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.
SpeakingTry it A real conversation. A chance to find your words.
TEF · Expression orale
Section A · 5 minutes
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.
Your partner is listening
Ask your questions in French. Your partner will answer naturally.
ReadingTry it The document, the question, the clock. All in place.
Bibliothèque du Lac
Bienvenue à la bibliothèque
Livres · Journaux · Bandes dessinées Du mardi au samedi 10 h à 18 h Fermé le dimanche et le lundi.
Dans ce lieu, on peut…
ListeningTry it French audio. Focused listening. Clear answer choices.
Quelle information est communiquée dans cette annonce ?
WritingTry it Your ideas, in French. With room to make them better.
Une 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…
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Talk with a live AI examiner, write under the real timer and get detailed feedback. Choose a skill to see TEF Practice in action.
Talk with a live AI examiner. Practise asking questions and defending your point of view.
Try speakingWrite a TEF response and get feedback on your grammar, structure and vocabulary.
Try writingTrain your ear with French recordings. Check your answers and learn from each explanation.
Try listeningBuild speed with French texts and exam questions. Understand why each answer is right.
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The TEF Canada speaking test is a live conversation with an examiner. Practise the same way with an AI partner that listens and replies in French.
Ask follow-up questions about an ad in Section A, or persuade a friend who raises objections in Section B. After each conversation, review your transcript and feedback.
Your first five-minute conversation is free with an account.
You
Bonjour ! Est-ce que je dois apporter mon appareil photo ?
AI partner
Un téléphone suffit. On peut aussi vous prêter un appareil compact.
You
Super ! Comment est-ce que je peux le réserver ?
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.
Try a writing questionIllustrative writing feedback. You wrote « Je pense que c’est bien pour la ville. » Try this: « 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.
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50 lessons from your first French sentences to exam strategy, with a study plan set to your level.
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Find meanings, translations and example sentences for French words and expressions.
Open the dictionaryMock 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.
The TEF Practice course in 5 stages: French basics, Everyday French, Connected sentences and paragraphs, Opinions and complex grammar, TEF Canada exam practice. The first stage opens on TEF Canada format and study goals, Your first useful French conversation, Hear French as sound groups.
Turn the French words you save during practice into flashcards. Review them with spaced repetition or type them from memory. The vocabulary library also includes French expressions and speaking templates you can adapt for exam day.
Browse the vocabulary library without an account.
Auriez-vous un créneau disponible samedi matin ?
Read the task, explore a response excerpt, and use the checklist to review your French.
Une 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… Section A · 25 minutes · At least 80 words
Understand the NCLC level behind each official TEF result, and see why the four skills have different thresholds.
Open the TEF score calculatorChoose 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
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.
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.
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