Right from the start you'll begin working with powerful structures and key vocabulary so that you can build useful French sentences. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and making travel arrangements with confidence.

You'll build upon these skills through practice with key verbs and adjectives so that you can express your needs and desires in diverse situations with considerable detail. As you learn how to use possessives, pronouns, and form future tense sentences, you'll expand your range of communication while adding an important level of depth to your interactions. You'll become comfortable with liaisons, contractions, and noun genders, making your speech more accurate and natural. Meanwhile, further work on location along with important commands will round out your introduction to the French language, leaving you well-prepared to dive into your experiences in the French-speaking world.

You'll begin perfecting your verb conjugations in the very beginning, including the infamous passé composé and important irregular verbs. From there, you'll continue to build upon the structures learned in French 1, so that your journey through this second level leads to more complex and meaningful interactions in restaurants, travel agencies, stores, and with friends. You'll buy clothing from boutique stores and a cell phone for your trip; you'll enjoy local cuisine at restaurants, and visit museums with friends. And as your ability to express location—along with giving and understanding directions—grows, you'll find yourself thoroughly prepared for navigating any French-speaking city.

As with all Fluenz programs, these critical scenarios provide the setting through which your grasp of the language's fundamentals is steadily developed. By enhancing your ability with the central topics covered in the previous level (such as articles, pronouns, verbs, genders, liaisons, and contractions), you'll solidify your foundation in the language. Meanwhile, the introduction of new structures and vocabulary (such as reflexive verbs, comparatives, and superlatives) combines with more serious responsibilities, such as going to the doctor and handling office tasks, preparing you to engage more seriously with the French-speaking world.

By the time we arrive at Level 3, the foundation has been set for a pivotal moment of growth. Building upon all that has been learned in the previous levels, your depth and range of communication will quickly broaden. As your skills develop with adverbs and coloquial phrases, your conversations will become more fluid and natural. Meanwhile extensive work on reflexive verbs—a very common feature in French—and direct/indirect object pronouns will add a key dimension of complexity to your speech. In the end, other important topics, such as new uses for the passé composé, adverbs, and expressing opinions and preferences will combine with more real-world vocabulary to bring you to a impressive level of competency in French.

Throughout the program, you'll use these skills at home and in the office, while talking to people about your studies and professional life, and in order to rent an apartment. You'll also shop, dine, and enjoy the entertainment that the great cities and communities of the French-speaking world have to offer. By the end of Fluenz French 3, you'll have taken a major step towards becoming a serious French speaker, capable of handling intricate conversations and complicated situations with confidence.

Fluenz French 4 continues adding critical pieces to your communication. From colloquial expressions to more refined object pronoun use, this level expands on the sophistication developed with Fluenz French 3. It also addresses topics that allow you express a much wider range of emotion, from opinions and preferences to wishes and desires--and even verb forms and structures that communicate obligation

These areas of the language fit perfectly with the situations you'll find yourself in as you journey through the level. You'll hold conversations about your family and childhood, cultural issues, interests, and more. At the same time, you will acquire the necessary skills for integrating yourself more deeply in a French-speaking community. You'll learn how to address issues of season and climate, open or close a bank account, and handle more complicated issues. Fluenz French 4 is where you begin to develop the ability to move beyond being just a tourist, student, doctor, or business professional who can capably interact with the French-speaking world. With Fluenz French 4, you begin to become a part of the community.

Fluenz French 5 builds on the skills acquired through the previous level, adding substantial layers of subtlety and sophistication to your ability with the language. You'll master complex grammatical issues like the use of the preterite vs. imperfect past tenses, speak more naturally through colloquial expressions, and communicate more fluidly with greater diversity in tone and structure. As with all Fluenz French programs, these skills are developed over the course of 30 full sessions that will take you on a journey through real, daily-life experiences in the French-speaking world. You'll plan memorable trips with friends, arrange meetings with colleagues, discuss the arts, and exchange delicious recipes. You'll also further your ability to handle those things that are critical to establishing yourself more deeply in a community, from taking care of legal matters to more formal writing.

While there will of course still exist many ways to improve your French, and building a larger vocabulary will allow you to discuss a wider range of topics, Fluenz French 5 will bring you to a point where grammar will no longer be an obstacle to communication. By the time you complete this level, you will truly be an experienced French speaker.