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A 120-day push from zero to TCF Canada — target CLB 7, floor CLB 5. Notebooks grouped below, or jump straight to the daily drill.
Plan
The arc of the sprint.Daily
Open this every morning.Toolkit
Reusable language building blocks.Sentence frames and reusable structures for speaking & writing.
Themed vocabulary lists organised for spaced recall.
Logical connectors that unlock fluent, examiner-friendly answers.
Common TCF trap patterns and how to defuse them.
Sounds
Phonology drills and shibboleths.The 7-day plan that sequences every drill below. Start here.
Taming the back-of-throat French R — the single hardest consonant.
The four nasals — on, an, in, un — and how to tell them apart.
The tu/tout shibboleth — building the front-rounded vowel.
/ø/ and /œ/ — the front-rounded mid vowels, by open vs closed syllable.
/e/ vs /ɛ/ — the past-vs-imperfect tell, and the e spelling map.
How French glues words together — obligatory, optional, forbidden.
Final consonants, silent e, and the schwa-drop that powers casual speech.
The silent letter with two personalities — l'homme vs le héros.