French Classes in NYC, New York

JE PIGE QUE DALLE! Wondering what this means? This workshop is for you! Forget textbooks. Come learn to speak French the way French people actually speak. French Slang is very rarely taught, and yet, it’s a very important – if not crucial – part of the language. Being able to understand it and use it will make a tremendous difference in your...

Join Coucou teacher, performer, and theatre writer Quentin for our first ever improv workshop, l’impro en Français! Despite the constraints and limitations of our current times, we’ve decided to follow the first rule of improv and to say “Oui!” to everything! Yes to working within the constraints and limitations of these new times! Yes...

Bonjour et bienvenue! LEVEL DESCRIPTION: If you are able to use all tenses in conversation with at least 75% accuracy but need to work on fluency and build vocabulary, this level is for you! HOW TO JOIN A CLASS: We have a rolling admission policy which means, you will be joining one of our existing group classes that fits the level description above....

FIAF’s à petits pas program provides a gentle and fun immersion experience through a structured curriculum, allowing your child to become familiar with French through hands-on and age-appropriate activities. Your child will pick up new words and language structures, using them in a variety of stimulating activities such as fun arts-and-crafts...

THIS WORKSHOP IS ONLY OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO ARE REACHING THE END OF THEIR LEVEL 4 COURSE AT COUCOU OR RECENTLY COMPLETED THIS LEVEL. Speaking Practice workshops are designed to help students get comfortable speaking and gain the confidence to use the grammar and vocabulary that they have learned in class to converse with their fellow students in a...

If you want to reach true fluency, sign up for Expert. There is no set curriculum, so you can take this class as many times as you like! You're an Expert if: You only need an occasional review of advanced grammatical topics, and you mostly want to improve your conversation skills. You'd like to work on your French slang and learn to master idiomatic...

As with Apprenti, this class is taught mostly in French. You might surprise yourself understanding even brand new vocabulary in context. You’re an Intermédiaire, if… You can say "He gave it to me" or "I ate there last night." You can raise Parisian eyebrows with phrases like "My daughter was three when we moved" or "When I met my boyfriend,...

This course is for you if: Your speech is far from flawless. But you can converse without too much groping. If you hear a French radio broadcast, you can decipher what’s happening—even if you don’t understand every word. You’d like to be able to watch French movies—without subtitles. That’s what you're heading towards. We’ll put...

Grand Débutant is right for you, if… You sprinkle your attempts with English, mix up your French-isms, and find yourself gesticulating adorably for the right “je ne sais quoi.” As far as conversing effectively and pronouncing correctly, you rely on the kindness (and patience) of strangers.  You can conjugate regular verbs in the present...

You feel fairly confident using all major tenses. You have the grammatical framework necessary to talk about a variety of topics, but you still make some mistakes. You need to tighten up the loose ends. By the time you sign up for Confirmé: You are familiar with and feel fairly confident using all major tenses (present, passé composé, imparfait,...

DÉBUTANT IS RIGHT FOR YOU, IF... You have never studied French before, but you've always wanted to. Or perhaps you took high school French…but you were too young to care. You have no idea when to use le, la, or li (oh wait, we made that last one up). You don’t know or remember how to say: I live in Manhattan, or I like coffee. You can say: me...

THIS WORKSHOP IS ONLY OPEN TO STUDENTS WHO ARE REACHING THE END OF THEIR LEVEL 3 COURSE AT COUCOU OR RECENTLY COMPLETED THIS LEVEL. Conversation & Games workshops are designed to help students get comfortable speaking and gain the confidence to use the grammar and vocabulary that they have learned in class to converse with their fellow students...