Foreign Language French - Basic study guide
Foreign Language French - Basic · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Foreign Language French - Basic credential certifies that a learner can handle everyday French at an elementary level: understanding slow, clearly articulated speech, reading short notices and messages, using core grammar and vocabulary in context, managing simple spoken exchanges, writing brief notes and filling in forms, and recognising basic cultural conventions such as greetings and formal address. It suits students, travellers, and professionals who need documented evidence of beginner-level French for study, migration files, or job applications, and it also works as a first milestone before intermediate study. The Foreign Language French - Basic study guide has 6 sections and about 2,989 words.
01Listening comprehension - spoken French at basic level
Domain 1 - Listening comprehension: spoken French at basic level. Short recordings - station announcements, shop dialogues, numbers, times, directions - test whether you can extract one fact or one intention.
489 words, about 2 min02Reading comprehension - short texts and notices
Domain 2 - Reading comprehension: short texts and notices. You will meet signs, labels, timetables, small ads, emails and form instructions of two to eight lines.
442 words, about 2 min03Grammar and vocabulary in context
Domain 3 - Grammar and vocabulary in context. This domain tests whether you can choose the right form inside a sentence: article, gender and agreement, verb tense, pronoun, preposition.
531 words, about 3 min04Everyday spoken interaction and functional phrases
Domain 4 - Everyday spoken interaction and functional phrases. This domain tests the formulas that make an exchange work: greeting, requesting, apologising, asking someone to repeat, closing.
530 words, about 3 min05Written production - short messages and forms
Domain 5 - Written production: short messages and forms. You will write a postcard, a short email, an invitation or a reply of roughly 40–80 words, and complete a form with personal details.
507 words, about 3 min06Cultural and sociolinguistic awareness
Domain 6 - Cultural and sociolinguistic awareness. This domain tests whether your French would land correctly with a real speaker: which greeting, which pronoun, which day, which hour.
490 words, about 2 min