Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Using the book  "Grammaire Progressive, niveau Perfectionnement", continue to explore the complexity and subtlety of French grammar.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

NEW IN 2025! The Alliance Française de Canberra is bringing back French Cooking Classes with a new format: a cook-off between our teachers!

Each week, a different teacher will guide you and a small group through preparing a delicious recipe in our kitchen, following a workshop that introduces the dish and its country or region of origin. At the end of each class, students will rate the dishes, and the winning recipe will be revealed during the final class.

Our director Nabila will kick things off with her famous olive tagine—don't miss it!

 Next session starts on Saturday 15^th February for five weeks (until Saturday 15^th March)
 Every Saturday from 9:30am to 12:30pm (3-hours class)
 $625 for five classes
 Small group of five students
 Make sure to bring a container with a lid so you can take your dishes home at the end of each class!

Pace: 3 hours per week over 5 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Discovering the French language
● Spelling and counting
● Greetings and politeness
● Asking questions
● Introducing yourself and others (name, nationality, age, etc.)
● Explaining why you are learning French

Course prerequisite: No prior knowledge of French whatsoever
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Discovering the French language
● Spelling and counting
● Greetings and politeness
● Asking questions
● Introducing yourself and others (name, nationality, age, etc.)
● Explaining why you are learning French

Course prerequisite: No prior knowledge of French whatsoever
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Naming and locating places
● Indicating your destination and your origin
● Describing the way you travel
● Talking about where you live
● Giving and understanding directions
● Enquiring about and booking accommodation
● Talking about your family
● Describing someone’s physical appearance and personality

Course prerequisite: Beginner 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about your likes and dislikes
● Talking about your passions, dreams and hobbies
● Explaining basic health issues
● Asking about and giving the time
● Talking about your daily routine and work activities
● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation


Course prerequisite: Beginner 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1 

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

NEW

Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 


Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Want to improve your French conversational skills? This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

Course objectives:

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required


Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Talking about going out
● Suggesting, accepting and refusing an invitation
● Relating past experiences, recent experiences and future plans
● Understanding a biography
● Describing someone’s physical appearance
● Describing a work experience
● Giving advice

Course prerequisite: Beginner 3 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Understanding travel plans
● Describing a holiday location
● Choosing a travel destination and accommodation
● Talking about the weather
● Talking about sensations and emotions
● Understanding a menu and discussing flavours
● Going grocery shopping
● Talking about reading habits

Course prerequisite: Pre-Elementary 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Comparing a past situation to the present
● Choosing an outfit, describing and buying clothes
● Making a positive or negative comment
● Comparing and evoking changes
● Describing a restaurant and ordering
● Describing an experience
● Giving movie/show recommendations
● Organising a gathering

Course prerequisite: Pre-Elementary 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment

Textbooks: Cosmopolite 4

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment

Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

NEW

Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 


Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 1

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment

Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

Want to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

●Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Want to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking, and interacting with others.

●Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Comparing linguistic stays in France
● Doing administrative procedures
● Organising a trip
● Asking about accommodation
● Describing a place
● Giving details
● Relating an experience
● Understanding advice and safety instructions

Classes that fall on a public holiday will be held on the friday of the same week.

Course prerequisite: Pre-Elementary 3 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Expressing emotions and feelings
● Organising a themed weekend
● Describing an unusual trip
● Talking about personal experiences
● Seeking employment and understanding a job offer
● Offering services
● Giving advice

Course prerequisite: Elementary 1 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Speaking about a professional career
● Answering formal questions
● Explaining, nuancing and clarifying facts
● Giving feedback
● Answering a survey
● Asking for information
● Expressing wishes and giving advice

Course prerequisite: Elementary 2 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Understanding operating instructions
● Discussing a successful experience
● Speaking about hygiene and beauty products
● Relating a series of actions
● Understanding a story
● Sharing a memory
● Explaining a series of facts
● Advocating for a cause

Course prerequisite: Elementary 4 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 2

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment

Textbooks: Cosmopolite 3

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

Would you like to improve your French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice listening, speaking and interacting with others.

● Expressing hesitation
● Asking someone to make a decision or to choose
● Asking someone what they want
● Talking about sport
● Talking about your plans and making hypotheses
● Talking about career choices
● Expressing your emotions, feelings and indifference
● Asking questions in order to make a decision
● Talking about voting (from 16 years of age)

Course Prerequisite: Elementary (A2)
Textbooks: No textbooks required
 
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Taking risks
● Enhancing one’s experience
● Understanding a profession
● Describing the start of your workday
● Analysing the front page of a magazine
● Comparing traditional and social media
● Describing a past event
● Structuring a newspaper article
● Identifying and analysing fake news
● Drawing attention from an audience
● Debating

Course prerequisite: Intermediate 3 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 3

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes!

● Identifying criteria and warnings
● Classifying objects
● Setting wishes and making requests
● Speaking on the phone
● Describing a place
● Giving advice/describing a hypothetical situation
● Talking about one’s connection to a place
● Describing memories
● Describing one’s experience of arriving in a foreign city
● Expressing feelings
● Understanding complaints
● Solving problems
● Managing and anticipating health problems
● Staying informed about your medical insurance

Course prerequisite: Elementary 6 or take a free level assessment
Textbooks: Cosmopolite 3

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Have fun learning with 2 hours a week of interactive classes.
This course is designed for participants who have a B1/Intermediate level in French. In class, you will work on oral/written comprehension and discover how the language works using a variety of documents (videos, written and audio) and in context (in many everyday situations).
The teacher will support your learning in carrying out a variety of activities. You will interact with other learners and the teacher. Grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation will be explained and are approached in an active way.
The Cosmopolite B2 is the reference manual. It will be used in class and for supplementary activities.
In addition, the teacher will provide supplementary resources to ensure a variety of materials are studied.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

IMPORTANT:
Please make sure to indicate your schedule preferences on the "Comment" section available on the payment page. You may pick one regular course of your level and one conversation course of your level. 

The Comprehensive course is composed of 2 hours of a standard course and 2 hours of a conversation class.

During the standard course, you will learn French grammar and expand your vocabulary. You will then have the opportunity to put your new knowledge into practice during your conversation class.

Course prerequisite: Take a free level assessment

Textbooks: Cosmopolite 4

Pace: 4 hours per week over 10 weeks

Enhance your conversational and debating skills in a convivial atmosphere after some advanced grammar refreshers.
Discuss various issues on themes such as: work and leisure, technologies, media and (dis)information, consumption, the environment, social relations, health and more.
All material will be provided by your teacher.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Would you like to improve your French grammar and practise your conversation skills? 

In this course, you will study grammar points an advanced level. You will be encouraged to practise your speaking skills using themes corresponding to your language objectives. The aim of this course is to help you develop your French language skills.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Would you like to improve your French grammar and practise your conversation skills? 

In this course, you will study grammar points an advanced level. You will be encouraged to practise your speaking skills using themes corresponding to your language objectives. The aim of this course is to help you develop your French language skills.

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Using the book  "Grammaire Progressive, niveau Perfectionnement", continue to explore the complexity and subtlety of French grammar.
Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

A lot of fun and interesting topics to be discussed, from politics to philosophy, to science or to any subject you would like to explore in French... This class brings different discussion topics together whilst enjoying breakfast as a group. Coffee and croissant included!

If you are not sure about your level, take a free level assessment

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Looking to practice your conversation skills in French? This class will give you an opportunity to practice speaking, listening and to interact with others. The Perfectionnement class focuses on social change and contemporary global issues.

If you are not sure about your level, take a free level assessment

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks

Are you a beginner who wants to improve their French conversational skills?
This class will give you the opportunity to practice speaking, listening and interacting with others.

● Greet someone
● Get to know someone
● Leave someone/a conversation
● Speak about greetings, relationships and family
● Speak about your tastes
● Ask about other peoples’ tastes
● Ask for and give an opinion
● Talk about likes and dislikes
● Learn how to invite and how to accept or refuse an invitation
● Learn how to agree and disagree
● Express obligations, what is allowed, what is not allowed
● The usefulness of the pronoun "on"

Course Prerequisite: For beginners who have previously studied 10 hours of French
Textbooks: No textbooks required

Pace: 2 hours per week over 10 weeks