Build fluency with our intermediate Level 4 French course. Describe past events and tell your own story, in 1 month. Live online classes with native teachers, from anywhere in Canada.
You’ve Completed Level 3 or Have Solid French Basics: Level 4 moves you from basic exchanges to real storytelling: telling what happened and sharing your own background. Live online, from anywhere in Canada.
You’re Comfortable Using the Present and Future Tenses: We add the past tenses here while keeping your present and future grammar sharp. The TEF/TCF speaking sections use that combination heavily.
You’ve Learned French Before but Need a Refresher: A common re-entry point if it's been a while. Passé composé and imparfait, rebuilt from wherever you left off.
Unsure Level 4 is the right fit? Take our free placement test →
At Level 4, you’ll develop storytelling skills by learning to narrate past events and share personal experiences.
This Level 4 class stands on its own, or slots directly into the rest of the French Transformation path. Your call.
Here's what the first 3 months look like, level by level, all live online with the same native teachers.
If you’re preparing for the TEF/TCF exam, you can also enroll in the full 9-month program, starting from your current level. Learn more about our TEF/TCF preparation program.
This module teaches you how to talk about events that happened in the past.
You’ll learn how to:
Real transformations, told by the students who lived them. Many prepared for the same TEF/TCF exam dates you are looking at now. Hear how they got there, one live class at a time.
I'm a learner of online courses from level 1 to level 6. The entire program is professionally designed, both challenging and rewarding. Under the guidance of my charismatic teacher, Anne, it's truly possible to go from not being able to pronounce anything at the beginning to communicating confidently within six months. I was indeed a complete beginner with zero background knowledge.
I was enrolled in the French levels 4-6 course with Maïwen over the last few months. All the students were very kind and all the material were explained clearly. Due to the small class size, every student has abundant opportunity to participate and practice the newly learned concepts, often in relationship to real life scenarios. Overall, I really enjoyed my time here and improved tremendously.
Needless to say if you are doing TEF prep for the purpose of immigration you know how stressful the process can be, but I’m so lucky that Maï is my instructor. Coming into the TEF prep class I have been learning French on and off for 4 years in the past but has since not kept it up, and I enrolled in TEF prep ready to be told that I should in fact go to one of the level classes because I’m not B1, but even in the first two classes where I struggled a lot and voiced my fears to Maï, she has expressed only confidence in me and encouraged me to keep going. I’ve been kicking my ass learning French with her guidance and feedback and I’ve progressed so much in just the past 1.5 months in her class. And I truly feel like I can participate and make mistakes without fear because Maï will always correct me with kindness. I now feel like a good result in TEF is within my reach and I’m excited to update this review once I get a result
I studied with Frédérique from Level 1 to Level 6, and I really enjoyed every lesson. She is kind, encouraging, and explains things clearly. Thanks to her, I feel much more confident in French. Highly recommended! Merci beaucoup☺️
I loved taking French classes with Maï! Learning a language can be challenging but Maï made it a very enjoyable experience. She is incredibly detail oriented and does a wonderful job of creating engaging course material based on one’s learning style and interests. She helped me improve my French from an A2 - B1 in 3-4 months!
The best institution to learn french in a most natural way. My tutor was Anne, she is the best. Very friendly, always there for us to help to improve a lot. I really had lot of fun in her class as well.
New classes start every month, live online from anywhere in Canada. Choose a plan and a start date to save your seat.
Class times are shown in Vancouver time
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Please note: Due to limited class sizes, registrations are final within 15 days of your class start date. See our full terms and conditions.
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You will understand familiar words and basic phrases concerning the following topics: Shopping and physical description.
You will be able to interact with sellers when you go shopping in France, and ask and answer simple questions on familiar topics.
You will be able to read and understand dialogues between 2 people or more at past tense.
You will be able to write a short text about your last weekend or last holidays using the past tense.
Not sure Level 4 is your level, or wondering how far you can get in a year? Bring it to our live question and answer session every Tuesday and Thursday evening. Pick your date on the calendar and we will send you the link, with the start time in your timezone.
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Not quite your starting point? Every level of the French Transformation path is open to you, live online across Canada.
Talk about future plans and describe situations in more detail: future tense, practical scenarios, longer conversations. Same teachers, same live online format.
See Level 3 →
Step into more abstract ground: the conditional present, relative pronouns, and conversations about technology, music, and literature. Online, same as Level 4.
See Level 5 →
The step after Level 6. From B1, our TEF/TCF course takes you to CLB 5 in 3 months and CLB 7 in 6, live online from anywhere in Canada.
Explore TEF/TCF Prep →
