Learn French from beginner to an A2 you can prove.

A structured A1 to A2 curriculum that ends in a scored TCF or TEF Canada mock, and boards that rank you on what you scored rather than on how long you sat there.

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*Ends at a defensible A2, which is NCLC 4 to 5. Not B1, and it will not tell you otherwise.

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26modules
A1-A2the whole range
4skills scored
A2NCLC 4 to 5

The whole route, visible before you commit to it.

Ten A1 modules build the machinery. Sixteen A2 modules put it under the load of an administrative life, and the last one is the exam.

M01, A1Se présenter7 sessionsM02, A1Ma famille, mes affaires7 sessionsM03, A1Le quotidien7 sessionsM04, A1Où j'habite7 sessionsM05, A1Manger et boire7 sessionsM06, A1Le temps et les loisirs7 sessionsM07, A1Faire des achats7 sessionsM08, A1Se déplacer7 sessionsM09, A1La santé7 sessionsM10, A1Hier7 sessionsM11, A2Raconter sa journée7 sessionsM12, A2Mon parcours7 sessionsM13, A2Le travail7 sessionsM14, A2Chercher un logement7 sessionsM15, A2Les démarches7 sessionsM16, A2La santé, encore7 sessionsM17, A2Décrire et se souvenir7 sessionsM18, A2Raconter une histoire7 sessionsM19, A2Projets et avenir7 sessionsM20, A2Donner son avis7 sessionsM21, A2Études et formation7 sessionsM22, A2La ville et les services7 sessionsM23, A2Le quotidien et l'environnement7 sessionsM24, A2S'informer7 sessionsM25, A2Conseiller et exiger7 sessionsM26, A2Bilan et examenThe exam
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Every session hands you the same three objects.

Self-study does not fail on material. It fails on the decision about what to do next, so Parcours makes that decision once and never asks again.

La leçon, 18 min

A function, and exactly one rule

A mini-dialogue shows the session's job (saying how long, refusing politely, reporting what someone said) before the grammar point that makes it possible is named. Never two points in one session, because two is how one session becomes three.

La fiche, 22 min

Production, marked against a descriptor

Exercises are generated against the module's CEFR can-do statements, so a wrong answer resolves to a named gap rather than a percentage. Handwriting the production step is recommended, and in the exam room it is not optional.

Le contrôle, end of module

A test that is allowed to refuse you

The last session of every module covers the whole of it and gates the next one. Failing it returns you to your two weakest sessions. A gate that never closes measures nothing, which is precisely what a streak counter is.

A board that ranks the score, not the sitting.

The ranking key is your measured NCLC and the error bar around it, taken from a marked mock section. Not minutes, not points, not a streak. A board you can climb by turning up is a board that measures turning up.

Study group

A private board for the people you study with

Start one, send the link, and the people you learn alongside are ranked together. A group is visible only to its members, so a small board of friends stays a small board of friends.

Ranked, unlisted

Your position is yours until you say otherwise

You are ranked from the start and listed by name only when you choose to be, which takes a handle you pick. Everyone sees where they stand; nobody is put on display for it.

Unranked, not last

No measurement means no number

Until a mock section has been marked there is nothing to rank you on, so the board says so instead of placing you at the bottom. An empty result is not a bad one, and a board that scored it as zero would be measuring attendance again.

The output is a measured score, with its confidence band attached.

The final module is an adaptive mock in official TCF and TEF Canada formats. It maps ability to a CEFR band and converts that band to the NCLC score range your Canadian immigration file is assessed against. Where the evidence is thin, the range widens instead of guessing. That same measurement, error bar included, is what places you on your boards.

5Reading Comprehension
(Compréhension écrite)
NCLC sample result

*A result measured here is practice, not an official one. Only a TCF Canada or TEF Canada sitting at an approved test centre produces a score IRCC will accept, and the CEFR to NCLC conversion used here is an approximation. What that means.

The ceiling is A2, and we say so on the front page.

A2 converts to NCLC 4 to 5. That is the honest ceiling of an A1 and A2 curriculum, and it is what Parcours teaches to.

Programmes that promise B1 in six months are selling an exam result their material cannot produce. You find out in the exam room, which is the worst possible place to find out.

Asked before Module 01.

A defensible CEFR A2, which converts to NCLC 4 to 5 on a Canadian immigration file. The curriculum runs A1 through A2 and stops there. It is not a B1 course and will not tell you it is one.

On your measured NCLC from a marked mock section, and the error bar around it. Not on minutes studied, points collected or days in a row. A board you can climb by turning up is only measuring that you turned up.

Yes. A study group is a private board ranked on measured NCLC, scoped to its members and visible only to them. Start one and send the invite link, or join with a link somebody sends you. There is no public board and no global ranking: every board you can be on is one you or someone you know made.

Not unless you decide it should be. You are ranked from the start but unlisted by default: you see your own position and nobody else sees your row. Appearing by name is an opt-in that takes a handle you choose.

There is one track and it starts at Module 01. Self-taught learners usually have holes in exactly the A1 material they believe is finished: gender agreement, negation, the two past tenses. The module tests find them faster than a placement quiz.

Forty to fifty minutes, roughly eighteen on the lesson and twenty-two on production. The last session of a module runs longer, because it is a test over everything the module covered.

You do not advance. You are returned to the two sessions you scored weakest on, and you retake it.

It replaces a classroom's structure: the sequence, the pacing, the marking, and the refusal to advance you early. It does not replace a conversation partner.

No. Only a sitting at an approved test centre produces a result Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will accept. A Parcours band is practice and a read on whether you are ready to book one. It is not submitted anywhere and counts for nothing on an application.

NCLC (Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens) is the twelve-point scale a Canadian immigration file states French ability on; CEFR is the six-band European scale (A1 to C2) that language courses are written against. Parcours teaches to CEFR and reports both, treating a defensible A2 as NCLC 4 to 5. That conversion is an approximation drawn from published equivalence charts, which have been revised before — IRCC is the authority on the exact mapping, not this site.

No. All 62 grammar points the track teaches, from A1 through A2, are published in full at the grammar reference with conjugation tables and worked examples. The explanations are free to read. What an account buys is the order they arrive in, production marked against a CEFR descriptor, and a module test that can refuse to advance you.

It opens with a greeting, être, and eleven words.

It is already written. Nothing is gated behind a trial or a quiz about what kind of learner you are.

Module 01 · Introductions (Se présenter)
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