Comprehensive French communication skills across reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Covers everything from daily greetings to literary expression and professional communication.
French is an official language in 29 countries. It spans from basic greetings to everyday conversation, workplace communication, academic discussion, and literary expression. Beyond grammar and vocabulary, it requires context-appropriate expression, understanding Francophone cultural diversity, and situational communication. Levels are set by cross-validating CEFR and DELF/DALF.
You can read and write the 26 letters of the French alphabet along with accent marks (e.g., e with acute, e with grave, c with cedilla). You recognize numbers and basic words. You can use everyday greetings like "Bonjour" and "Merci," and introduce yourself with your name and nationality. You can catch some words when someone speaks very slowly and clearly. (CEFR Pre-A1 to A1, DELF A1 level)
What Comes Next
If you've achieved most items in this checklist, you're ready to enter the DELF A2 stage, where you'll start forming basic sentences and handling everyday survival situations. As the CEFR Companion Volume suggests, this transition begins with repeatedly using basic vocabulary and sentence structures in familiar daily contexts. According to Krashen(1982)'s input hypothesis, consistent exposure to French audio and text slightly above your current level accelerates this transition.
A 6-level (A1-C2) competency framework providing can-do descriptors across 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening), serving as the core basis for Level Guide boundary design.
A 6-tier official certification system — DELF (A1-B2) and DALF (C1-C2) — providing a French-specific qualification framework aligned with CEFR, supporting level boundary and checklist evidence.
A 5-level proficiency scale (Novice to Distinguished) that serves as an authoritative benchmark in U.S. foreign language education, providing a complementary basis to CEFR for level design.
The 2020 CEFR extension that adds new descriptors for mediation, online interaction, and plurilingual competence while refining can-do statements at each level, providing scholarly evidence for checklist item design.
제2언어 습득의 입력 가설과 자연 순서 가설로, 프랑스어 학습에서 CEFR 단계별 이해 가능한 입력의 점진적 확장이 숙련도 전환의 이론적 근거
