French C2 · Mastery
Near-native French: style and register, idioms, academic and literary language, regional variation and fine shades of meaning.
35 topics · Vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and practice.
What you will study
- Day 1Literary pastiche — Passé simple and imperfect subjunctive in active use
- Day 2Classical prose — Stylistic inversion and archaic constructions
- Day 3The art of digression — Advanced syntax: incises and parentheticals
- Day 4The polyphonic novel — Polyphony and enunciation
- Day 5Scientific uncertainty — Subtle modality: pouvoir, devoir, sembler, paraître
- Day 6Constitutional law — Rare connectors: nonobstant, eu égard à, à l'aune de
- Day 7Great orators — Rhetorical figures: chiasmus, antithesis, oxymoron
- Day 8Flaubert and realism — Style indirect libre in literary analysis
- Day 9Descartes, Pascal, Sartre — Philosophical discourse
- Day 10Freedom — Advanced academic writing: dissertation
- Day 11Baudelaire — Literary commentary at expert level
- Day 12Translating the untranslatable — Translation techniques: transposition, modulation
- Day 13Medical ethics — Specialised vocabulary: medicine
- Day 14Financial markets — Specialised vocabulary: finance
- Day 15French diplomacy — Specialised vocabulary: diplomacy
- Day 16French of the suburbs — Argot, slang and generational language
- Day 17Puns — Humour, puns and wordplay
- Day 18Cultural references — Allusion and intertextuality
- Day 19One story in three registers — Register mastery: switching on demand
- Day 20Auteur cinema — Critical review writing
- Day 21Propaganda — Advanced persuasion and manipulation in discourse
- Day 22Major social debates — Oral expertise: debate and moderation
- Day 23Nuances of the language — Lexical precision: near-synonyms
- Day 24Travelling words — Etymology and word families
- Day 25Senghor, Césaire, Kundera — Francophone literatures
- Day 26Impressionism — Art history discourse
- Day 27Bourdieu and social class — Economics and sociology essays
- Day 28The Anthropocene — Ecological thought and discourse
- Day 29Writing an op-ed — Writing for publication: tribune and editorial
- Day 30Telling an anecdote — Spoken expertise: storytelling and anecdote
- Day 31The alexandrine — Poetic language and versification
- Day 32Molière and Racine — Theatre language
- Day 33Fake news — Media analysis and discourse critique
- Day 34Drafting a contract — Precision in legal drafting
- Day 35French, a language of ideas — C2 review: near-native mastery