*skips Thanksgiving week
GRAND DÉBUTANT / NY / WEDNESDAY 09-24-25
Level 2 | NYC 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
Wednesday Sep 24: Lesson 1
How to ask a question
Wednesday Oct 01: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense
Wednesday Oct 08: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense
Wednesday Oct 15: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”
Wednesday Oct 22: Lesson 5
How to say “some”
Wednesday Oct 29: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity
Wednesday Nov 05: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense
Wednesday Nov 12: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense
Wednesday Nov 19: Lesson 9
Negative expressions
Wednesday Dec 03: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense