GRAND DÉBUTANT / ONL / THURSDAY 08-13-26

Level 2 | Online

Grand Débutant signature class

Date

Thursday, Aug 13 - Thursday, Oct 15

Time

9:00pm - 10:30pm ET

Duration

10 Weeks

Teacher

Caroline

Caroline was born and raised in Marseille, in the south of France, to Italian parents. She grew up between the two cultures. After completing a degree in journalism, she earned a degree in forensic science and criminology. She worked as a journalist and reporter in Africa and France. She later moved to the U.S., then to Canada, before moving to California, where she worked as a journalist, photographer, and writer. She now lives in Hawaii, where she joined Coucou in 2026. She is passionate about poetry, movies, soccer, and Formula One, as well as extreme sports like skydiving. She is vegan and loves writing songs, poems, and stories.

#Bookworm #Energetic #Music Fan #Supportive

Location

Online

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

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Your Zoom link will be available on your Student Portal the day before class starts.

$299.00

In stock

includes FREE digital course and exercise book

Additional Material for your Class

Niveau 2 – Exercise Book
Upgrade to Printed Book

$39.00

Niveau 2 – Course book
Upgrade to Printed Book

$29.00

Flashcards – Vocab Pack 2

$55.00

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 Aug 13: Lesson 1
How to ask a question

Thursday Aug 20: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense

Thursday Aug 27: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense

Thursday Sep 03: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”

Thursday Sep 10: Lesson 5
How to say “some”

Thursday Sep 17: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity

Thursday Sep 24: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense

Thursday Oct 01: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense

Thursday Oct 08: Lesson 9
Negative expressions

Thursday Oct 15: Lesson 10
Introduction to the “passé composé” - the main past tense

Additional Material for your Class

Niveau 2 – Exercise Book Upgrade to Printed Book

Niveau 2 – Course book Upgrade to Printed Book