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French for Nurses: Language Training for Professional Nursing Practice in France

What you will learn

  • Prepare for language requirements linked to nursing recognition with the Ordre National des Infirmiers and employment in French healthcare institutions, including preparation for the DELF B1 or B2 language certificate.
  • Become familiar with the organisation of the French healthcare system and professional communication standards.
  • Achieve CEFR B1 or B2 level in French, with a focus on medical vocabulary and everyday nursing situations.

Who is this course for?

  • Nurses trained outside France who want to work in French hospitals, clinics, or care facilities.
  • Nurses applying for professional registration with the Ordre National des Infirmiers.
  • EU healthcare professionals who need to provide official proof of French language competence.
  • Healthcare professionals with A2-level French aiming to reach CEFR B1 or B2, the levels commonly requested by employers and authorities (when starting from A1, the course includes a full A1 foundation programme).
  • Nurses who want to improve professional speaking, listening, and writing in French healthcare contexts.
  • Healthcare institutions supporting international nursing staff in meeting French language requirements.

This course in short

  • You develop the French language skills required for nursing practice and professional recognition in France.
  • You train for official French language certification (DELF B1–B2) and real workplace communication.
  • Learning combines a structured online learning platform with individual conversation classes led by a private teacher.
  • Course content is based on authentic French healthcare situations, adapted to your CEFR level.
  • A practical and flexible course designed for exam preparation, professional integration, and safe nursing practice.

Pricing

1 Learning goals
2 Select your course plan
3 Start your course

Study independently with full access to the learning portal.

Access Per month Total Discount
1 month €14.99 €14.99 —
3 months €8.00 €24.00 -47%
6 months €5.75 €34.50 -62%
12 months €3.79 €45.48 -75%

Writing feedback on your assignments.

Structured lessons with native audio and video.

Parallel audio to practise listening and pronunciation.

See what to review next based on your mistakes.
1 Get to know your teacher
2 Discuss your schedule
3 Start your lessons

You study in the portal at your own pace. Your teacher gives weekly guidance, answers questions, and practises conversation with you.

We recommend 12 hours of live classes per level, with 3 months of self-study.

Choose a package type: 12 hours if you mainly self-study, 24 hours if you want more motivation and less daily self-study, or 48 hours if you prefer learning mainly with your teacher.

Buy only the class hours you need—credits stay valid for one year. Each conversation class includes a self-study license for the learning portal.

Includes all from self-study

  • Full self-study access to the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio, video and personalized report
  • Weekly conversation practice with a professional teacher
  • Study online as much as you want between classes

Blended learning packages

One level takes about 3 months of self-study. Compare package types for live class hours and estimated daily self-study.

Package type Live classes Estimated self-study Price
Regular

One conversation class per week. A good balance if you like steady self-study with weekly speaking practice.

 12 x 60 minutes 30 minutes/day ± €264
Conversation

Two conversation classes per week. Choose this when you want more live guidance and less daily self-study.

 24 x 60 minutes 15 minutes/day ± €528
Intensive

Four conversation classes per week. For learners who prefer to study mainly with a teacher.

 48 x 60 minutes Optional ± €1,056

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Estimated course price based on 1 class per week over 12 weeks. You can buy more or fewer hours anytime.

Natalia L.

Natalia L.

Master in French Didactics

  • 5/5

± €252

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Elodie O.

Elodie O.

DAEFLE

  • 4.89/5

± €276

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Ivan E.

Ivan E.

Bachelor

  • 5/5

± €300

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Nancy C.

Nancy C.

Proficiency English Certificate

  • 4.93/5

± €300

1 class/week · 12 weeks

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Credits valid for 1 year
Flexible scheduling
24-hour cancellation policy

Learning method

Video and audio lessons shown on desktop
1

Practice all skills

Learn with audio, video and AI corrections to practice speaking, reading, listening and writing.

Speaking Reading Listening Writing
2

Audio training

Listen at normal or slow speed, with or without translations.

Ebook and PDF worksheets
3

Offline ebook

Download lessons as ebook and PDF for offline study.

Ebook & PDF

Course book

  • Ebook included for free
  • Printed book available in bookshops
  • Available in multiple languages, with course license
  • Ideal to support multilingual classrooms

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Curriculum

Profession-specific modules to combine with any level course (A1–B2).

Learning objectives

  • Describe your education level
  • Describe your workplace and the services you offer
  • Explaining medical equipment and finding your way around a hospital
  • Vocabulary: departments, hospital rooms and furniture, equipment, workwear and footwear

Learning objectives

  • Describe your everyday tasks, responsibilities and schedule
  • Explain teamwork and shift work
  • Describe hospital organisation and scheduling
  • Vocabulary: Shift planning and rota scheduling

Learning objectives

  • Observe changes in state and behaviour
  • Measure and record vital signs accurately
  • Report any unusual observations to your supervisor.
  • Vocabulary: observation terminology (colour, consistency, temperature, quantity), vital signs, record-keeping terms, breathing, pulse, level of consciousness

Learning objectives

  • Read and write short care reports
  • Ask about the patient’s condition
  • Use clear, factual language in your reports
  • Vocabulary: reporting structures, administrative vocabulary, report-writing language, terminology for a patient’s condition

Learning objectives

  • Take part in multidisciplinary meetings
  • Share your feedback
  • Understanding other professionals’ roles
  • Vocabulary: healthcare job titles and hierarchy, roles in multidisciplinary teams

Learning objectives

  • Follow hygiene and safety procedures
  • Describe infection prevention measures
  • Explain your responsibilities during an outbreak or pandemic
  • Vocabulary: hygiene, infection prevention, protective clothing, hand hygiene, cleaning protocols, healthcare waste segregation and recycling

Learning objectives

  • Describe the condition of the skin, any wounds and hygiene
  • Recognise the signs of pressure ulcers (bedsores) and report them
  • Vocabulary: Skin condition, wounds, pressure ulcers, risk factors, pressure points, skin assessment terminology

Learning objectives

  • Recognising conditions such as diabetes, COPD, dementia and Parkinson’s disease
  • Tailor care to symptoms and treatment plans
  • Recognise the symptoms of left- and right-sided heart failure (decompensation) and rheumatic disease
  • Chronic conditions, flare-ups vs stable condition, heart failure (left/right decompensation), rheumatic conditions

Learning objectives

  • Ask about daily routines (sleep, diet, mobility)
  • Encourage patients to do gentle exercises
  • Support mobility
  • Personal care, daily routines, bodily functions and fall prevention

Learning objectives

  • Recognising symptoms after a stroke or injury
  • Describe a rehabilitation plan
  • Participate in appraisal meetings
  • Supporting safe repositioning, transfers and use of mobility aids
  • Rehabilitation, physiotherapy, mobility, assistive devices, stroke symptoms, recovery goals, assessment terminology, repositioning, bed mobility, transfer techniques

Learning objectives

  • Recognising aggressive incidents and behaviour
  • Report them and document them correctly
  • Use de-escalation strategies
  • Respond safely to common emergencies such as hypoglycaemia, epileptic seizures, allergic reactions and shock.
  • Aggression, incident reporting, de-escalation strategies, conflict management, security terminology, hypoglycaemia/hyperglycaemia, epileptic seizures, allergic reactions, shock, AED awareness

Learning objectives

  • Discussing the patient’s wishes for end-of-life care
  • Offering condolences and emotional support
  • Respect cultural and religious differences
  • Palliative care, hospice care, death and religion, emotions, empathy, condolence language

Learning objectives

  • Explaining prescribed and over-the-counter medication
  • Give clear dosage instructions
  • Read and interpret medicine information leaflets
  • Dosage, basic pharmacology, packaging symbols, waste disposal, administration instructions

Learning objectives

  • Recognising eating and swallowing problems
  • Complete lists of drinks and food
  • Monitor hydration status and understand basic fluid balance (intake and output)
  • Healthy diet, aspiration precautions, assistance with eating and drinking, dietary restrictions, dysphagia vocabulary, fluid balance, intake/output (I/O), signs of dehydration, hydration monitoring

Learning objectives

  • Explaining meals and dietary requirements
  • Discuss preferences and tailor menus to suit specific needs
  • Vocabulary: meals and drinks in care settings; food-related vocabulary for diabetes; nutrition for chronic conditions; adapting menus

Learning objectives

  • Helping with urination and bowel movements (using bedpans and urine bottles)
  • Providing hygienic care for incontinence
  • Report the colour, consistency and amount of urine and stool.
  • Excretions; urination/defecation; continence care; bedpans and urinals; personal hygiene care; describing colour, consistency and quantity

Learning objectives

  • Organising activities for residents
  • Holidays and social events
  • Join in informal conversations and family gatherings
  • Vocabulary for social events, parties, informal conversations, family gatherings and celebrations

Learning objectives

  • Describe informal care and family responsibilities
  • How to Support Volunteers
  • Fill in the home care paperwork
  • family roles, relationships, informal care, voluntary support, documenting home care

Learning objectives

  • Recognising the symptoms of schizophrenia, psychotic disorders and severe mental illness
  • Communicating effectively with clients who are experiencing hallucinations, delusions or confusion
  • Supporting clients with intellectual disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. Rett syndrome)
  • Schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, intellectual disability, Rett syndrome, warning signs of a crisis

Learning objectives

  • Use the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) and other pain assessment tools, including non-verbal indicators of pain.
  • Describe the WHO classification system and Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns.
  • Explain Machteld Huber’s “Positive Health” model, including the Content–Process–Interaction–Subsistence levels.
  • Use the SBARR method for clear, structured communication
  • Vocabulary: NRS, pain assessment tools, WHO system, Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns, Positive Health, SBARR, assessment vocabulary, non-verbal indicators of pain

Learning objectives

  • Identify common groups of medicines, such as beta-blockers, and explain their effects and risks.
  • Choose the correct intramuscular (IM) injection site based on the patient’s age, muscle mass and safety considerations.
  • Recognise the signs of malnutrition and support patients who are struggling to stick to their dietary plan.
  • Vocabulary: beta-blockers, intramuscular injection sites (deltoid, ventrogluteal, vastus lateralis), signs of malnutrition, dietary adherence

Learning objectives

  • Preparing patients for surgery, including fasting instructions, hygiene and transport arrangements
  • Supporting patients emotionally and physically before, during and after surgery
  • Explain the difference between sedation, anaesthesia and palliative sedation.
  • Vocabulary: pre-operative checklist, anaesthesia, palliative sedation, sterile field, post-operative care terminology

Learning objectives

  • Getting to know healthcare services and referral pathways
  • Distinguish between inpatient and outpatient care
  • Explain community care and outreach services.
  • Healthcare settings (GP surgeries, care homes), referrals, inpatient and outpatient care, ambulatory care, community care, insurance

Learning objectives

  • Learn to use new hygiene materials and technologies
  • Apply ergonomic techniques safely
  • Describe preventive nursing measures (falls, thrombosis)
  • care equipment, ergonomic techniques, body care tools, preventive care, mobility belts, non-slip materials

Learning objectives

  • Communicating with clients from different cultural backgrounds
  • Supporting residents with hearing or memory difficulties
  • Cultural differences, communication styles, hearing or memory difficulties, supportive communication strategies

Learning objectives

  • Handling ethical dilemmas in everyday nursing practice
  • Apply the principles of confidentiality, autonomy and respect when interacting with patients
  • Comply with professional standards, ethical values and legal requirements
  • Privacy, autonomy, respect, professional values and standards, legal requirements, quality of care

Conversation classes

Start with self-study and switch to a teacher when you are ready.

Start with self-study

  • Study independently in the learning portal
  • AI corrections, audio and video
  • Switch to a teacher later when you are ready

Conversation classes with a teacher

Teachers set their own prices

  • Recommended course plan: 12 weeks
  • 12 conversation classes
  • Includes full self-study in the portal
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All levels

Includes access to all levels

French A1
French A1
French A2
French A2
French B1
French B1

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Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

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Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

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Christina is amazing. From our first lesson I could tell that she really cared and wanted to help me prepare for my exam. I look forward to every lesson! I can't recommend her enough, she is perfect!
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