French grammar roadmap · A1-C2
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What you will learn
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Learn the core patterns used to introduce yourself, describe daily life, ask questions, and talk about simple plans.
- Subject pronouns and être
- Articles, noun gender, and adjectives
- Present tense and essential irregular verbs
- Negation, questions, and possessives
- Prepositions, partitives, and daily routines
- Near future and a complete A1 review
Move beyond basic statements to tell short stories, make comparisons, and connect everyday ideas naturally.
- Passé composé and imparfait
- Direct and indirect object pronouns
- The pronouns y and en
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Relative pronouns qui, que, and où
- Future and conditional foundations
Control longer sentences, narrate past events clearly, and express opinions, conditions, and reported information.
- Choosing tenses in past narration
- Subjunctive foundations
- Advanced relative pronouns
- Passive voice and reported speech
- Si clauses and conditional sentences
- Pronoun order and connected discourse
Build sophisticated arguments, handle complex clauses, and choose structures that match certainty, doubt, and tone.
- Subjunctive versus indicative
- Complex object-pronoun combinations
- Present participle and gerund
- Advanced hypotheses and conditionals
- Cause, consequence, and concession
- Neutral, familiar, and formal register
Refine tense, structure, and register to communicate precise relationships in academic, professional, and formal French.
- Tense and aspect with fine distinctions
- Nominalization and information density
- Sophisticated logical connectors
- Complex indirect and reported discourse
- Emphasis, inversion, and sentence rhythm
- Academic and professional structures
Recognize and produce subtle choices in literary, rhetorical, idiomatic, and highly specialized communication.
- Literary and rare tense forms
- Advanced inversion and dislocation
- Ellipsis and stylistic sentence shaping
- Idiomatic and fixed grammatical patterns
- Seamless shifts of tone and register
- Rhetorical nuance and authorial voice