One complete system to get you from zero French to CLB 7 on the TCF Canada — lessons, daily practice, mock tests, and smart AI feedback on your writing and speaking.
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Day one is the sounds of French, before a word of grammar. Weeks later, you’re running the whole exam — reading, listening, speaking, writing — every day.
Day 1 · Phase 0
Most English speakers can’t hear the difference, let alone make it. Today’s session spends 18 minutes on exactly this — minimal pairs, mouth shape, four hundred reps.
Day one. Before any grammar. Before any article.
Day 25 · Phase 2 — the routine
Vous êtes à mi-chemin, Priya.
What today looks like — once Phase 1 ends and the routine opens.
01 · Set up
Your test date, and the minutes you can give each day. One screen. If your date is tight, we’ll show you three honest ways to make it fit.
~ 90 sec
02 · Each day
Every day, your session is waiting — a short read, a sound to drill, a handful of words. All of it scoped to exactly where you are today.
~ 28 min
03 · Close the day
Six small segments: reading, listening, speaking, writing, review, and vocabulary. Finish them and the day is done — measurably closer than yesterday.
Every day
The vocabulary you meet doesn’t vanish into a list. Each word becomes a card that resurfaces on a schedule tuned to your memory — the same engine behind segment V of every daily session.
Three places the real TCF Canada catches people out — and where lighter prep quietly teaches the easy version. French TCF is built from the published TCF Canada format, so you practise the test that exists, in the exact shape it exists.
Écouterlistening
Predictable, replayable→Plays once, climbs
The audio plays once — no replay — and the questions climb in difficulty as you go. The daily listening here works the same way, so test day holds no surprises.
Écrirewriting
Flawless spelling→A clear message
The rubric rewards a clear, coherent message over perfect spelling. Your three daily sentences are graded the same way — say the thing, simply.
Parlerspeaking
Rehearsed answers→Live follow-ups
There’s no reciting a prepared answer — the examiner interrupts and pushes back. One minute of free speaking, every day, makes the unscripted reply a habit.
A drill can only tell you whether you tapped the right answer. The exam can’t work that way — it reads what you actually wrote and judges it. So this does too: you write or speak freely, and it comes back marked against the TCF rubric.
No multiple-choice guess at your level. An examiner-grade model reads the sentences you actually wrote, weighs them against the TCF rubric, and hands back one honest CLB band — the scale the real test uses.
Each slip is marked where it happens — the wrong form struck through, the fix beside it, one line on why. Then the two or three things that actually move your band, not a vague “try harder.”
The most useful thing on the page: your answer lifted to CLB 5 and CLB 7 — same meaning, exam-level French. You see the exact gap between where you are and the score you need, in your sentences.
Writing and speaking, graded the way an examiner reads them — every day, from the first week you can form a sentence.
Phase 0
0
7–10 days
Les sons
The seven sounds you can’t make yet — /y/, /u/, the nasals, /R/, é vs è, eu vs œ, e-muet.
Phase 1
1
18–26 days
Les fondations
Articles, gender, suffix rules, present tense, negation, partitives, the BANGS adjectives.
Phase 2
2
60–95 days
La routine
The daily session begins. Reading, listening, speaking, writing — every day, scoped to your CLB.
Phase 3
3
25–35 days
Les essais
Full mocks in the real exam format — single-pass climbing audio, the clarity-first writing rubric, and spontaneous oral follow-ups.
Phase 4
4
10–14 days
Le polissage
Polish and taper. Sleep more, drill less. Walk into the test rested.
The range is the honesty: at three focused hours a day the plan runs about 120 days; at two, closer to 180. Yours is sized to your test date and your daily minutes on day one — and if the two don’t fit, we say so on day one, not three months in.
CLB 7 on the TCF Canada, starting from zero French. Done honestly, that’s 120 to 180 days at two to three focused hours a day — anyone promising it faster is selling you something. So the only question that matters:
Will you be ready by your date?
Pick your date to see your path.
We map the five-phase plan onto the days you’ve actually got.
Clear it at CLB 7 and French can add up to 50 points to your Express Entry profile — and French-category draws have been inviting people 100+ points below the general cut-off. Ottawa is now reviewing that advantage, so the window may be narrowing — but the score is the work, and it’s exactly what this is built to get you.
Not sure what CLB your TCF score is? See the official conversion table →
It’s the assumption the whole thing is built on. The first phase spends a week on the sounds of French before a single word of grammar. No prior French needed.
We check on day one, against honest numbers: from zero, CLB 7 takes 120–180 days at two to three focused hours a day. If your date doesn’t fit, we’ll show you exactly what would — more daily hours, a later date, or a strong first band now and the rest right after. You’ll never be left guessing whether you’re on pace.
Yes. Every part is built from the current published TCF Canada format — audio that plays once and climbs in difficulty, a writing rubric that rewards a clear message, and a speaking task where the examiner follows up live. The real exam, not the stripped-down version some courses still drill.
Never. A one-time sign-in link arrives within a minute. Tap it on any device and you’re in.
Start today and your first session is waiting in two minutes — scoped to exactly where your French is right now.
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