in London before moving to New York to study drama.

After graduating, he founded Mes Films en Couleur, a production company dedicated to telling true stories with a twist—one color at a time. His debut short, Orange, earned an Honorable Mention at Hollywood New Directors. His latest film, Olive, explores memory, love, and identity through the fractured lens of Alzheimer’s.

Tom is passionate about martial arts, sports, and cinema. He’s known to bring the same discipline from the dojo and the same joy he feels in a movie theater into his creative work!

Location

This class will be taught mainly in English, with French being introduced gradually via simple conversation prompts.

Have any questions? Read the FAQ or see our T&C's

$489.00

In stock

includes FREE digital course and exercise book



Additional Material for your Class


What's Included?


Niveau 2 –  Course book – Digital Download (PDF)

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)

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

Saturday Jan 24: Lesson 1
How to ask a question

Saturday Jan 31: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense

Saturday Feb 07: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense

Saturday Feb 14: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”

Saturday Feb 21: Lesson 5
How to say “some”

Saturday Feb 28: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity

Saturday Mar 07: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense

Saturday Mar 14: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense

Saturday Mar 21: Lesson 9
Negative expressions

Saturday Mar 28: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense