If you are an absolute beginner, you can register for the A1.1 class. If you already know or speak some French, even if the last time was many years ago in high school, make sure to take your free placement test. You can learn more about our levels and how long it takes to learn French here.
Our policies have changed! Make sure to read them before you register.
For online learning: In the event of power and/or internet outages, here are some general tips:
– If you experience a power outage or a Zoom interruption at your home, please contact the Education Dept. via email: adultprograms@frenchlibrary.org or at (617) 912-0400. You might also want to be in touch with the teacher directly, to make arrangements to review any missed material.
– If a teacher loses connection during a class, please stay in your virtual classroom for a few minutes while the teacher logs back in. If your teacher is unable to make it back quickly, please check your e-mail for further instructions from your teacher or a member of the education team.
Find Your Class
B2| French Express (Intensive Week)
Don't have the time to attend a full session this spring? Not a problem! Join us for our new French Express program! 15h of French in one week. Are you ready for the challenge? French Express is designed to connect language structures directly to real-world use, ensuring fast progress, high engagement, and immediate results in an immersive, supportive environment. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR THE SPRING FRENCH EXPRESS WILL CLOSE ON JUNE 6.
A1 French Express (Intensive Week)
Don't have the time to attend a full session this spring? Not a problem! Join us for our new French Express program! 15h of French in one week. Are you ready for the challenge? French Express is designed to connect language structures directly to real-world use, ensuring fast progress, high engagement, and immediate results in an immersive, supportive environment. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR THE SPRING FRENCH EXPRESS WILL CLOSE ON JUNE 6.
B1 | French Express (Intensive Week)
Don't have the time to attend a full session this spring? Not a problem! Join us for our new French Express program! 15h of French in one week. Are you ready for the challenge? French Express is designed to connect language structures directly to real-world use, ensuring fast progress, high engagement, and immediate results in an immersive, supportive environment. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR THE SPRING FRENCH EXPRESS WILL CLOSE ON JUNE 6.
A2 | French Express (Intensive Week)
Don't have the time to attend a full session this spring? Not a problem! Join us for our new French Express program! 15h of French in one week. Are you ready for the challenge? French Express is designed to connect language structures directly to real-world use, ensuring fast progress, high engagement, and immediate results in an immersive, supportive environment. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION FOR THE SPRING FRENCH EXPRESS WILL CLOSE ON JUNE 6.
B1-3 | Intermediate French 3 | In Person
Keep looking forward and making progress! Learn how to talk about your career path, express enthusiasm for a professional project, understand and give advice for an interview, take risks, describe your typical workday and more.
B1-2 | Intermediate French 2 | In Person
You're ready to move on to bigger and better things! Describe different behaviors, talk about and suggest outings or events, give advice, talk about family activities, go out as a group, analyze different customs and traditions, and more.
A2-1 | Advanced Beginner French 1
Time to go beyond the basics! Gain the grammar, vocabulary, and confidence you'll need to comprehend an excerpt from a piece of literature, describe a photograph, share a memory (happy or otherwise), read a tourist manual, and much more.
A1-4 short track | Beginner French 4
You don't have time for a 10-week class? No worries! We have you covered. Our A1-4 “Short Track” option is your course! With the same 3 hours of instruction per week as our standard-length class, this new program is perfect for students who cannot make the financial or time commitment of 10 weeks of intensive learning. But just because you’re short on time, doesn’t mean you can’t live life to the fullest! By the end of our A1 Short Track program, students will feel just as confident moving into A2 as their standard language class cohort! Two things to know before registering: 1. This short track program requires that you spend time outside of time class to work on homework and 2. you cannot transfer from/to short track to/from regular track.
A2-1 short track | Advanced Beginner French 1
Just because you’re short on time, doesn’t mean you can’t live life to the fullest! By the end of our A2 Short Track program, students will feel just as confident moving into B1 as their standard language class cohort!
B1 | Intermediate Conversation
Master the art of conversation while perfecting the finer points of your grammar through the fun and varied speaking activities in this course!
B1+ | Listen Up! | In Person
Strengthen your listening skills while improving your vocabulary and grammar by engaging with a variety of fascinating audio media, including podcasts, readings, and mini role plays!
A2+ | Listen Up!
Strengthen your listening skills while improving your vocabulary and grammar by engaging with a variety of fascinating audio media, including podcasts, readings, and mini role plays!
B2| La France d’Aujourd’hui : Idées, Médias et Créations
Un cours dynamique de 5 semaines pour explorer la France contemporaine : innovation, arts, médias, société numérique et transition écologique.
A1-3 | Beginner French 3 | In Person
Are you ready to kick-start your French education? Learn how to look for an apartment, understand a room inspection, learn about lodging regulations, draft a set of rules for shared living, and much more!
A1-1 | Beginner French 1
Are you ready to kick-start your French education? Learn to Ask for and give directions, understand an itinerary, get around using public transportation, and much more! This class is for students with limited prior experience in French.
A2-1 | Advanced Beginner French 1 - Slow-Paced - Part 1 | In Person
Do you like to take your time learning? Not a problem! This class will cover the first half of our A2-1 class over 10 weeks.
A1-2 | Beginner French 2
Give an opinion on an outfit, analyze a weather app, talk about the weather, ask for and give your clothing and shoe size, ask for the price, describe an object—all in French!
A1-4 | Beginner French 4 | In Person
Are you ready to kick-start your French education? Learn to understand an exchange program, describe positive experiences, express purpose, describe a professional goal, indicate a wish or desire, talk about an ability or skill, understand professional tasks. and much more!
A2-1 | Advanced Beginner French 1
Time to go beyond the basics! Gain the grammar, vocabulary, and confidence you'll need to comprehend an excerpt from a piece of literature, describe a photograph, share a memory (happy or otherwise), read a tourist manual, and much more.
A2-3 | Advanced Beginner French 3
Keep building your language skills and awareness. In this class, you will learn how to interpret a chart about names, speak to someone’s character, describe someone, talk about your emotions and much more!
A2-2 | Advanced Beginner French 2 | In Person
Do you want to discuss jobs of the future, describe the future, highlight the utility of an object, express intent or remind someone of something? Do you want to do all of that in French? You can! Plus you'll improve your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation skills at the same time.
B1-1| Edito Pro | In Person
Identify criteria for something, be cautious or aware of something, express your wishes and intentions, ask politely for something, talk over the phone, give advice, outline a hypothetical situation, describe a memory, a place, a visit to a foreign city and more!
A2-4 | Advanced Beginner French 4
This class will give you the skills to understand a tourist brochure, reserve a stay somewhere, research a destination online, express your indifference towards a situation and more!
A2+/ B1 | French Idioms | In Person
Have fun with Florine as you dive into French idioms the way they’re really used—naturally and in context. Through lively conversations, anecdotes, and real-life examples, you’ll explore French culture, traditions, and ways of thinking, all through the lens of language. It’s an immersive, enjoyable way to build your vocabulary while gaining deeper insight into what makes French culture unique.
B1+ | A la découverte de… la Belgique
Known for its medieval towns, Renaissance architecture and as headquarters of the European Union and NATO, Belgium has a lot to offer. The country has distinctive regions including Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north, French-speaking Wallonia to the south and a German-speaking community to the east. The bilingual capital, Brussels, has ornate guildhalls at Grand-Place and elegant art-nouveau buildings. Join Eva to learn all about the history, culture and food of Belgium.
B2-1 | Advanced French 1 | In Person
Build upon your French skills by studying advanced grammar concepts and performing challenging tasks. Talk about fashion and trends, talk about food fads, look at different travel trends and more!
B1-1 | Intermediate French 1 | In Person
Identify criteria for something, be cautious or aware of something, express your wishes and intentions, ask politely for something, talk over the phone, give advice, outline a hypothetical situation, describe a memory, a place, a visit to a foreign city and more!
B1+/ B2 | Les Classiques de la littérature française - Part 2 | In Person
Explorez ou revisitez les œuvres majeures et les auteurs emblématiques de la littérature française — de Molière à Camus, de Balzac à Duras — dans un cadre pédagogique dynamique et interactif. À partir d’extraits soigneusement sélectionnés, de débats argumentés et d’activités communicatives, ce cours propose une immersion dans la langue, la culture et l’imaginaire français. Il constitue une opportunité privilégiée pour perfectionner vos compétences conversationnelles, enrichir votre lexique et approfondir votre compréhension des fondements du prestige culturel français, tout en cultivant le plaisir de la lecture et de l’échange intellectuel.
B2 | Maîtrise de la grammaire: les temps difficiles| In Person
Ce cours propose une exploration systématique — ou un perfectionnement — des temps verbaux souvent négligés : subjonctif présent, imparfait et plus‑que‑parfait, passé simple, futur et passé antérieur, ainsi que les conditionnels. L’accent sera mis sur le passé simple et le subjonctif, indispensables à la lecture de la littérature mais trop peu maîtrisés. L’objectif : faciliter l’accès aux textes littéraires. Au programme : une approche historique de ces temps, des exercices ciblés et ludiques, la lecture d’extraits d’auteurs classiques, ainsi que des ateliers d’écriture pour mettre activement en pratique ces conjugaisons.
A1-2 | Beginner French 2
Give an opinion on an outfit, analyze a weather app, talk about the weather, ask for and give your clothing and shoe size, ask for the price, describe an object—all in French!