French language - Video lessons for beginners

On this page you will find links to online French video lessons with basic French phrases. Most of the video lessons listed below are perfect for beginners.

Usually there is either French transcript of the dialogues or French subtitles. French video lessons with transcript will help you learn most commonly used French words and French phrases and will improve your listening comprehension skills in French. On some of the sites you will find links to download video to your computer.

The full description and user reviews of some courses from the list below can be found on the page with all French video courses.

The difficulty level is indicated by color circles:

  • for beginner/elementary level,
  • for intermediate level – ,
  • for advanced learners – .

French dialects are indicated by a corresponding little flag:

  • – for Metropolitan French,
  • – for Quebec French.

If you want to suggest an online resource for learning French, see the instructions here.