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3 Minute French - Course 4 | Language lessons for beginners (Udemy.com)

Build on from the knowledge you learnt in Courses 1, 2 and 3, and learn how to communicate in even more situations.

Created by: Kieran Ball

Last updated September 2026

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What you will learn

  • Learn some more useful question phrases you can use in lots of situations.
  • Learn some more verbs and start to add different structures to your language.
  • Learn a technique called "Building Motors" to help speed you along to fluency
  • Learn more in-depth ways to greet people and talk about how you're feeling
  • Learn some new adjectives, adverbs and adverbial phrases
  • Learn about French honorifics and how to introduce yourself
  • Learn how to confirm and change reservations
  • Get to know the first "Structure" in French
  • Learn a few phrases to help you describe things in the past
  • Learn how to talk about illnesses in French

How it compares

Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.8 out of 5higher than 82% of them
  • Reviews1,045#175 of 536 by number of reviews
  • Length6 hourslonger than 54% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2026more recently than 93% of them

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Course Description

Welcome to course 4 :-)

3 Minute French - Course 4 leads on from courses 1, 2 and 3. The first three courses were all about building a good base vocabulary of comment words, phrases and simple structures. Course 4 builds on everything you've learnt so far, but it begins to venture out into more conversational language, and you'll also learn some very useful Learning Techniques.

The same "3 Minute Languages" method is used throughout, so you can complete the lessons in short bursts, and you'll get the familiar practice sections at the end of each lesson. We start this course by reviewing all the words and phrases we've learnt so far, to ensure you're ready to jump into course 4.

At the start of this course, we'll delve into looking at how to form questions to ask people how they are. This will also lead us onto the first "Learning technique", which is Installing a motor. This technique will help to boose your confidence in speaking to people when you're in a French-speaking country.

Just like in the other courses, you'll be learning lots of vocabulary that you can add to your ever-growing wealth of linguistic knowledge, and you'll be given plenty of opportunities to put it all into practice. You'll learn some very useful adjectives and you'll also get some more Vocabulary Expansion Sheets full of words and phrases for talking about parts of the body and medicine.

Keeping on the theme of asking questions, we'll learn some new question words and some useful phrases to keep in our arsenal that will speed up how we speak. This will lead onto an extremely useful section called Building Structures. We'll be looking at how the entire French language is formed from a certain number of structures, and how these structures can be broken down easily into slots. All we have to do is put words into each slot, and you have yourself a sentence!

So, that's just a few of the things we'll be learning in this course, but here are just a few more things to whet your appetite:

  • Talking about the past

  • Different ways to ask how somebody is

  • How to address people and introduce yourself in French

  • Using the object pronoun "le", meaning "it"

  • Looking at the difference between "encore" and "un autre"

  • and much more...

Alors, commençons - So, let's begin!

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Instructor Details

Kieran Ball

Hello, bonjour, hola, hallo, ciao and olá! 

I’m Kieran and I’m a language tutor based in the UK, and I also create online courses and write books to make language learning accessible to all.

My books and online courses are based on the method I developed for teaching languages, which I've been using in all my classes for many  years. The method will get you speaking quickly, without the  struggle normally associated with language learning.

I have created three series of language courses available in French,  Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese. They're called: '3 Minute  Languages', 'Building Structures' and 'Quick Guides'.


I hope you enjoy, and "Happy Learning" :-)

Kieran

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Reviews

4.8

1,045 ratings on Udemy

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By Mirza Kashif Baig on 5/4/2024

I left this series of courses by Kieran went to other highly rated courses on Udemy, and came back again to this series after a week and realized that it offers the best material for learning French at the moment. I intend to complete all 14 chapters in this series. What I appreciate most is the abundance of speaking practice included in this course, which surpasses others on Udemy

By Anonymized User on 6/6/2022

I have come this far and it's only because the teacher delivers real well! I tend to learn half or whole lesson at one go daily but it's easily retainable. With the exception of a few typo errors here and there, this course is great for avid learners. Give it a go!

By Samet Küçük on 5/4/2021

Sometimes he uses different slides from different lessons. Sometimes he says things like lets recap our Italian. Sometimes he says something but a different meaning thing shows on the screen. Because of the sloppiness, he gets 4 stars.

By Brett Gamble on 3/25/2021

I love these courses. I try to spend 15 minutes a day reviewing and learning new material. It takes some dedication, but I am learning French, and wanting to get to the point where I can listen to radio, music and read books.

By Loraine Cochrane on 1/5/2021

I think this course is great, I have learnt more on this course that in any other online course I have tried. The results are above expectation and can only say that it is money well spent!

By Sujit Sen on 11/15/2020

good

By Shahrukh Azim Butt on 11/8/2020

Course 4 done, and finally onto Course 5. Not sure how well building structure course will help but will complete these courses first! Allez vous

By Erlinda Signo - Warren on 11/1/2020

Very good instructor. I am now learning the sentence construction.
I will continue on learning. Thank you.

By Pamela Dawn Herrera on 10/24/2020

I love the way Kieran makes it easy for me to remember previous lessons.

By Pragya Jain on 10/13/2020

So far so good.

By Lorie Haley on 10/4/2020

Good instructor; enjoyable training.

By Surbhi Bhaskar on 9/22/2020

amazing course

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Overall Score : 96 / 100