English → French. Nothing else.

Allez.

/a.le/ · "ah-LAY" — it means go. And voilà: you just learned your first French word.

A structured path from zero to C1 French, built exclusively for the English-speaking brain — the false friends, the gendered nouns, the subjunctive wall. We know where you'll struggle, because that's all we teach.

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The Fontaine Method

Twelve levels. Four phases. One word: allez.

Every level maps to the CEFR — the international standard for language proficiency — and to a real 24-month curriculum. You always know exactly where you stand, and exactly what fluency milestone comes next. No infinite treadmill of disconnected exercises.

A1 · Levels 1–3

Foundation

Survival French. Sounds, greetings, être & avoir, your first 300 words — and the faux amis that trap every English speaker.

A2–B1 · Levels 4–6

Builder

Past and future tenses, real transactions, real questions. 1,200 words and your first cultural deep dives.

B1–B2 · Levels 7–9

Expansion

The subjunctive, conditional, idiom. You start consuming authentic French media — films, songs, podcasts.

B2–C1 · Levels 10–12

Mastery

Argumentation, formal register, regional accents. DELF/DALF certification prep. Fluency, on paper and out loud.

Built for the English-speaking brain

Meet the faux amis. Tap one.

French is full of words that look like English and mean something entirely different. Generic apps ignore them. We hunt them down from day one.

librairie
looks like… library?
bookshop!A library is une bibliothèque.
attendre
looks like… attend?
to wait!To attend is assister à.
blessé
looks like… blessed?
injured!Quite the opposite of a blessing.
What's inside

Read it. Write it. Hear it. Say it.

Où?

Free placement test

Ten minutes, adaptive, honest. We place you at exactly the right level — whether that's your very first bonjour or halfway to fluency.

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The Pronunciation Lab

Hear every phrase in an authentic French voice, record yourself, compare side by side, and get scored. Speaking is built in from lesson one — not bolted on at the end.

Badges that mean something

XP, streaks, and badge families — La Flamme, Le Perroquet, the Faux Amis Slayer. Every badge marks a real milestone on a real curriculum.

Spaced repetition, automated

Every word you miss returns at scientifically-timed intervals until it's yours. Your review deck rebuilds itself every night.

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Culture as the engine

Food, film, humor, history. You don't learn French and then learn France — the culture is how the language sticks.

C1

A real destination

The path ends at C1 proficiency with DELF/DALF certification prep — the credential recognized by French universities and employers.

Pricing

Less than a single café crème a month.

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