A full TEF Canada French course that takes you from zero to NCLC 7, with 50 lessons, exercises and quizzes across five stages.
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15 free lessons · 50 lessons in the complete course. You can explore any stage.
Introduce yourself and explain a simple need without reading.
Describe a past event with a clear sequence.
Sustain a conversation and ask relevant follow-ups.
Support an opinion with distinct developed reasons.
Complete unfamiliar writing A/B tasks within the time and word requirements.
Set your starting level and weekly study time to generate daily tasks.
Choose the description that sounds like you. The study plan starts you at that stage, then sets daily lessons, listening, reading and speaking or writing practice.
Start here if you say “I’m starting French”
First French
Introduce yourself and explain a simple need without reading.
Start here if you say “I can handle the basics”
Language foundations
Describe a past event with a clear sequence.
Start here if you say “I can hold a conversation”
Independent communication
Sustain a conversation and ask relevant follow-ups.
Stronger communication
Support an opinion with distinct developed reasons.
Start here if you say “I already use French comfortably”
Exam preparation
Complete unfamiliar writing A/B tasks within the time and word requirements.
Hours are planning ranges for lessons, independent practice and review, not a score prediction. Repeat a stage until you can do what it lists.
Every lesson has the same three steps: a short explanation with an example, an exercise where you write your own French, and a quiz that explains each answer. This one is from Stage 1.
A complete French sentence usually names a subject and a conjugated verb: je parle, vous travaillez. Je becomes j’ before a vowel sound in j’habite.
Bonjour, je m’appelle Leïla. J’habite à Ottawa. Je cherche un cours de français. Est-ce que vous pouvez parler plus lentement ?
Introduce yourself in three French sentences and ask a staff member to repeat something. Say the sentences aloud before typing them.
Choose a polite request to a receptionist.
Pouvez-vous répéter ? asks the person politely to repeat.
The stages mix these subjects for you. Open one on its own when you want to work on a single area, such as verb tenses or Section B persuasion.
Start with the free lessons in any stage. Premium adds the rest of the course and the full practice library.
| Free | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| Course lessons | 15 lessons, spread across all five stages | All 50 lessons |
| Guided practice | 4 French basics packs | All 20 packs |
| Conjugation lab | Être and avoir | 16 verbs in 7 tenses and moods |
| Study plan | Included | Included |
| Exam practice | One sample in every reading, listening and writing category, and the first mock in each | Every practice question and all 15 mocks per skill |
| Feedback | One AI writing review and one five-minute Section A conversation, with a free account | Unlimited writing feedback, with 30 speaking minutes a week or 60 a month |
| Price | Free | CA$14.99 a week or CA$49.99 a month |
Score conversions are on the TEF score chart, and plan details on pricing.
Yes. 15 of the 50 lessons are free, and every stage has some. You can open them without an account. The study plan, the French basics practice packs and the être and avoir drills in the conjugation lab are free as well. Premium opens the rest of the course for CA$14.99 a week or CA$49.99 a month.
Yes. Stage 1 starts with French sounds, être and avoir, the present tense and a first real conversation, and every explanation is in English. If you can already manage simple exchanges, the study plan starts you at Stage 2. If you can discuss unfamiliar topics, it sends you straight to TEF Canada exam practice.
It depends on your starting level. From zero, the five stages add up to roughly 450 to 650 hours of lessons, practice and review. If your French is already strong, the exam stage alone plans for 50 to 80 hours. Enter your weekly study time and exam date in the study plan to see a schedule. These are planning ranges, and your own pace will differ.
The course builds toward NCLC 7 in each skill, which IRCC requires for its French-language Express Entry category. IRCC converts each TEF Canada skill score to an NCLC level separately, so a CEFR B2 label on its own does not prove NCLC 7. Our TEF score chart shows the conversion tables.
Not to follow the course. Classroom courses run on a fixed timetable. Here you study when you can, practise in the real exam format and get feedback on your speaking and writing. If you already work with a teacher, add them under Teachers in your settings to share your practice with them and get their feedback.
Yes. The final stage works through timed writing and speaking tasks and ends with a readiness review. Alongside the lessons you have original practice questions in every skill and 15 mock exams per skill that look and run like the real test.
