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A complete CEFR B1–B2 French course — 🇫🇷 France and 🇨🇦 Canada side by side

🌟 What This Tier Covers

Twenty-six lessons take you from the end of A2 to a confident B2. The beginner course gave you the machinery to build a sentence; this one gives you the subjunctive, the conditional, the compound tenses, the relative pronouns and the agreement rules that let you build a paragraph — and then an argument.

The second half turns outward. Register, slang, the literary passé simple, idioms, formal writing, authentic media, a full Québécois deep dive, and a DELF strategy lesson to finish. By the end you can read a French novel, follow a news bulletin, write a formal complaint and defend an opinion.

Built in: audio on every word · a separate spaced-repetition review deck · flashcards · self-check quizzes · written exercises · a learning journal · progress tracking.

Every lesson keeps the 🇫🇷/🇨🇦 comparison — and at B2 it finally pays off in register, administrative language and media, not just vocabulary.

🟠 B1 — Consolidation

Lessons 1–13. The core machinery: the compound tenses, all three si-clauses, the whole subjunctive, the full relative-pronoun system, participle agreement and reported speech.

1 B1 Le Plus-que-parfait Step behind the past you already know: the tense for what had already happened when your story opens. 📍 Forms · PQP vs PC vs imparfait · si seulement · après avoir / être 2 B1 Le Futur Antérieur & Future Time Clauses Say what will already be finished — and fix the quand-clause mistake every English speaker makes. 📍 j'aurai fini · quand / dès que / une fois que + futur · supposition 3 B1 Le Conditionnel Présent & Passé The whole tense behind je voudrais: politeness, hypothesis, advice, regret — and the journalistic conditional. 📍 Futur stem + imparfait endings · devrais / aurais dû · au cas où · la presse 4 B1 Les Phrases avec Si All three hypothesis types, mixed types, and the one rule that breaks everyone. 📍 Type 1/2/3 · never si + futur · à moins que · si = whether 5 B1 Le Subjonctif Présent The biggest gap between A2 and real B1 French — forms, the eight irregulars, and the three trigger families. 📍 ils- stem · sois / aie / aille / fasse · volonté · émotion · doute 6 B1 Le Subjonctif — Conjunctions & Impersonals The mechanical subjunctives: the conjunction appears, the mood follows. 📍 bien que · pour que · avant que · il faut que · superlatifs · ne explétif 7 B1 Le Subjonctif Passé & Choosing Your Mood Close the topic with a decision procedure — and learn how good French dodges the subjunctive. 📍 que j'aie fait · indicatif vs subjonctif vs infinitif · espérer · la fuite élégante 8 B1 Relative Pronouns in Depth Dont has no English equivalent, and lequel is a table. Both unlock complex sentences. 📍 dont · lequel / auquel / duquel · ce qui / ce que / ce dont · le jour où 9 B1 Verbs + à / de / Bare Infinitive Why commencer à but décider de — sorted into patterns you can actually remember. 📍 Three patterns · demander à qqn de · y vs en · meaning shifts 10 B1 Past-Participle Agreement with Avoir The rule you were told didn't exist. Distinctly French, and in every DELF written paper. 📍 Preceding COD · que · réflexifs · les invariables · audible or silent 11 B1 The Passive, On, and Se Faire French has a passive and avoids it. Learn the three things it uses instead. 📍 être + participe · par vs de · on · ça se dit · se faire + infinitif 12 B1 Participe Présent, Gérondif & Adjectif Verbal One ending, three jobs — and the spelling pairs that catch people out. 📍 en + -ant · tout en · invariable vs accordé · fatiguant / fatigant 13 B1 Le Discours Indirect & La Concordance des Temps Relay what someone said, with the full back-shift map. 📍 présent → imparfait · futur → conditionnel · si / ce que · la veille

🔴 B2 — Refinement

Lessons 14–26. Nuance and reach: the causative, precise negation, the register ladder, slang, literary and press French, vocabulary at scale, idiom, argument, formal writing, authentic media, Québécois in depth — and the DELF.

14 B2 Le Faire Causatif One French construction for English's have, make and get — with its own pronoun and agreement rules. 📍 faire + infinitif · fait invariable · à / par · se faire · laisser / voir 15 B2 Negation & Restriction in Depth Beyond ne… pas: how to say “only”, how to negate formally, and what the dropped ne really means. 📍 ne… que · guère / nullement · ni… ni · ne pas + infinitif · sans 16 B2 The Register Ladder At B2, “correct French” stops being one target. Register is grammar, not just vocabulary. 📍 soutenu · courant · familier · on vs nous · tu / vous at B2 17 B2 Argot, Verlan & Screen French Understand what you'll actually hear — and know when not to say it. 📍 Verlan mechanics · meuf / keuf / relou · bosser / kiffer · SMS & internet 18 B2 Reading Literary & Journalistic French Il fut, elle vint — the tense nobody speaks and everybody reads. 📍 Passé simple · passé antérieur · subjonctif imparfait · la syntaxe des titres 19 B2 Building & Decoding Vocabulary Stop learning words one at a time: decode them from their parts. 📍 Préfixes · suffixes & genre · nominalisation · faux amis · paires de nuance 20 B2 Idioms & Expressions Figées What still marks you as a learner is that your French is literal. 📍 Body · animal · food idioms · proverbes · register · guessing from context 21 B2 Argumentation, Opinion & Debate The level at which you stop describing and start arguing — exactly what DELF B2 tests. 📍 Thèse / antithèse / synthèse · certes… mais · connecteurs · nuancer 22 B2 Formal Writing — Lettre & Courriel French correspondence is codified, which makes it learnable. 📍 Formule d'appel · formule de politesse · courriel pro · la réclamation 23 B2 Le CV & la Lettre de Motivation A French CV is not an English one translated — and a Québec CV is not a French one. 📍 Sections · verbes d'action · vous–moi–nous · 🇫🇷 vs 🇨🇦 · l'entretien 24 B2 Understanding Authentic Media You can read the textbook, then the news dissolves into sound. Here's why, and what to do. 📍 Parole enchaînée · chuis / y'a / t'as · le JT · film & sous-titres · sources 25 B2 Le Français Québécois — B2 Deep Dive The course's signature, at full depth: a complete standard variety, not a list of quirks. 📍 Affrication · joual & registre · lexique · anglicismes · sacres · la loi 101 26 B2 DELF B1 & B2 — Exam Strategy Not new grammar — how to prove what you now know. The capstone. 📍 Les 4 épreuves · la note éliminatoire · stratégie par épreuve · plan de révision

🧰 Practice Tools

Reference and practice that runs across the whole intermediate tier.

✓ B1–B2 Can-Do Checklist The CEFR B1 and B2 descriptors as a tickable list, linked to the lesson that teaches each one. 📍 90 can-do statements · Progress bars · Self-assessment 📖 Glossary Every word from all 26 intermediate lessons in one searchable place, with audio and links back. 📍 520 words · Search · Filter by lesson · Add to review deck 📋 Grammar Cheat Sheet Every tense recipe, trigger list, agreement rule and formula of the tier, formatted to print. 📍 Compound tenses · Si-clauses · Subjonctif · Connecteurs · DELF 📚 Graded Readings Eight B1–B2 pieces — dialogues, an opinion article, a press item and a Québécois récit. 📍 62 lines · Hide the English · Check your understanding 🔊 Pronunciation Reader Type any French text and hear it read aloud, with silent letters, nasal vowels and liaisons marked. 📍 Text-to-speech · Silent letters · Nasal vowels · Liaison · IPA 📇 Anki Deck The whole intermediate vocabulary as two-way Anki cards (French↔English), tagged by lesson. 📍 B1–B2 notes · Two-way cards · Download & import

🎓 Finished B2? Continue to C1–C2

The advanced course picks up exactly where this one stops: the subjunctive as a choice, the long sentence, nominal style, the full connective inventory, the hard agreements, liaison and prosody, the grammar of spoken French — then word history, expert typography, the academic and legal registers, rhetoric, literature, verse, translation and the DALF.

→ C1–C2 French Advanced (C1–C2) Twenty-four more lessons, from the end of B2 to genuine mastery — with its own glossary, cheat sheet, register readings, can-do checklist and Anki deck. Your progress there is tracked separately. 📍 24 lessons · Accords · Liaison · Francophonie · Littérature · DALF

🎓 Where to Next

Finished the tier? Work through the B1–B2 can-do checklist to find your gaps, then sit the DELF — or go straight on to the C1–C2 course. Going back for a refresher is always worth it — the A1–A2 course keeps its own separate progress.