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Course Levels
All levels from beginner to advanced
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The French standard courses in Chamonix are taught at all levels from beginner to advanced. To find out your skill level we ask you to complete a placement test online. For the winter semester a placement test will also be arranged on the first day of the course.
Beginner
This level is for students with little or no French background who are embarking on their first discovery of the French language. The class concentrates on developing good basic conversational, reading, and writing skills. Special attention is paid to fundamentals such as grammar, pronunciation and sentence structure with the grammar element focusing on adjectives, articles, numbers and figures, the interrogative form, location, negation, present tense, and pronouns. This level gives the student a clear idea about the functioning and the basic structure of French.
Elementary
The primary aspects of this level include in-depth work on skills the student will have already acquired in the past such as adjectives, articles, the interrogative form, negation, present tense, and pronouns. Grammar elements will include demonstrative adjectives, expression of time, immediate future, the imperfect and passé composé tenses, and personal pronouns. The classes will also cover vocabulary, sentence structure and pronunciation, as well as work on written and oral expression.
Intermediate
The Intermediate level assumes a good working knowledge of French grammar and vocabulary. Grammar topics include adjectives, comparison, the conditional, future and imperfect tenses, past participles passive form, verb propositions, and personal pronouns. The class work will concentrate on phonetics as well as more complex written and oral expression.
Advanced
Advanced level courses assume a fairly proficient level of fluency in the French language. The students will be introduced to complex sentence structures in addition to new vocabulary, all aimed at producing a higher level of fluency in both written and oral expression. Grammar subjects covered include the past tense in its more complex versions, the expression of hypothesis, the plus-que-parfait, relative pronouns, and the subjunctive.
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