DELF · DALF · TCF · TEF — A1 to C2
From your first bonjour to the band you need.
Alors puts French grammar, vocabulary and officialdom into one study system: block-structured units with inline exercises, a spaced-repetition deck, generated conjugation drills over 409 verbs, and exam mocks that reproduce the real paper — including the adaptive TCF and TEF, reported as an NCLC band.
Built for a multilingual intake: every false friend is tagged with the language it traps, so you see the ones that are yours.
What's inside
Everything a language demands. Nothing that just fills space.
Learning French is not passing one exam once: it is keeping thousands of words and dozens of rules alive for months, across four skills only one of which is multiple choice.
Grammar, A1 to C2
From the alphabet to the literary subjunctive, level by level. A1 and A2 explanations carry an English gloss alongside the French; from B1 they stay French-only, because by then reading the explanation is the exercise.
Vocabulary that sticks
Every card carries an example sentence and is scheduled by spaced repetition, so it comes back just before you would have forgotten it rather than at random.
Infinite conjugation
409 verbs x 16 tenses x every person, produced by a conjugation engine rather than stored. The drill leans towards the (verb, tense) pairs you keep getting wrong.
Dictation and listening
Hear the sentence in French, type it, and get it back word by word with the mistakes underlined. No audio files to record, license or ship — your browser's own French voice reads it.
Writing and speaking
Exam-style prompts with a live word count, a checklist of what an examiner looks for, and a countdown for the spoken part.
The French of officialdom
Récépissé, justificatif de domicile, délai d'instruction, silence vaut rejet: the vocabulary, the letter templates and the counter dialogue that decide whether a file moves.
False friends, by language
Actuellement is not “actually”; pourtant is not “portanto”; salir is not “to go out”. Each trap is tagged with the language it catches, so you see yours and not somebody else's.
Progress that points
Accuracy by skill and by topic, a day streak, deck strength, and — for a TCF or TEF candidate — the NCLC band your practice converts to.
The path
Four levels, one staircase
You pick where you are; nothing is locked. Your level only decides what gets highlighted and which new words enter the deck.
A1 — First steps
Introduce yourself, order a coffee, read a timetable, hold a present tense and an everyday past. Everything that makes a French sentence stand up.
A2 — Telling what happened
Imperfect, pronouns, y and en, the future, the imperative. This is where French stops being a handful of phrases and becomes a language.
B1 — Arguing and getting things done
Subjunctive, conditional, hypothesis, reported speech, relative pronouns and the French of public offices. The level naturalisation asks for.
B2 — Register and the written argument
Participle agreement, concession, nominalisation and register. The level a French university asks for, and NCLC 7 for Canada.
C1 — Command
Passé simple, implicit clauses, sentence architecture, figurative language. The level where you stop translating in your head.
C2 — Mastery
Synthesis of documents, rhetoric, deliberate style. The DALF C2, and what French master's programmes ask for.