A0 Foundation
Start from zero with survival French, sound awareness, and first-sentence confidence.
- Alphabet, sounds, and reading habits
- Identity and essential verbs
- Survival requests and first routines
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Nirécol (Nirecol) is a free multilingual academy for real-life French, exam-aware practice, and a calm path from zero to advanced work.
Start from zero with survival French, sound awareness, and first-sentence confidence.
Build short, useful French for family, routine, food, and moving through the city.
Handle travel, invitations, health, work, and short narratives with more control.
Tell stories, defend opinions, and manage longer speaking and writing tasks.
Argue clearly, compare sources, and write structured responses in formal situations.
Handle synthesis, register control, and advanced listening-reading tasks with confidence.
Refine nuance, rhetoric, and complex interpretation for very high-level French use.
The French you actually need for the prefecture, the OFII, the language tests, the civic exam, and naturalisation.
Build calm exam readiness for short comprehension, practical writing, and supported oral interaction.
Prepare for longer everyday tasks, practical writing, and clearer oral follow-through under exam timing.
Train for opinion, narration, complaint handling, and structured B1 responses across all four skills.
Practice source comparison, formal structure, and persuasive speaking for serious DELF B2 preparation.
Prepare for synthesis, advanced register control, and formal high-level speaking with a realistic DALF C1 workflow.
Refine interpretation, rhetorical control, and top-end production for serious DALF C2-style work.
Answer a few quick questions and we’ll recommend the best level to start from.
Browse resourcesEvery grammar point in the course, organised by level — jump straight to the lesson that teaches it.
Browse resourcesA single place for 3-day, 7-day, and 14-day review loops, weak-skill flags, and restart planning after a break.
Browse resourcesA dedicated system for pronunciation, transcript-first listening, dictation, and repair loops instead of scattering those jobs across isolated pages.
Browse resourcesA level-organized library for graded reading, annotation, short summaries, and read-and-listen readiness across the academy.
Browse resourcesA dedicated place for oral planning, role-play, mediation, and repair work so speaking stays connected to the rest of the academy.
Browse resourcesThemed word packs with gender, examples, and audio — drill them with flashcards and quizzes.
Browse resourcesSurvival phrases for real situations, with audio and practical notes.
Browse resourcesFully conjugated key verbs across the core tenses — tap any form to hear it.
Browse resourcesTrain the famous French numbers: listen or read, then type the digits.
Browse resourcesA working pronunciation desk for French sounds, rhythm, liaison, and repeat-after-listening repair habits.
Browse resourcesA working grammar desk for articles, agreement, tense control, pronouns, and sentence repair.
Browse resourcesKeep essential verb patterns visible as you move from beginner to advanced use.
Browse resourcesA function-based phrasebank for opinion, comparison, agreement, disagreement, hedging, clarification, and formal transitions.
Browse resourcesA writing-model desk for messages, formal responses, syntheses, and revision-aware genre planning.
Browse resourcesTrain the vowel contrasts and accent-mark habits that absolute beginners need first.
Browse resourcesTarget one of the most common beginner pronunciation problems with rounded-vowel drills.
Browse resourcesReduce beginner decoding mistakes by training silent-letter expectations and common liaison habits.
Browse resourcesA calm but serious first month that turns absolute-beginner enthusiasm into repeatable A0 to A1 habits.
Open study plansA structured plan for learners who want to move from A0 foundations toward steady B1 habits.
Open study plansA focused plan for learners who already know the core path and want to connect it to timed practice without abandoning lesson quality.
Open study plansA restart plan for learners who studied before, forgot some material, and need a calm route back without pretending to begin from zero.
Open study plansA structured six-week plan for learners who can understand a lot but need steadier spoken output, repair language, and oral confidence.
Open study plansAn eight-week plan for learners who want stronger writing, cleaner revision, and a clearer bridge from B-level structure into C-level synthesis habits.
Open study plansA practical plan for learners who want travel French for transport, food, accommodation, and everyday problem solving without abandoning structure.
Open study plansAn exam-focused DELF B2 route that treats B2 as a cycle of structure, evidence, and repair instead of a stack of full mocks.
Open study plansA study-abroad plan for learners who need campus survival, presentations, lecture notes, and source-based academic habits.
Open study plansA professional path for learners who need formal requests, register control, briefings, and workplace-facing written or oral structure.
Open study plans