Members: £180
Non-members: £226
Concessions: £20 (call the office 020 8340 3343)
Spring term 2025: 14 January - 08 April (12 weeks)
Half term: Tuesday 18 February
Summer term 2025: 29 April - 08 July ( 10 weeks)
Half term: Tuesday 27 May
To follow this course in basic French, you should already have studied French for at least 50 hours. You should already be comfortable with introducing yourself in French and asking people to present themselves and engage with them at a simple level. You should be able to speak about your profession, your hobbies, your passions, to interact with people in restaurants, shops, streets, on transport, to be at ease with directions, to interact with people on social media, by phone and email in a very simple manner. In terms of grammar, you will have studied French pronunciation, present tense, near future, the basic structure of the sentences, and you should already have acquired the grammar of the nouns, the adjectives and the adverbs.
If you have studied French for some time but you don’t feel confident enough about basic structures and grammar, we always revise the “weak” points.
With this course, you are going to learn new major skills such as the past and future tenses, to develop your speaking skills, to engage spontaneously with fellow students in a very friendly and warm ambiance.
Marie-Pierre Perez
Marie-Pierre qualified at the universities of Orleans and the Sorbonne in Paris. She has been teaching French in London for the past 15 years at several higher education institutions as well as providing language training for individual companies. Marie-Pierre is a trained actress and is passionate about theatre.