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Basic User A1 Basic User A2 Independent User B1  Independent User B2 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C2 Course title Basic User A1.1 Course number [FA101] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Introduce yourself; Spell; Count; Give basic information such as name, nationality, age, address, phone number; Talk about your tastes, your dreams and hopes; Talk about your city and your favorite places, Ask/give explanations; Ask information about housing; Thank and react to thanks; Understand/give directions; Give your impression about a place; Talk about your activities; Say what the weather is like; Write a postcard/an email Back to top Course title Basic User A1.2 Course number [FA102] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Suggest/accept/refuse an outing; Make an appointment; Give instructions; Ask/give the time; Talk about your schedule and habits; Understand an opinion pool and make questions; Talk about past events; Make plans in the future; Talk about your family; Describe someone; Give/answer a phone call; Talk about the weather; Talk about seasons; Express sensations, perceptions and feelings. Back to top Course title Basic User A1.3 Course number [FA103] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Present/give characteristics about a place; Talk about your hobbies; Talk about your eating habits; Understand/create a menu; Describe an outfit; Give a positive/negative judgment (about clothes, people, etc.); Ask/give fitting size; Give advice; Select a gift for someone; Characterize an object and give its function; Shop; Give precise quantities; Make a reservation at the theater; Order at a restaurant; Express satisfaction/complains at the restaurant; Talk about memories; Compare an old situation to a current situation. Back to top Course title Basic User A2.1 Course number [FA201] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Describe your living place; Talk about a room and its function; Look for a new place; Understand/ask information on a place and its rental conditions; Talk about relationship with roommates; Identify differences in behaviors; Understand/express recommendations and restrictions; Talk about friendship; Describe someone (temperament, qualities and flaws); Talk about your relationship with your neighbors; Report someone’s speech; compare/talk about changes; Talk about an encounter; Talk about the outcome of an encounter; Understand a job offering; Present yourself in a professional context; Understand/write a resume and a letter; Give advice and indicate necessary changes; Talk about a professional experience; Talk about your job. Back to top Course title Basic User A2.2ser A2.2 Course number [FA202] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about a country and its inhabitants; Talk about stereotypes; Make a comparison; Justify your choices; Understand new titles; React and give your opinion; Make a testimony about an event; Express appreciation; Express wishes/hopes using the subjunctive; Make suggestions; Express a goal; Present a project; Imagine a hypothetical situation; Express causality and consequences; Express agreement and disagreement. Back to top Course title Basic User A2.3 Course number [FA203] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about yourself in a fictitious situation; Report speech in the past; Talk about a change in your living situation; Talk about an exceptional event; Express regrets and feelings; Express your opinion and take a stand; Imagine a different past; Talk about different steps of an event; Talk about your readings; Ask to borrow something; Express your discontentment, your irritability; Understand arguments; Complain; Protest; Write a letter of complaint; Talk about social facts. Back to top Course title Independent User B1.1 Course number [FB101] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Express your opinion on a polemical subject; Understand/write a poem; Describe/take information about an object or a technological innovation; Express a judgment and make recommendations/warnings; React by writing to an advertisement; Ask for precision on a service; Talk about your/someone's physical appearance; Ask information/advice by e-mail; Praise/reproach somebody for something; Give advice/orders/suggestions. Back to top Course title Independent User B1.2 Course number [FB102] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about consumerism; Write a complaint letter; Make comparisons; Negotiate and discuss a price; Report someone's speech; Make a warning; Talk about learning process; talk about your past experiences; Make concessions; Talk about French universities. Back to top Course title Independent User B1.3 Course number [FB103] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about newspapers/magazines; Write a friendly letter to give news or information; Understand news titles; relate an event in a narrative article; use the passive form; Understand an article of information; Express cause and consequences; talk about uncertain events; Defend and take a position; Encourage and talk about cooperation; Talk about important events for a country; Express purposes; Express duration; Convince. Back to top Course title Independent User B1.4 Course number [FB104] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about paintings; Talk about French artists, French people and cultural activities; Give your impressions; Interview someone; Participate/speak in a debate; Talk about ecology; Talk about your neighborhood; Express an hypothetical idea; Forbid. Back to top Course title Independent User B1.5 Course number [FB105] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about the law; Understand law facts; Write a formal letter to contest a ticket; Express your opinion; Differences between the law in Great Britain and France; Make an articulate argument; Traveling; Make changes to your trip over the phone; Solve a problem over the phone; Make recommendations; Relate a story in the past. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.1 Course number [FB201] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Understand a debate on the radio; Take part in a discussion and express your opinion; Express certainty and doubts; Talk about beliefs and superstitions; Understand the French political system; Some French philosophers; Understand confidences; talk about an encounter. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.2 Course number [FB202] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Talk about love; Ask people about their feelings; Create the portrait of an ideal person; Write a breakup/love letter; Write a diary; Talk about the meanings of our white lies; Love in literature/songs; Understand a news report on the radio; Explain tastes and choices related to newspapers and TV; Understand a review about TV; Understand the presentation of a physical place on the radio; Express tastes related to travel/vacations. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.3 Course number [FB203] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Compare different means of transportation; Organize a trip to France; Understand an article on tourism and trips; Understand a tourist guide; Relate your trip; Present a city/area; write a complaint letter; Understand a story on the radio about art and history; Express tastes and choices related to art; Understand a text talking about art; Find positive and negative points in a text; Select a museum in a guide book; Write a claim to an insurance company about a disaster. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.4 Course number [FB204] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Understand a biographical story on the radio; Write a biography of a historical person; Understand a presentation on history; Discuss historical facts/characters; Relate the life of someone; Discover different aspects of French history; Talk about French Heads of Government; Understand a debate on food; Understand a radio show on the body and health; Express taste about food; Talk about health issues; Express taste related to sports; Understand a text about food. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.5 Course number [FB205] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Understand/write a recipe; Orders and questions in a restaurant; French cuisine; Give advice to someone; Understand a debate on the environment; Understand a forecast on the radio; Talk about animals; Understand a show that makes science accessible to the general public; Debate about the future; Express plans. Back to top Course title Independent User B2.6 Course number [FB206] Total hours 30 hours Tuition $600 (Payment plan available) Aims Write a letter to stop a subscription; Sciences and techniques; French inventors and their inventions; Talk about social issues; Talk about a personal experience; Understand a text on work; Talk about foreigners in France. Back to top Private lessons are available. Please call 212-697-8374 Back to top Private lessons are available. Please call 212-697-8374 Back to top Please call or e-mail us to make an appointment for a placement test/interview unless you are an absolute beginner.

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