The course will enable you to talk about yourself as well as asking and answering basic questions about your personal details and those of your family and friends, spelling names, providing telephone numbers, professions, expressing likes or dislikes. You will also cover the transactional language needed in a range of common tourist situations such as saying where you come from, enquiring about distances, places to go to, prices, explaining where to meet you, where you are going, ordering at café or selecting a breakfast menu.

You will cover basic grammatical concepts such as gender, adjectival agreement, singular and plural forms, and critically basic verb conjugation in the present tense. The emphasis however will be on speaking, listening and pronunciation; giving you an understanding of the fundamentals of the French phonics system so that you can apply it yourself to new words. You will do some basic reading and writing as well as short dialogues and interviews. You will also deal with relevant cultural topics based on life in France and other French speaking countries.

"Facilities at Abingdon Campus:- Vending machines and Costa Coffee shop (open until 7pm on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday term time only).- Watercoolers available, making it easy to refill your water bottle.- Free parking. Please note due to half term there will be no session on 19/02/2026."