Foundations of French for Global Communication

Learn to read, write, speak and understand French with King’s College London

This course is ideal for anyone looking to visit a French-speaking country for leisure, or study and exchange programme purposes.

Using a communicative approach in your online classroom sessions, you’ll be well-versed in speaking, reading, listening to and writing the French language by the end of the two-week course.

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Suitable even for those with no prior experience, you’ll gain both cultural competency and an understanding of the French language throughout the course.

You’ll also cover some of the basics so that you can strike up a simple conversation with and understand native French speakers in a social environment.

Enjoy interactive activities with fellow students to help with speaking French

You’ll get the chance to engage in interactive language activities and will participate in online group work according to a syllabus based on a systematic grammatical progression.

Covering varied topics including greetings, personal information, and basic interactions, you’ll be able to read and understand simple texts in the French language by the end of the two-week course.

Learn from the experts at the Modern Language Centre

The Modern Language Centre at King’s College London employs over 100 teaching staff who are native speakers of the languages in which they teach.

You’ll be under their guidance every step of the way and will enjoy a course mapped to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) standard.

The material for these introductory weeks will provide a taste of a new microcredential from King’s College London, coming to FutureLearn in September 2021.

This course is for beginners who’d like to learn French for professional reasons. Whether you’re travelling to France for business, this course is the perfect preparation before your journey.

• Getting to know each other
• Bienvenue dans le cours de français ! (Welcome to the French course)
• Greeting - informal and formal registers
• Introducing oneself
• Alphabet and spelling
• Numbers, age and dates
• Countries - cities and tourists attractions
• Final task
• Presenting someone or something
• Introduction to week 2
• Giving more information about oneself
• Occupations and workplaces
• Identifying objects
• Final task