Learn French

Welcome to the Aderalingua Learn French course!

This is a free, online course to help you learn to speak the French language. Whether you are a total beginner or looking to refresh your skills, our lessons are designed to help you speak with confidence.

This course focuses on practical phrases and essential vocabulary to get you conversational as quickly as possible. To ensure you speak accurately, we’ve integrated foundational grammar, immersive stories, and real-life conversations. Interactive flashcards and quizzes are included in the lessons to help you learn.

Let's get started learning French.

Introduction to French

In this unit you'll master essential French words and phrases to get you speaking from day one. You’ll also build a solid foundation with an introduction to basic grammar.

Lesson 1 - Bonjour

Lesson 2 - Comment allez-vous?

Lesson 3 - Pronouns and the Verb Être

Lesson 4 - Nouns

Lesson 5 - Present Tense of French Verbs

Lesson 6 - Adjectives

Lesson 7 - Questions and Daily Routines

Lesson 8 - Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

Lesson 9 - Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns

Lesson 10 - Passé Composé

Lesson 11 - Adverbs

Lesson 12 - L'impératif and Travel Vocabulary

Lesson 13 - The Human Body

Lesson 14 - L’imparfait

Lesson 15 - Prepositions

Lesson 16 - Talking about the Future

Lesson 17 - Animals, Plants, Natural Objects and Weather

Lesson 18 - Adjectives that Describe Emotions

Lesson 19 - Le Conditionnel of French Verbs

Lesson 20 - Cities and Towns

Lesson 21 - Food and Drinks

Lesson 22 - Passé Simple

French Reader

Les Échos de l'Ancien Monde

Come on a post-apocalyptic journey through the ruins of Paris in this immersive reading experience designed specifically for French language learners (Levels A2 to B1). This story contains ten chapters, and each chapter includes a grammar focus and comprehension questions to help you start thinking in French.

Start Reading

Abandoned Paris — Les Échos de l'Ancien Monde

Learn French through Stories

Learn French Through Stories is a collection of French short stories that will help you improve your French reading comprehension and increase your French vocabulary. Here are some featured stories:

Appendix

These lessons will help you learn more French phrases and vocabulary.

Learning Tips

Here are a few tips to help you learn French.

Try to spend at least fifteen minutes a day learning French.
Spend some time every week writing in French: short conversations, descriptive paragraphs, and/or whatever comes to mind.
Make good use of the flashcards in the lessons to help you learn the vocabulary.
Go back and review the lessons in this course every once in a while to refresh your memory of the vocabulary and grammar concepts. This is especially important if the lessons are becoming too challenging.
When you have a few minutes free time, try thinking in French. You can think about your surroundings, things you plan to do, or just try and remember common phrases.
If you have friends who speak French, or who are also learning, try to speak with them in French.
Once you have learned some vocabulary, try watching French movies and tv shows. Reading French stories, like the ones included in this course, will solidify your vocabulary and help you become fluent in the language.

French Learning Resources

This section contains a list of resources to help you learn to speak the French language.

The following pages discuss French grammar.

Youtube video showing how to pronounce some basic French phrases.

Google Translate provides French to English and English to French translations.

Project Gutenberg has some free French ebooks.

Librivox has some free audiobooks in French.

There are several online news sites in French.

Listen to online radio to help improve your listening skills.

RTL - News Radio
France24 - News Radio
Chante France - French Music