Beginner French Course

Coming in June—this is a self-paced, living French course for beginners. It is the perfect course for your upper elementary and high school students to learn relatable French sentences so they can have conversations about their everyday lives, be it playing with their siblings, spending time outside, or doing their favorite hobbies.

I've developed this course from my teaching experience and from Charlotte Mason's writings, François Gouin's language-learning work, and current research by Dr. Stephen Krashen and Dr. Liam Printer, among others.

During my time teaching French immersion, teaching French classes online, and teaching French to my own children, as well as my own experience trying to learn German on my own, I noticed that students (myself included) found it easier to start with learning sentences that they could recombine or mix and match to articulate the thoughts that they wanted to express.

All my reading and teaching experiences converge in this Beginner Course, where students are invited to interact with French and shape it into their own thoughts. As Mason writes, "in fact, the new French words should be but another form of expression for the ideas that for the time fill the children's mind." (Home Education, p. 81)

They will look at art and gain confidence and fluency through describing the paintings using the vocabulary from within the poems, series, and stories. Students will develop their conversational skills through guided questions and responses.

Note:While the course is set to be in the pattern of lesson–review–lesson–review–review for the week—you need not finish all five in one week. However, it is important to watch and do every video.