Award-Winning French Courses & Classes in Albuquerque, NM

If you're studying French, whether it's for academic, personal, or professional reasons, getting extra practice in an Albuquerque French course provided by Varsity Tutors could be just the boost you need. With the advantage of online study, the French course can be taken from anywhere, which can help you fit it into your schedule.

French is an official or main spoken language in dozens of countries across the world. Hundreds of millions of people speak French, and it's a common language for business, second only to English. Learning to read, write, understand, and speak French well can have a positive impact on many areas of your life.

What material is covered in an Albuquerque French course?

There is a great deal to absorb when it comes to learning a new language. Fortunately, French is one of the Romance languages, which means it's more closely related to English than many others. In fact, there are everyday words we use in English that are French, such as fiancé, denouement, and silhouette. These occasional touchpoints can help the language feel more familiar and may provide a greater deal of confidence as you work to learn French.

There are also significant differences. A few examples are accented letters, gendered nouns, and certain sounds used. While you could get away with speaking French with a heavy American accent, you may feel more confident conversing with someone in a French-speaking country when you can pronounce words the way they are meant to be communicated. This could be advantageous if you're traveling to a French-speaking country when you're in the hands of French speakers for directions to the bathroom or other pertinent information.

One of the first things you'll probably learn is a great deal of vocabulary, including which gender each noun has been assigned. That's right; French nouns have genders, but they have nothing to do with a word indicating masculinity or femininity. There's nothing inherently feminine about the names of contents, for example, and nothing inherently masculine about the names of different languages. But in order to choose correct articles, adjectives, and pronouns, you must know the gender of the noun, and whether it's singular or plural.

Your online French class can include vocabulary, grammar, verb conjugation, verb tenses, question words, and so much more. To illustrate, there's no single word for our direct object pronoun: the. There are three direct object pronouns in French: le, la, and les. Then there's verb tense, which is the kind of thing you pick up in your native language just by being exposed to and using it throughout your life. You inherently recognize if something is wrong with the phrase, "going to laughed all night." But do you know why?

You can go your whole life speaking your first language without ever learning about regular and irregular tenses, past and future tenses, perfect and conditional tenses. But you know whether you should say will do, do, did, had done, have done, will have done, going to do, and so on. When you learn French, you get to learn all the tenses and what they mean. You may notice a lot of the English indicators involve the words used before the verb. In French, you'll pay more attention to how verbs end.

There's so much to learn about new languages, and your Albuquerque French course can cover any of the material that the class collectively needs to learn.

How is studying in an Albuquerque French class useful for learning the language?

Maybe you're a student at Albuquerque Academy or La Cueva High School struggling to get enough out of your large classroom lessons, or maybe you're a business professional heading to Belgium to open a small satellite office. Perhaps you're going to France for a family reunion and nobody in your branch of the family still speaks French. Are you a University of New Mexico French major interested in reading "Les Misérables" in Hugo's original French? There are nearly as many reasons to study French as there are people studying French. No matter why you're seeking help learning French, enrolling in an online Albuquerque French class is a positive step towards a future in French fluency.

It's important to be able to practice speaking French in a realistic setting. The collaborative atmosphere in an online Albuquerque French class, where you can interact with both the instructor and your fellow classmates, can provide this opportunity more easily than in a large classroom, and certainly better than if you were practicing on your own. A pitfall that often accompanies trying to study a language on your own is learning something incorrectly. It's far easier to learn pronunciation, conjugation, and all elements of a new language right the first time than it is to become familiar with, say, pronouncing a certain word incorrectly, then having to unlearn that and learn the right way.

It's widely understood that the single best way to learn a language is to use it. That's the idea behind language immersion schools for young children that continue to gain in popularity. While your French class won't be full immersion, you should have ample time for conversation. You don't have to know much to have a polite conversation saying hello, asking how someone's doing, and responding in kind. You can have a short conversation like this after just one lesson. You may spend class time conversing with your classmates while the instructor checks in on each pair or small group to correct any mispronunciation or add a term or two.

There are many ways that studying French through a quality Albuquerque French course offered by Varsity Tutors can enhance your French studies.

Sounds great. How can I get started?

New classes begin monthly and meet at different times of the day to help you find one that fits your schedule. Simply contact Varsity Tutors to find out more about available classes as well as your current level and goals, and our educational consultants can enroll you in an Albuquerque French course that can meet your needs.