French Classes at our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine. Serving students in Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Santa Ana and Laguna Beach California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door Orange County offers small interactive French classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning French fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Please check the schedules:
For the adult beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
French
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette
or CD package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Introductions, describing people and
things, filling out forms, making a date, household objects, and expressing
likes and dislikes.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, subject pronouns, "to be" and "to have", the
present tense of regular verbs, gender, articles, plural, adjective
agreement, numbers, prepositions, negation, adjectives, some irregular
verbs, etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-12)
Topics - At the train station, at a restaurant,
at the pharmacy, the weekend, family, and asking for directions.
Grammar and usage - "There is/are", question words, time, additional irregular verbs,
begin comparatives, quantity expressions, the imperative form, impersonal
verbs, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 13-19)
Topics - Everyday life, at work, department
store, telephone, at the bank, the market, and housing.
Grammar and usage - Reflexive verbs, exclamations, the immediate past, location
pronoun, direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, reciprocal verbs,
prices and paying, comparatives, superlatives, ordinal numbers, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-26)
Topics - At the hotel, health, automobiles,
cafés and restaurants, sports, on the street, and computer science.
Grammar and usage - Past tense, reflexive verbs in the past tense, additional
irregular verbs, the imperfect tense, possessive pronouns, direct object
pronouns in the past tense, adverbs, late/early/on time, additional
idiomatic expressions, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 27-33)
Topics - At the dentist's, movies, tourism,
household items, at the airport, at the museum, and exercising.
Grammar and usage - Relative pronouns, additional irregular verbs, the pluperfect,
telling or asking someone to do something, indefinite pronouns, future
tense, present conditional tense, professions, past conditional tense, parts
of the body, etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 34-40)
Topics - Vacation, media, at the flea market,
politics, professions, schools and universities, and literature.
Grammar and usage - Present participle, usage of the infinitive, sequence of tenses,
reported speech, the subjunctive, past subjunctive, additional irregular
verbs, additional idiomatic expressions, written versus spoken French, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact our Orange County Language Door School in Irvine.
Feedback from Our Students
"Course is great for beginners. It helps to have had a romance language
prior, or to have heard French before. Hayden [the teacher] is open,
forgiving, and encouraging. Everyone relaxes and has fun, but we still
learn every week. He is good at gently controlling the students who are
a bit too eager and answer (jump in too soon) for others who are
struggling," Jennifer.
"My course is great. I will like to learn more French," Jerald.
"Our class is pretty small so we can ask more questions and get more attention.
The teacher is very precise and makes sure we understand," Naomi.
"Everything is going fantastic. [The teacher] is going at a nice pace for
me. The class is small and intimate, easy for learning," Daniel.
"Very well prepared, informed, engaging instruction," Ben.
"Great course! Excellent teacher! That makes the class very interesting," Nithyna.
"After many attempts to learn a second language I decided to give Language Door San Diego a try. I really liked that they didn't try to sell me on a "gimmick." I had fallen victim to so many pricy programs that did no more than spoon feed me canned phrases to memorize. Language Door was going to be my final attempt. I am so grateful that I gave it a try. The classes are small and convenient and they are extremely reasonably priced. The best part however is that I'm really learning the French language, not just memorizing phrases. It also helps that Erik just happens to be an excellent instructor who really has a passion for what he does. Thanks language Door!" – Michelle, San Diego School
"Very nice atmosphere - exactly what I hoped for. The text and tapes are
excellent supplements to the class," Evan.
"The teacher wants his students to succeed and does everything he can to facilitate learning,"
Carol.
"Both the course and the teacher have been very good.
The course is really helping me learn to speak French,
and the teacher not only knowledgeable, but also has the 'gift' of teaching.
I find the size of class perfect, the environment comfortable, the atmosphere friendly,
the time/day convenient, and more. But most important, the teacher is patient, creative
and dedicated...I wouldn't change anything about the way the course is being conducted...
I recommend Language Door to everyone. I love the concept, organization and opportunities
provided by this society. It is exactly what I was looking for - a comfortable,
friendly and relaxing place, as well as affordable and well-located, where I can learn
French at a convenient time and at a good pace with the assistance of a knowledgeable
and motivating teacher. My best comment is that from the first visit to this office,
I have been welcomed!" Flavia.
"I like the small size of the class, since it makes everyone get involved. The book is excellent!" Parissa.
"Great - lots of info but very good class," Jamie.
Language Description
French
belongs to the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European
family of languages. More than 70 million people speak French as their
mother tongue, and most of them reside in France (55 million speakers),
Canada (6.5 million), Belgium (3 million) and former French and Belgian
colonies in Africa (5 million).
Further Information
For further information about Los Angeles French classes, San Fernando Valley French classes, Orange
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