French Course Structure | Serious French

French Course Structure

A structured path through French

Serious French is built as a full French course, not a collection of random lessons.

The course is organized into 16 modules, moving step by step from the first building blocks of French to more advanced communication, grammar, pronunciation, listening, reading, and writing skills.

Each module builds on the previous one, so learners always know what they are learning, why they are learning it, and what comes next.

Serious French is designed for learners who want structure, progression, and depth.

How the course works

The course follows a clear learning path:

Course → Modules → Submodules → Short Lessons → Practice → Quizzes → Progression

Each module contains smaller submodules and focused lessons. Instead of facing one huge wall of information, learners move through short, manageable sections that teach one skill at a time.

A typical module includes:

• communication skills
• vocabulary
• grammar
• pronunciation and audio
• examples
• practice
• quizzes or checkpoints
• a final review

The goal is to make French feel organized instead of scattered.

Sixteen modules

The full Serious French course contains 16 modules.

Module 1 begins with absolute beginner foundations: greetings, names, spelling, numbers, dates, articles, pronouns, and être.

Later modules expand into daily activities, descriptions, food, clothing, opinions, past events, routines, housing, celebrations, directions, travel, hypothetical situations, the subjunctive, social issues, art, and full grammar review.

The structure is progressive: each module adds new communication skills while reinforcing what came before.

Module Roadmap

Module 1: First French Foundations

Module 1 introduces the basic building blocks of French.

Learners begin with greetings, names, simple personal questions, good-byes, good wishes, the French alphabet, accent marks, numbers from 0 to 69, days, months, dates, articles, plural nouns, subject pronouns, and the verb être.

By the end of Module 1, learners can greet people, ask and answer basic personal questions, spell names, use numbers and dates, recognize masculine and feminine nouns, form plurals with des, and use être in simple sentences.

Module 1 is free.

Module 2: Personal Information and Description

Module 2 expands into more personal and descriptive communication.

Learners study age, origin, nationality, adjectives, colours, adjective agreement, the verb avoir, common expressions with avoir, basic negation with ne… pas and ne… jamais, and informal yes-no questions.

By the end of Module 2, learners can ask someone’s age, say where someone is from, describe people and things, use avoir, make basic negative sentences, and ask simple yes-no questions.

Module 3: Time, Activities, Weather, and Questions

Module 3 helps learners talk about time, events, daily actions, and weather.

Learners study how to ask and tell time, say when events happen, use regular -er verbs, talk about daily activities, use faire, discuss weather and outdoor activities, ask information questions, and place adjectives before or after nouns.

By the end of Module 3, learners can discuss schedules, classes, meetings, daily actions, weather, and basic information questions with more confidence.

Module 4: People, Family, Hobbies, and Movement

Module 4 focuses on people, relationships, free time, family, possession, movement, and places.

Learners study professions, hobbies with aimer + infinitive, family vocabulary, pets, relationship status, possessive articles, numbers above 70, the verbs aller, venir, and revenir, geographical prepositions, the pronouns y and en, the recent past with venir de + infinitive, and the near future with aller + infinitive.

By the end of Module 4, learners can talk about work, hobbies, family, possession, movement, places, and near-future or recent-past events.

Module 5: Food, Invitations, Ordering, and Quantities

Module 5 moves into food-related communication.

Learners study how to invite someone, accept or decline politely, order in a café, talk about food stores and food items, use articles and quantity expressions with food and drinks, use acheter, boire, and prendre, express hunger and thirst, conjugate regular -re verbs, and form more precise negative sentences with ne… plus, ne… rien, ne… personne, and ne… que.

By the end of Module 5, learners can handle basic café, food, shopping, invitation, and quantity situations in French.

Module 6: Opinions, Clothing, Demonstratives, and Object Pronouns

Module 6 introduces opinions, preferences, clothing, and direct object pronouns.

Learners study how to ask for and give opinions, express preferences with préférer, describe clothing and accessories, use colours, patterns, fabrics, and style expressions, point things out with ce, cet, cette, and ces, use important -ir verb patterns, and replace nouns with direct object pronouns such as le, la, l’, and les.

By the end of Module 6, learners can discuss preferences, describe outfits, point out specific items, use -ir verbs, and refer back to people and things with pronouns.

Module 7: Past Events, Entertainment, and Modal Verbs

Module 7 begins deeper work with past narration and cultural activities.

Learners study depuis, how to ask “how long” and “since when,” how to sequence past events, entertainment and cultural-event vocabulary, assister à and voir, the verbs vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, and savoir, pronouns before infinitives, indefinite pronouns such as quelqu’un, quelque chose, and quelque part, and the passé composé with both avoir and être.

By the end of Module 7, learners can talk about how long something has been happening, narrate past events, discuss cultural activities, use major modal verbs, and form the passé composé with more confidence.

Module 8: Advice, Routines, Body, and Pronominal Verbs

Module 8 focuses on advice, daily routines, the body, and pronominal verbs.

Learners study how to ask for and give advice, talk about daily routines, name parts of the body, say where something hurts with avoir mal à, use pronominal verbs such as se réveiller, se lever, se doucher, s’habiller, se reposer, and se coucher, use pronominal verbs after another verb, review different question forms, and form pronominal verbs in the passé composé.

By the end of Module 8, learners can describe routines, discuss basic body-related issues, ask for advice, use pronominal verbs, and talk about routine actions in the past.

Module 9: The Imparfait, Memories, Housing, and Comparisons

Module 9 introduces richer past description with the imparfait.

Learners study how to describe what they used to like, childhood memories, past descriptions with être, residences and living situations, comparatives and superlatives, habitual actions in the past, ongoing past situations, and the difference between the passé composé and the imparfait.

By the end of Module 9, learners can describe memories, past habits, residences, people, places, background situations, and combine completed events with past descriptions.

Module 10: Celebrations, Explanations, Relative Clauses, and Adverbs

Module 10 expands communication around holidays, explanations, beliefs, and sentence detail.

Learners study holiday and special-occasion wishes, how to ask why and give reasons, celebration vocabulary, indirect object pronouns such as lui and leur, the verbs croire and recevoir, subordinate clauses with que, relative clauses with qui, que, and où, and adverbs such as souvent, toujours, parfois, lentement, rapidement, and sérieusement.

By the end of Module 10, learners can discuss celebrations, give explanations, use indirect object pronouns, express beliefs, connect ideas, describe people and things with relative clauses, and add precision with adverbs.

Module 11: Future Plans, Life Milestones, and the Futur Simple

Module 11 focuses on future plans and major life events.

Learners study the futur proche with aller + infinitive, future time expressions, how to ask whether people like their work or studies, life milestone vocabulary, the irregular verbs lire, dire, and écrire, impersonal expressions with il, and the futur simple with regular and irregular future stems.

By the end of Module 11, learners can talk about future plans, work, studies, major life events, reading, saying, writing, necessity, and what will happen in the future.

Module 12: Directions, City Life, Commands, and Pronouns in the Past

Module 12 develops practical navigation and more advanced grammar control.

Learners study how to ask for and give directions, talk about city living, describe urban and rural life, use connaître, reconnaître, savoir, and croire accurately, compare adverbs and nouns, form the imperative, give positive and negative commands, and place object pronouns correctly in the passé composé.

By the end of Module 12, learners can ask for directions, give instructions, discuss city life, compare different kinds of words, use commands, and manage object pronouns in past-tense sentences.

Module 13: Travel, Hypothetical Situations, and the Conditional

Module 13 introduces the conditionnel présent and travel communication.

Learners study hypothetical situations, the pattern si + imparfait, conditionnel, polite conditional forms, vacation and travel vocabulary, transportation and movement verbs such as conduire, aller, venir, partir, arriver, rentrer, monter, and descendre, the pronouns y and en with places, and object pronouns with affirmative and negative commands.

By the end of Module 13, learners can discuss hypothetical choices, make polite requests, talk about vacations and travel, describe movement, use the conditional, and place object pronouns correctly with commands.

Module 14: Opinions, Countries, Quantifiers, and the Subjunctive

Module 14 begins advanced opinion and subjunctive work.

Learners study how to ask what is important or essential, explain opinions in more detail, use connectors such as parce que, car, puisque, en plus, and par exemple, talk about countries, history, culture, languages, and populations, connect verbs to infinitives with no preposition, à, or de, use quantifiers such as tout, toute, tous, and toutes, and form the present subjunctive after expressions of necessity and importance.

By the end of Module 14, learners can explain opinions, discuss countries and languages, use common infinitive patterns, describe whole groups, and use the subjunctive after expressions such as il faut que and il est important que.

Module 15: Interest, Emotions, Social Issues, and the Subjunctive

Module 15 develops more abstract communication.

Learners study how to express interest with s’intéresser à, describe emotional reactions, discuss social and environmental issues, use the subjunctive after uncertainty, say what one wishes with souhaiter que, vouloir que, and j’aimerais que, and choose between infinitive structures and the subjunctive.

By the end of Module 15, learners can express interest, react emotionally to topics, discuss social and environmental issues, express uncertainty, state wishes, and decide when to use the infinitive or the subjunctive.

Module 16: Input, Leave-taking, Art, and Full Review

Module 16 reviews and expands major skills through communication about input, leave-taking, and the arts.

Learners study how to seek someone’s input, clarify meaning, take leave of people politely, wish others well, talk about art, painting, sculpture, photography, cinema, music, artists, and works of art, review regular and irregular present-tense verbs, review question formation, review subject and object pronouns, and review past-tense forms including the passé composé, imparfait, and passé récent.

By the end of Module 16, learners can seek input, leave conversations naturally, discuss art, use major present-tense verbs, ask many types of questions, use pronouns accurately, and describe past events with several past-time structures.

Quizzes and checkpoints

Serious French uses quizzes as learning checkpoints.

Quizzes help learners test whether they understood the material before moving forward. They may check vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, sentence meaning, forms, and practical communication.

The purpose of quizzes is not to punish mistakes. The purpose is to make progress visible.

Learners should be able to look back and say:

I know what I studied.

I know what I can do now.

I know what comes next.

That is the Serious French approach.

Guided progression

Many learners struggle with French because their learning path is scattered.

They learn a greeting from one app, a verb table from a website, a few words from a video, and a grammar rule from somewhere else. The result is often confusion: they know pieces of French, but they do not know how the pieces fit together.

Serious French is designed to solve that problem.

The course gives learners a clear order:

Foundation
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Description
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Daily life
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Food and social interaction
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Opinions and preferences
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Past events
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Routines and memories
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Future plans
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Directions and travel
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Hypothetical situations
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Subjunctive and abstract topics
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Review and integration

Each module adds new tools while reusing old ones, so French becomes less blurry and more connected.

Learn like a course, not a game

Serious French is for learners who want more than casual practice.

It is for people who want grammar explained clearly, vocabulary organized by purpose, audio connected to real lessons, quizzes that check understanding, and a path that actually moves forward.

The course is not built around random exercises or endless clicking.

It is built around structure, depth, and progression.

Start with Module 1

Begin with the free first module:

Start Module 1: Ça commence!