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French


Adult Enrichment / Languages -
Spring 2025

Lay the foundation to become a confident French speaker. Learn pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and verbs with a focus on describing the world around you.

Level 1 (Abadía): Learn basic vocabulary, present-tense verbs, and useful everyday words and phrases. Part of each class will be spent practicing oral dialogue to gain comfort in speaking.

Level 2 (Abadía): Focus on improving conversational precision by developing vocabulary and learning present and immediate future tenses. Practice oral dialogue and learn common and irregular verbs, possessive and demonstrative adjectives, comparatives and superlatives, and imperatives.

Level 3 (Bridgelal): Upon completion of this course, you can expect to converse on a broad range of topics with greater confidence and precision. Building upon the skills already acquired, you will learn direct and indirect object pronouns and start the imperfect verb tense. This class will cover leçons 14–19 in the Contacts edition 8 or 9 textbook, easily found used or downloadable online.

Level 4 (Bridgelal): Focus on using passé composé versus the imperfect tense and implementing object pronouns and adverbs in both simple and compound tenses. We will also further develop the three basic skills of listening, speaking, and reading while learning about French culture and history. You will need a free downloadable copy of the Grammaire Progressive du Francais Intermediaire (edition 3 by Maia Gregory).ou will need a free downloadable copy of the Grammaire Progressive du Francais Intermediaire (edition 3 by Maia Gregory). If you miss a class, you may view the recording.

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Instructor

Michelle Abadia


Michelle Nicole Abadia was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and possesses native fluency in Spanish, English, and French. In addition to her love of learning about other cultures and new languages, Michelle is also passionate about music performance. She was born with congenital cataracts and lost her sight completely by age five. Today she divides her time between sharing her passion for music through her performances, and her enthusiasm for foreign languages through her teaching. 

Barry Bridgelal


Barry Bridgelal has studied more than ten languages and holds degrees in international relations and French literature. Barry has taught French, Italian and Latin in many language schools.

LA-French Level 1

  Michelle Abadia


Gibbs School
Tuesdays, Apr 8 - Jun 10
6:00 - 7:15 PM

  No Class Apr 22


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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 179 00
LA-French Level 2

  Michelle Abadia


Gibbs School
Tuesdays, Apr 8 - Jun 10
7:30 - 8:45 PM

  No Class Apr 22


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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 179 00
LA-French Level 3

  Barry Bridgelal


Online
Thursdays, Apr 3 - Jun 12
4:00 - 5:00 PM

  No Class Apr 24


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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 199 00
LA-French Level 4

  Barry Bridgelal


Online
Wednesdays, Apr 16 - Jun 11
5:00 - 6:00 PM

  No Class Apr 23


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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 159 00