Conversational French - Newark Buttermarket - Adult Learning

Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre

Date	24 April - 3 July 2026
Sessions	Fridays: 10am - 12pm
No. sessions	10
Venue	Newark Buttermarket, Exchange Shopping Centre View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £80

About this course

If you can already talk about yourself, your family, your interests and your pets in French, and you would like to start talking about more varied topics, this is the French course for you. You will be exposed to spoken French through videos and discussions, and, more importantly, you will have plenty of opportunities to speak and develop your confidence. This is a relaxed class where you will meet other learners interested in travelling and francophone culture.

On the course, we will cover a different topic each week. These will be food, cinema, sports, arts, and more. Each session will give the learners the opportunity to learn about some aspect of French culture and to share their own ideas and experiences, all in French. This is a course focused on speaking and listening.

What will you achieve by the end of the course? -

Converse in French about a range of topics
Give your opinion on different subjects
Show you understand others when others speak French by responding accurately
Display your knowledge of Francophone culture through conversations
Speak in front of a group

Please bring to the course with you:-

Books with basic French vocabulary are useful, such as the GCSE French Vocab and the GCSE French Grammar Books by CGP.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.