High School French

Why Learn French Online, And What Your Teen Will Actually Learn

When people picture a language class, they often picture rows of desks, a textbook, and thirty students competing for two minutes of speaking time each. That's not what learning French with me looks like.

I teach French 1, 2, and 3 online, in small groups of two to six students, over Zoom. It's the same rigorous, well-sequenced curriculum you'd find in a strong high school classroom, but with far more room for each student to actually speak, be heard, and get feedback that means something. No one hides in the back row on a video call.

A Program Built to Go Somewhere

A lot of language classes feel like a collection of disconnected vocabulary lists. Mine isn't. Each level builds deliberately on the one before it, moving students from their very first "Bonjour, je m'appelle..." toward the kind of confident, nuanced French that opens the door to AP and IB coursework, and, eventually, to real conversations with French speakers anywhere in the world.

French 1 lays the foundation: greetings, family, school, food, and the everyday vocabulary students need to start expressing themselves. Alongside the basics of grammar, students get their first taste of the francophone world: France, Québec, francophone Africa, and start noticing how everyday customs like greetings differ across cultures.

French 2 is where fluency starts to take shape. Students learn to talk about the past, a trip, a weekend, a memory, and to compare people, places, and experiences. We explore the regions of France, French cuisine, and the wider francophone world, often through a hands-on project on a francophone region of their choice.

French 3 pushes students into real-world territory: the environment, technology and social media, identity and culture, media, education, and civic life. Grammar gets more sophisticated, the future, the conditional, an introduction to the subjunctive, because students are starting to debate, argue, and analyze, not just describe. Culturally, we dig into French and francophone cinema, immigration and multiculturalism in France, and francophone African literature, laying the groundwork for the themes they'll meet in AP and IB French.

Why Small Groups, Why Online

I keep groups small on purpose. In a class of two to six, there's no place to disappear, every student gets real speaking time, real correction, and a teacher who actually knows how they're progressing, not just what grade they got on the last quiz.

Online doesn't mean watered down. We use breakout rooms for paired conversation and debate, screen sharing to work through authentic French texts and videos together, and a shared digital portfolio so students (and parents) can actually see progress over the year, recorded speaking samples, dated writing pieces, the whole arc of growth from Novice to Intermediate French.

Curious What Level Is Right for Your Student?

Every student comes in at a slightly different place, and that's normal. If you're not sure whether French 1, 2, or 3 is the right fit, or you just want to know more about how the online small-group format works, I'd love to talk it through with you.

Reach out at frenchwithanne@gmail.com to get started.

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