Second Language Evaluation · Government of Canada

Thirty minutes a day.
Six months.Niveau C.

A structured French course for the public service, written fresh every morning around real Canadian news and narrated for your drive to work. Not tourist French — the register the SLE actually tests: briefings, memos, committee meetings, and defending a position when someone pushes back.

Start with a placement testTakes about 35 minutes. Sets your day one.

A lesson, end to end

Ce que vous entendez chaque matin.

  • 0:00AccueilWhere you are, and what today covers
  • 1:30RappelSpaced repetition of everything now due
  • 6:00VocabulaireEight words, in the register the test uses
  • 14:00GrammaireOne point, explained then drilled
  • 17:00ActualitésTwo real stories, narrated in French
  • 27:00RécapitulationRecall quiz, and a prompt to say out loud

Where you need to land

The SLE reports three separate levels. Palier tracks each against your target and tells you which one is furthest behind.

ReadingB/ C

Reading: level B, target level C — not yet met

WritingB/ B

Writing: level B, target level B — met

OralB/ C

Oral: level B, target level C — not yet met

Gold marks the target. Illustrative figures.

Compréhension

Reading & listening

Every lesson is built on French-Canadian news from that morning, narrated at natural speed. You learn words inside the sentences they actually live in.

Mémoire

Spaced repetition

Nothing is taught once. An FSRS scheduler decides what resurfaces and when, so today's eight words come back exactly as you're about to lose them.

Expression orale

Speaking

Talk to an examiner that never gets tired. Sessions are scored on the same five criteria a real assessor uses, so you know which one is holding your level down.