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The Alliance offers group classes well as private instruction. Select from a variety of options to enhance your French language skills, including 10-week specialty and French culture courses, core classes, 4-week mini courses, or unique 2-hour workshops. Learn French online or immerse yourself with in-person classes. Group classes are available in the mornings, afternoons, evenings, and occasionally on Saturdays. Private class schedules are arranged directly with each student.
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Fall Class Highlight: starts October 12
French Made easy
Build your French through Comprehensible Input
This lively, interactive class helps beginners develop listening and comprehension skills through everyday vocabulary, stories,
visual aids, and guided conversation. Perfect for true beginners or A1 students looking for extra support, the class emphasizes
learning naturally through listening, movement, imagination, and interaction—with no homework or textbooks required. No
prerequisites.
Fall Class Highlight
french cinema: Les Immigrants
Explore immigration and identity through French cinema
This course examines how French films portray migration, integration, discrimination, memory, and cultural diversity from the postwar
period to today. Through film excerpts, readings, and discussions in French, students will explore cinematic techniques while
engaging with broader questions of citizenship, national identity, colonial memory, and multiculturalism.
Enroll now for fall classes
September 8 - November 14
Registration now open!
fall Class Highlight
Discovering French Culture: A Journey Through Civilization
Discover France through its history, geography, and culture
This advanced French course explores French society and civilization through a variety of topics, including history, geography,
literature, science, architecture, and the performing arts.
French Class Types for Every Level
Core Skills
Learning French grammar, pronunciation and speaking skills
Core classes move students through well-defined coursework toward fluency. They are organized in five levels, with regular or accelerated pacing available for lower-level courses.
- Beginner - A1 level classes, 101 through 106
- Lower Intermediate - A2 level classes, 201 through 206
- Intermediate - B1 level classes, 301 through 306
- Lower Advanced - B2 level classes, 401 through 406
- Advanced – C1 level classes, 501 through 506
Learn all about level progression and classes for adults.
Beginning students new to the Alliance: please read information about true beginners classes on this page.
Specialty And Cultural Classes
Discussion-based classes in arts, history, language mastery, etc.
Cultural classes are discussion-based classes exposing students to different aspects of French arts, history or current events.
Specialty classes offer students the opportunity to improve their French while concentrating on specific skills like grammar, phonetics, or conversation.
Mini Classes
Pressé? Opt for our mini sessions
Mini Classes
Our curriculum includes a diverse range of new Mini
Classes
each quarter. Minis are the perfect opportunity to keep studying French without a long commitment with 90-minute weekly sessions
for four weeks.
Intensive Program
Maximum Progress in Just 4 Days
Kick-start French
You can also accelerate your language skills with an intensive class: a four-day
brush-up class (2.5 hours per day) right before the current term classes begin.
Summer Workshops
Discover New French Adventures
Summer Workshops
Join us this summer for a series of French workshops designed to be both engaging and enriching. These two-hour sessions give students the
opportunity to try something new, explore creative topics, and enjoy a more relaxed approach to learning French in a fun and interactive
setting.
New and exciting workshops will be added throughout the summer, so be sure to check back regularly for additional offerings!