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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!

Levels 6 & 7 are now Conversation Labs – the experience remains the same, just with more flexibility! Check the schedule HERE

Levels 6 & 7 are now Conversation Labs – the experience remains the same, just with more flexibility! Check the schedule HERE

GRAND DÉBUTANT / NY / SUNDAY 04-05-26

Level 2 | NYC In-person

Grand Débutant signature class

ON SALE $489


Date
Sunday, Apr 05 - Sunday, Jun 14
Time
11:00am - 12:25pm 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

skips Memorial Day weekend

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

Original price was: $489.00.Current price is: $415.00.

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

Sunday Apr 05: Lesson 1
How to ask a question

Sunday Apr 12: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense

Sunday Apr 19: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense

Sunday Apr 26: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”

Sunday May 03: Lesson 5
How to say “some”

Sunday May 10: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity

Sunday May 17: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense

Sunday May 31: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense

Sunday Jun 07: Lesson 9
Negative expressions

Sunday Jun 14: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense