GRAND DÉBUTANT / ONLINE / BIWEEKLY 10-21-25

Level 2 | Online

Grand Débutant biweekly

Date

Tuesday, Oct 21 - Thursday, Nov 20

Time

6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

Duration

5 Weeks

Teacher

Keveen

Born and raised in Brive, in southwestern France, Keveen quickly relocated to Paris to pursue his passion for music. After teaching French and English in Peru, he settled in LA in 2011 and joined Coucou in 2020. He works as a language and music tutor and is also a touring musician and a fixture on the LA music scene, playing in several local bands.

#Bookworm #Calm & Collected #Creative #History Buff #Music Fan

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Location

Online

Tuesdays & Thursdays

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.

$389.00

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

Tuesday Oct 21: Lesson 1
How to ask a question

Thursday Oct 23: Lesson 2
“Can”, “must”, “to want” and “to know” in the present tense

Tuesday Oct 28: Lesson 3
“To take”, “to come”, “to hold” in the present tense

Thursday Oct 30: Lesson 4
When to say “he/she is” vs. “it is”

Tuesday Nov 04: Lesson 5
How to say “some”

Thursday Nov 06: Lesson 6
Expressions of quantity

Tuesday Nov 11: Lesson 7
Irregular verbs patterns in the present tense

Thursday Nov 13: Lesson 8
Reflexive and reciprocal verbs in the present tense

Tuesday Nov 18: Lesson 9
Negative expressions

Thursday Nov 20: 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