Description
French 3 Course Overview
This class is approved by the NCAA.
This class is part of the MyFunScience live online homeschool classes, which provide structured instruction for middle school and high school students. Families can explore all of our foreign language courses for homeschool students.
This live online French 3 class continues the strong Comprehensible Input foundation established in French 1 and French 2. Students expand fluency, deepen comprehension, and begin working with more advanced structures while maintaining a meaning-first approach.
After more than 20 years of teaching foreign languages, this course blends proven classroom experience with the Comprehensible Input (TPRS) approach to language learning. Instead of focusing primarily on memorizing grammar rules and vocabulary lists, students learn through engaging stories, conversation, and reading they can easily understand. This approach helps students naturally build comprehension, confidence, and the ability to communicate in the language.
This method equips every learner — from gifted students to those with dyslexia — for success.
In French 3, grammar grows deeper and more precise. Students work confidently with present, multiple past tenses, future, conditional, imperative, and increasingly sophisticated subjunctive structures — always grounded in comprehension before analysis.
Course Overview
- High School Credit: 1 credit
- Recommended Grade Level: Grades 9–12
- Format: Weekly live online French class
- Prerequisite: Completion of French 2 or equivalent
What Class Looks Like
What Your Student Will Learn in French 3
Parents often ask how French 3 moves students from intermediate ability toward advanced proficiency. The document below provides an overview of learning goals, language growth, and the continued Comprehensible Input approach used in this class.
Download the French 3 Learning Summary (PDF)
Course Structure & Expectations
Students should plan on 30–40 minutes of work each day, four days per week, in addition to the live class session.
Students work with advanced materials and read one to three novels entirely in French, increasing in complexity and depth. Additional listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities strengthen overall fluency.
Scripture memory, praise songs, hymns, contemporary music, cultural studies, and food and traditions continue to enrich the class. In French 3, Bible reading is often introduced during the second semester for students ready for that level of engagement.
Parents: Please contact the instructor if your student has dyslexia or other learning differences.
Benefits of Learning French
Language study strengthens academic skills, cognitive flexibility, and cultural awareness. Through language, students build relationships and gain the ability to communicate across cultures.
What Families Are Saying
I just took the university placement test and tested out of their college requirement! I’m planning on continuing and studying abroad in a country that speaks the language.
You provide AWESOME foreign language options for our girls. We feel very fortunate and blessed by your classes.
Required Materials
Novels for the upcoming school year will be posted by July 31st. Specific curriculum updates will be shared with enrolled families during the summer.
Prerequisites
- French 2 or equivalent
- If entering from another curriculum, please contact the instructor for a brief placement assessment
- French 3 Placement Test [PDF]
Société Honoraire de Français
High-achieving students may be eligible for induction into the Société Honoraire de Français, the national French Honor Society. We are one of the few homeschool-based chapters in the country offering this recognition.
Complete French Program
This class is part of the MyFunScience French program, a sequence of live online homeschool classes designed to help students develop strong French language skills over multiple levels.
Students can progress through the full sequence while strengthening vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and conversational ability.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a live online French class?
Yes. Students attend a weekly live online class where the instructor leads discussions, storytelling activities, and advanced language practice.
Is this class designed for homeschool students?
Yes. This course is specifically designed for homeschool high school students.
Does French 3 earn high school credit?
Yes. French 3 earns one full high school foreign language credit.
What comes after French 3?
Students typically continue with French 4 to complete a four-year high school French program.
