All four skills. One place to practise.
Practise all four skills with fifteen TEF Canada mock exams, a live AI speaking partner and instant, accurate feedback. Still building your French? The course takes you from your first sentences to exam day.
SpeakingPractice previewVotre situation · Section A
Un atelier de photographie
Le centre culturel propose un atelier photo le samedi, de 10 h à 12 h. Débutants bienvenus. Petit groupe. Inscription obligatoire.
À vous de parler
Posez vos questions à votre partenaire.
Partenaire de conversation IA
A real conversation. A chance to find your words.
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ReadingPractice previewLisez le document
À la bibliothèque
BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU LAC Livres, journaux et bandes dessinées Ouvert du mardi au samedi, de 10 h à 18 h. Fermé le dimanche et le lundi.
Dans ce lieu, on peut…
The document, the question, the clock. All in place.
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ListeningPractice previewÉcoutez le document sonore.
Extrait de compréhension orale
Quelle information est communiquée dans cette annonce ?
French audio. Focused listening. Clear answer choices.
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WritingPractice previewUne découverte inattendue
Un habitant a trouvé une vieille boîte en rénovant sa cuisine. À l'intérieur, il a découvert plusieurs lettres et une photographie du quartier prise il y a plus de cinquante ans…
Poursuivez ce fait divers avec un texte d’au moins 80 mots, organisé en plusieurs paragraphes.
Votre texte
0 mot · 80 mots minimumYour ideas, in French. With room to make them better.
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Four skills, one platform
Prepare for every part of TEF Canada, from your first conversation to your next full mock exam. Start with the skill you need most.
Practise both TEF speaking sections with an AI conversation partner and saved feedback.
Practise speakingContinue a news story or defend an opinion. Write under exam timing, save your draft and review it.
Practise writingListen to original French recordings, choose your answers and review transcripts and explanations.
Practise listeningRead French notices and short articles. Check your answers and understand each explanation.
Practise readingMake each attempt count
Know what to work on next, build your French, and come back feeling a little more prepared.
Feedback you can use
Get feedback on your speaking and writing, with strengths, areas to improve and suggestions for your French. Reopen your saved attempts and put that feedback into practice.
TEF teachers help us write the questions and check our scoring. When a teacher and our AI grade the same response, the AI gives the same CEFR level more than 90% of the time, and we keep running that comparison as the question bank grows.
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A clearer way to say it
Illustrative writing feedback
Your phrasing
« Je pense que c’est bien pour la ville. »
Make your reasoning more specific
« La gratuité des transports encouragerait les habitants à laisser leur voiture chez eux, ce qui réduirait la circulation. »
A specific action and its consequence make your argument easier to follow.
Fifteen complete mock exams. Section timing, French audio and tasks for all four skills.
Explore mock exams
50 lessons from your first French sentences to exam strategy, with a study plan set to your level.
Explore the course
Look up a French word, save it to your vocabulary, and revisit it in your own review rounds.
Open the dictionaryLearn French here too
Mock exams show where you lose points. When the cause is grammar you haven't learned yet, more practice questions won't fix it, so the course teaches the French first.
Pick your starting level and your study plan moves through 5 stages, from your first sentences to full TEF Canada tasks. There are 50 lessons, 17 of them on grammar, plus a verb lab for conjugation drills. 15 lessons are free.
Your path to exam day
Your plan starts at the stage that fits your French.
Find your voice
First French
Make everyday French work
Language foundations
Connect your ideas
Independent communication
Handle detail and disagreement
Stronger communication
Bring it together for TEF Canada
Exam preparation
HOW IT WORKS
Read a sample task, explore a response excerpt, and use the checklist to review your French.
Your starting point
Un habitant a trouvé une vieille boîte en rénovant sa cuisine. À l'intérieur, il a découvert plusieurs lettres et une photographie du quartier prise il y a plus de cinquante ans…
Section A · 25 minutes · At least 80 words
AI TEF speaking practice
A live speaking partner, full mock exams, and instant, accurate feedback. Built around the way the TEF actually tests you.
TEF CANADA SCORES
Understand the NCLC level behind each official TEF result, and see why the four skills have different thresholds.
Open the TEF score calculatorStart here
Choose the exam that matches your goal. Each TEF variant serves a different purpose; check which certificate your receiving authority requires.
Canadian permanent residence and citizenship
The variant IRCC accepts for Express Entry, the French-language category, provincial programs and citizenship. If you are immigrating to Canada outside Quebec, this is almost certainly the one you need.
Reading, listening, writing, speaking · all on the same day
Quebec selection and immigration
Built for Quebec's own programs, which are assessed against the Échelle québécoise rather than the NCLC scale. Its components are modular: you take only the ones your Quebec program asks for.
Reading, listening, writing, speaking - taken independently · modular
French residence permits and naturalization
Intégration, Résidence et Nationalité - the consolidated test the French Ministry of the Interior recognises. It replaced the old "TEF pour la naturalisation", so any guide still using that name predates the current system.
All four, compulsory, same day · all on the same day
Higher education in France
For admission to French higher education, in particular the demande d'admission préalable (DAP) pathway. It is the only variant with a dedicated vocabulary and syntax component.
Reading, listening, writing, vocabulary/syntax (speaking on request) · all on the same day
Common questions
Each of our fifteen original mock exams includes 40 reading questions, 40 listening questions with French audio, two writing tasks and two speaking role-plays. You can take all four skills in sequence or practise one section at a time. Reading and listening include answer explanations, and listening transcripts are available after the attempt.
Yes. Try free samples in every reading, listening and writing category, plus one mock exam for each, without an account. Sign up to see your results, get one writing response reviewed by AI, and try one five-minute Section A speaking conversation with feedback. The course includes 15 free lessons and a free study pack. Premium unlocks the full course, all practice questions and all fifteen mock exam sets.
You speak in French with a live AI partner who takes the other role in your task. Section A asks you to obtain information; Section B asks you to persuade a friend and respond to objections. Your saved conversation supports feedback on your interaction and French. Each call is limited by the section timer and your remaining speaking allowance.
Our questions are original. We write them with TEF teachers and model them on the official TEF samples and published exam specifications, and our AI feedback follows the published assessment criteria and level descriptors. Our skill guides link to the official samples so you can compare the format yourself.
Official TEF results come only from an exam centre. Our feedback estimates your level and tells you exactly what to fix. Reading and listening give correct-answer totals. Writing and speaking feedback gives a CEFR level with corrections taken from your own response, and when TEF teachers graded the same responses, our AI matched their level more than 90% of the time. Use our score calculator to read a result from your exam centre.
You can learn French here. The course has 50 lessons, from forming your first sentences to exam strategy, including 17 grammar lessons, a verb lab for conjugation and vocabulary review. Choose your starting level and your study plan takes you through five stages toward TEF Canada. 15 lessons are free.
Sign in to keep your answers, writing drafts, feedback and course progress together. My sessions lets you reopen saved attempts. Use the French dictionary to save vocabulary to Vocabulary, then review both its meaning and your ability to recall the French word.
Your next step
A conversation, a short text, a few minutes of French. Your TEF preparation starts here.
Free questions in every category. Create an account to save your progress.
