French C1 · Advanced
Precise, elegant French for university and professional life: nominal style, implicit clauses, formal connectors, bureaucratic and journalistic French.
40 topics · Vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and practice.
What you will study
- Day 1Proust's language — Subjunctive imperfect and pluperfect (recognition)
- Day 2Literary criticism — Literary inversion
- Day 3Alternative history — Conditional in hypothetical inversion (eût-il su)
- Day 4Paradox — Advanced concession: tout ... que, si ... que, pour ... que
- Day 5Journalistic writing — Advanced participial and absolute constructions
- Day 6Legal reasoning — Precise connectors: dès lors, en l'occurrence, a fortiori
- Day 7Scientific research — Modalisation and hedging in academic French
- Day 8French administration — Impersonal constructions in formal register
- Day 9Geopolitics — Nominal style and noun chains
- Day 10Stand-up and humour — Register shifts: soutenu, courant, familier
- Day 11Satire — Irony and implicit meaning
- Day 12Poetry — Figures of speech: metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole
- Day 13Folk wisdom — Idioms and proverbs
- Day 14Professional writing — Precision verbs replacing faire, dire, mettre
- Day 15Translation — Paronyms and false friends
- Day 16Dictation — Advanced agreement: verbes pronominaux, laissé/fait + infinitive
- Day 17Instructions and manuals — Advanced uses of the infinitive
- Day 18Slogans and headlines — Ellipsis and elliptical style
- Day 19The philosophical essay — Cohesion: anaphora and reference
- Day 20Analysing a poem — The commentary (commentaire composé)
- Day 21Bioethics — Debate and refutation
- Day 22International business — Negotiation language
- Day 23Dealing with bureaucracy — Formal correspondence: administrative style
- Day 24Schools of thought — Abstract vocabulary of ideas
- Day 25Globalisation — Economic vocabulary and structures
- Day 26Fundamental rights — Legal vocabulary and structures
- Day 27Artificial intelligence — Scientific discourse
- Day 28Museums and heritage — Art criticism vocabulary
- Day 29Famous speeches — Political rhetoric
- Day 30Spontaneous conversation — Oral fluency: fillers, discourse markers, reformulation
- Day 31Psychology — Nuanced emotions and attitudes
- Day 32Utopias and dystopias — Expressing the unreal and counterfactual
- Day 33Eloquence — Advanced word order and rhythm
- Day 34French versus English — Neologisms and anglicisms
- Day 35Public policy — Synthesis of complex documents
- Day 36The work of tomorrow — Writing a reasoned essay (essai argumenté)
- Day 37From Latin to French — History of the French language
- Day 38The French press — French society through its media
- Day 39The Académie française — Spelling reform and orthographic subtleties
- Day 40Speaking in public — C1 review: mastering register and argument