What you’ll be able to do
Level 2 adds the tenses and pronouns you need to talk about more of your life.
Talk across past, present and future
Move between what you did, what you’re doing and what you’re going to do.
Use the perfect and the imperfect
Learn the two main past tenses and when to use each one.
Handle the tricky pronouns
Get to grips with y and en, and know when to use qui or que.
Get things done in French
Take a taxi, hire a car and make a phone call in French.
The people in the lessons
Mark and Anna carry on where Level 1 left off. Mark explains, and Anna takes on the role of the learner, asking the questions and having a go, so you pick it up along with her.
If you’re coming back to French after a long gap, you may remember more than you think, and this level helps you build on it.
Inside every lesson
All 40 lessons follow the same shape, so you always know what to do next.
What’s included
Pay once and it’s yours for life, on every device you use.
- 40 full lessons Over 20 hours of audio.
- Video lessons With the French on screen.
- Comprehensive lesson notes Grammar, vocabulary and transcripts.
- A quiz every ten lessons Check your progress as you go.
- Downloads Take the audio and notes offline.
- Lifetime access One payment, no subscription.
Video
The video lesson
Mark and Anna work through the lesson, with the French on screen as you go.
Audio
The audio lesson
Download the same lesson to review on the move.
Notes
Lesson notes
Read the grammar explanations, vocabulary and transcript in full.
Bonus
Bonus audio
Test your understanding with review, translation challenges and extra vocabulary.
The 40 lessons
The lessons start with the present tense and move on to the past and the future, with a quiz after every ten.
Part 1 · Lessons 1 to 10
The present tense
Use regular and reflexive verbs to talk about your daily routine, make arrangements, ask questions and describe things.
- 1The present tense
- 2Daily routine
- 3Reflexive verbs in the present tense
- 4Using the present tense to make arrangements
- 5Saying what you are going to do
- 6Asking questions, and avoir and être
- 7A review of regular and irregular verbs
- 8Adjectives: colours and nationalities
- 9Adjectives which come before a noun
- 10End-of-unit review
Part 2 · Lessons 11 to 20
Talking about the past
Say what you’re going to do, then talk about the past with the perfect tense, using avoir and être, and learn to say “this” and “that”.
- 11Talking about going to do something
- 12The negative of the immediate future
- 13The perfect tense
- 14The perfect tense continued
- 15The perfect tense with irregular verbs
- 16Verbs which take être in the perfect tense
- 17More verbs which take être
- 18Reflexive verbs in the perfect tense
- 19“This”, “that”, “these” and “those”
- 20Review of the perfect tense
Part 3 · Lessons 21 to 31
More tenses, and getting around
Learn the pronouns y and en, the imperfect, and qui and que, then take a taxi, hire a car, make phone calls and use modal verbs.
- 21The pronouns y and en
- 22Introducing the imperfect tense
- 23More on the imperfect tense
- 24Uses of the imperfect tense
- 25Relative pronouns: qui and que
- 26Avant de and venir de
- 27After having done something
- 28Getting a taxi
- 29Hiring a car
- 30Making a phone call in French
- 31Modal verbs
Part 4 · Lessons 32 to 40
Bringing it together
Review the grammar so far, and meet the conditional, the future and the pluperfect along the way.
- 32Grammar review
- 33Grammar review: “Do you fancy eating with us?”
- 34Grammar review: “We’re going to make some progress”
- 35Grammar review: “We trust you!”
- 36The conditional: “Shall we use the tu form?”
- 37The future tense: “They’re up to something!”
- 38The pluperfect tense: “I had never tasted it”
- 39Grammar review: “We’re not going to argue again”
- 40Grammar review: “A very pleasant evening”
From learners on the course
“Thank you. The course has been unbelievable helpful. I really liked you putting French into context and then explaining it to us. It was about the right amount of French before my mind started to wander! So now season 3. The quiz at the end was useful too because I could go back over the bits I didn’t quite understand. Once again thanks”
“I really appreciate how Mark and Coffee Break French show great enthusiasm in the language itself. The way how “aller” and its irregularity in conjugation was explained, not just crammed to us, was wonderful. The mention of the linguistic root was very interesting. It certainly makes learning irregular verbs easier with a little understanding of how they came about. The way how Mark deconstructed the interrogative sentences was also very clear and helpful for me to use “est-ce que” and construct sentences naturally. Most other learning platforms or institutions I have tried just asked students to repeat and memorise, which was not helpful at all. Thank you Mark and Coffee Break French!”
“C'est la deuxième fois que je participe à ce cours. Je suis un apprenant intermédiaire de niveau B1 et j'ai trouvé la vidéo de fin de cours très utile pour mon niveau d'apprentissage. Merci encore pour l'excellent cours.”
Questions
What’s the difference between the course and the free podcast?
The free podcast is the audio of each lesson. The course adds the video lessons, comprehensive lesson notes, quizzes and bonus audio, all without ads.
Is Level 2 right for me?
It’s for anyone who has finished Level 1, or who learned some French before and wants to bring it back. If the first few lessons of the free Level 2 podcast feel comfortable, you’re in the right place.
Can I download the materials?
The videos stream online, and the lesson notes and audio download to your device.
How long do I have access?
For life. Pay once and it’s yours, across all of your devices.
When does it start and finish?
It starts the moment you join and has no end date. It’s self-paced, so you set the timeline.
Can I try it before I buy?
Yes. You can listen to the lessons free on the podcast. The course adds all the support that goes with them: a video of every lesson, full lesson notes and transcripts, quizzes and bonus review material.
Find the course that fits you
Coffee Break French has five levels, from absolute beginner to advanced. If this one doesn’t feel right, try the level above or below.
The Level 1 course40 lessons for absolute beginners, with video lessons, notes and exercises
The Level 3 courseFollow a 40-lesson story set in Nice and broaden what you can understand and say
The Level 4 courseFollow a story set in Paris through 40 lessons of more advanced French
La Vérité éclate toujoursChallenge yourself with a crime novel for advanced learners, with all the support you need
Coffee Break French · Level 2
Take your French further
All 40 lessons come with video, audio and full notes, so you can work through them at your own pace.
$269One payment, yours for life
Not ready to buy yet?
Get free lessons, tips and news from the French team by email.
Free French lessons by email