Your progress is kept against your Odedara Labs account, so it follows you between devices.
Everything on this page is computed from what you have actually done — not from the plan's promises. If a number here looks bad, it is because the week was bad.
Start with today's lesson. Everything you answer is stored and fed into the weekly test.
One quick round on the words you are working through. It costs about forty seconds and it is the cheapest way to find out which words have not stuck.
Twenty-six weeks split into six months, each with one level to reach. The pin you are standing on is ringed; the orange stretch behind it is the days you have actually done.
A square a day, a column a week. Six study days and a lighter seventh — the shape of a fortnight that fell apart shows up here without your having to read a number.
Three of them you open every day. The rest are there when you need them — nothing here is homework you have missed.
Recomputed every time you finish a weekly test. The model is printed underneath — nothing here is a guess dressed up as a number.
NCLC 7 in all four skills — not on average. That threshold opens the French-language category draws, whose CRS cut-offs run well below the general draws. The same level paired with CLB 5 English is worth +50 CRS points.
| TEF Canada paper | Format | NCLC 7 | NCLC 9 |
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| Compréhension orale listening | 60 q · 40 min | 249–279 | 298–315 |
| Compréhension écrite reading | 50 q · 60 min | 206–232 | 248–262 |
| Expression écrite writing | 2 sections · 60 min | 310–348 | 371–392 |
| Expression orale speaking | 2 sections · 15 min | 310–348 | 371–392 |
Twelve words a day, six days a week, then four drills on those same words. A word only counts as known once you have got it right reading, hearing, writing and saying it.
Twelve words a day, six days a week, then four drills on the same words — read, listen, write, speak. Nothing here is a link to somewhere else; the whole loop happens on this page.
Greetings and courtesy — the first twelve words, and the ones you will use every single day for six months.
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| Français | English | In a sentence |
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Pick a skill above to start drilling these words. Do all four and the lesson counts as done.
The words come back on their own. Get one right and it waits longer before returning; get it wrong and it is back today. Nothing here is chosen by you, and that is the point: you would keep picking the words you already know.
Two things the four drills never catch. A word can be right in all four dots and still come out as la problème; and no amount of reading will conjugate a verb you have only ever met in the infinitive. Both come back on the same schedule as your words.
le bleu, la orange — the colour is on the article only, never on the noun.
Open so far:
A tense opens in the week the plan teaches it, not before.
Every word you have been given, and how solid it is in each of the four skills. A word counts as mastered only when you have got it right in all four — reading it is not knowing it.
| Français | English | L · É · W · P | Week |
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L = lire · É = écouter · W = écrire · P = parler
Look up any word — French or English. You get more than a translation: the gender, the register, what people actually say, the traps, and examples. A translation tells you what a word means; this tells you how to use it without sounding foreign.
Type a word above. Words you have already learned answer instantly, even offline — the rest ask Claude for a full explanation, and are then kept for good.
Twenty questions across all four skills, drawn from the week's words and weighted three-to-one toward the ones you got wrong. Then it is marked, rated, and folded into your projection.
It unlocks once you have finished four of the week's six lessons. Twenty questions across all four skills, drawn from that week's words and weighted three-to-one toward the ones you got wrong. Then it rates you, tells you what your error pattern actually is, and moves your B1 and B2 dates.
Locked — finish four lessons this week to open it.
The real shape and the real clock. Four papers in one sitting, in order, and the clock does not stop because you looked away. That is the half of the exam no amount of vocabulary prepares you for.
2 h 55 in the real thing. This one runs the same clock on a shorter paper — the format and the timing are real, the question count is not.
The average across all tests is the number that drives your B1 and B2 dates. One bad week moves it very little; four bad weeks move it a lot.
| Week | Overall | Lire | Écouter | Écrire | Parler | Rating |
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NCLC 7 is required in all four, separately. Your worst skill is your score — the other three cannot carry it. This page exists to tell you which one is currently sinking you.
Ranked worst first, with what to actually do about it. The card outlined in orange is the one to spend this week on.
Four panels rather than four lines on one chart: at this scale you need to see which single skill is lagging, and a shared axis hides exactly that. The dashed line is 80% — the working target for NCLC 7.
Ordered so each thing is just inside what you can follow at that point in the plan. Every film carries a link that shows where it is streaming in Canada right now, because that changes month to month and I will not pretend otherwise.
The passive hours. Three and a half of them a day, which over 26 weeks is more input than the desk work. Start at the top of this list and move down as it stops being hard.
One film a week, ordered so that each is just inside what you can follow at that point. It starts with a film that has almost no dialogue and ends with one you will understand completely. From week 12 the list turns Québécois on purpose — the TEF has Canadian voices on it, and a learner raised only on Parisian French hears them as a different language.
How to watch. French audio, French subtitles, always. English subtitles turn a film into reading practice with a soundtrack. Watch it once for the story and once for the language — the second pass is where the learning is.
The standing resources, as opposed to the week-by-week ones. These are the things you keep open for six months. I have linked channels and sites rather than individual videos on purpose: a specific video URL rots within a year, a channel does not.
Five modes, all drawing on the words you have actually been taught, weighted toward the ones you keep getting wrong. Everything you answer here still counts toward mastery in your lexicon — it is the same data, played instead of drilled.
Six words, four choices, nothing to set up. It is the same game as on the first screen and the same words as your drills — what you answer here counts.
Six month rewards, each unlocked by finishing the month, each one editable so it is something you actually want. The week rewards live on your profile with the day grid.
Four modes. A tutor who corrects your French, role-plays to practise speaking, a grammar teacher who answers any question, and a coach who sees your real numbers and tells you what to do this week.
The four modes below need a connection. This one does not — it runs with the wifi off, because that is when you are actually sitting at the kitchen table. It is not an AI: it is a script, and it says so. The TEF oral is not free conversation — it is two precise tasks, and a script holds them better than a chat does.
Four modes, all of which need a connection and your own Claude quota.
Every message uses your own Claude quota. Conversations are not kept between sessions — copy anything that matters.
You already function in English. The job is not to improve it — it is to convert a level you already have into CRS points, at the lowest possible cost in time stolen from French.
You already function in English. The goal is not to improve — it is to convert a level you already have into points, at the lowest possible cost in time stolen from French.
| Period | Load | What |
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| Months 1–2 · W1–W9 | 30 min/day | Upkeep only: reading or a podcast in English in the evening. No exam preparation — it would go stale before you sit anything. |
| Month 3 · W10–W12 | 90 min/day | The intensive block. CELPIP-General (computer-based, Canadian accents) or IELTS General. Format work only: task structure, timing, the marking criteria. Sit it at the end of W12. |
| Months 4–6 · W13–W26 | 0 | Done. Every minute goes back to French. |
Both are accepted for Express Entry. Pick one in week 9 and never revisit the decision — switching costs you a week of format learning for no gain.
| CELPIP-General | IELTS General Training | |
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| Format | Fully computer-based, one sitting, about 3 hours | Paper or computer; speaking is a separate in-person interview |
| Accents | Canadian throughout | British, Australian, and others |
| Speaking | Recorded answers to a screen, no interviewer | Face to face with an examiner |
| Results | Usually within days | Usually within 1–2 weeks |
| Pick this if | You would rather talk to a machine than a stranger, and you want Canadian accents | You perform better with a human, or a test centre near you only offers IELTS |
Weeks 10 to 12, ninety minutes a day, and then it is closed forever. This is format work, not language work — treat it as learning a form, like a driving test.
| Week | Focus | What you actually do |
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| W10 | Diagnose | Sit one full timed practice test cold, on day one, before studying anything. It tells you which of the four papers is the only one worth your ninety minutes. |
| W11 | Drill the form | Writing and speaking templates. Both tests reward a predictable structure — an opening, two developed points, a close. Memorise the shape, not the content. |
| W12 | Sit it | Two more full timed papers early in the week, then the real test. Book it in week 9 so this date exists before you need it. |
The TEF does not test your French. It tests whether you can take a position and defend it, in writing and out loud, inside a fixed time. That is a separate skill from knowing the language, and most candidates who fail have the French but not this.
Section B of the written paper, and the second half of the oral. Learn one structure so completely that you can run it under pressure without thinking about it — then all your attention goes on the French.
Do not learn these as a list. Learn two per job, and use those two until they are automatic.
Never learn the subjunctive as a conjugation table. Learn the phrases that force it, as fixed units, and the verb form follows on its own. These six carry almost all of the exam.
Give yourself a position you do not hold and defend it in 200 words in 45 minutes. Arguing a side you disagree with forces the concession move, which is the one that earns the level.
Earned only, never given. Each one is a real threshold rather than a participation mark — which is why several of them will sit locked for months.
Earned only, never given. Each one is a real threshold rather than a participation mark.
The 26-week plan, the admin milestones with longer lead times than you would guess, and everything to do with profiles and backups.
Your name, your icon, your password and the French dial all live behind your name at the top of every screen. This page is about one thing only: how far along you are.
Everyone signed in to this course, ranked by points. Lessons are shared — written once, they serve everyone; the words, the scores and the streaks stay each person's own.
These are not learned, they are triggered — and several have longer lead times than you would guess. Missing the first one pushes everything else back.
This page normally writes your progress to a synced database and asks Claude to compose each new lesson. Neither works without a connection — so it keeps a local copy of everything and lets you run days ahead of yourself.
Weeks 1 and 2 — twelve lessons, 152 words — are built into the page and need nothing at all. Beyond those, this writes the next seven lessons now and stores them locally. Do it on a Sunday.
Nothing cached ahead yet.One JSON file with every lesson, every score, every word in your lexicon and every test result. This is your backup and the way you move between this page and the local copy.
A copy of this page lives in your project at french/index.html. It needs no build step and no internet — your Mac has python3, which is all it takes:
python3 french/serve.py
Then open localhost:8125. Export from here, import there, and a flight or a dead router costs you nothing.
Three day shapes, repeated 26 times. What fills each block changes every month; the clock does not — that is what makes six months survivable. ≈ 6 h 50 of active work plus 3 h 30 of passive immersion, Monday to Friday.
| Time | Length | Block | How |
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| 06:45 | 15 min | Shadowing | Repeat aloud behind a 2-minute clip. Ear first, before coffee. |
| 07:00 | 45 min | Breakfast | Podcast running. Passive — take no notes. |
| 07:45 | 90 min | Bloc 1 grammar | New structures from the course. Hardest work at the freshest hour. |
| 09:15 | 20 min | Break | Away from the screen. Walk. |
| 09:35 | 45 min | Bloc 2 Anki | Reviews first, then the day's new cards. Never skipped, not once. |
| 10:20 | 10 min | Break | |
| 10:30 | 60 min | Bloc 3 reading | Read, then mine whole sentences into Anki — never isolated words. |
| 11:30 | 60 min | Lunch + walk | Podcast on the walk. |
| 12:30 | 60 min | Bloc 4 speaking | Live tutor. The one block of the day that is not negotiable. |
| 13:30 | 30 min | Break | |
| 14:00 | 60 min | Bloc 5 writing | Write, then submit it for correction. Writing without correction teaches you nothing. |
| 15:00 | 30 min | Break | |
| 15:30 | 60 min | Bloc 6 listening | Active: dictation, transcription, replay. No subtitles. |
| 16:30 | 90 min | Sport / outside | Recovery is part of the method, not time lost from it. |
| 18:00 | 20 min | Anki, 2nd pass | Catches the morning's new cards at the right interval. |
| 18:20 | 30–90 min | English | Months 1–3 only. See the English track. Zero from Month 4. |
| 19:30 | 60 min | Dinner | |
| 20:30 | 90 min | Immersion | A series or film in French, with French subtitles. Never English ones. |
| 22:00 | 20 min | Reading in bed | Then sleep. Consolidation happens there, not in a 13th hour. |
| Time | Length | Block | How |
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| 08:00 | 45 min | Anki | Saturday excuses nothing. |
| 09:00 | 120 min | Timed test | A weekly check; from Month 5, a real TEF section under exam conditions. |
| 11:15 | 60 min | Error analysis | Every mistake goes into the error log and into Anki. This hour is what makes the test worth taking. |
| 12:30 | 90 min | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | 60 min | Tutor — free talk | No prepared topic. This is the week's real test. |
| 15:15 | 45 min | Week review | Hours done, cards added, what slipped, what changes on Monday. |
| 20:00 | 120 min | French film | For pleasure. French subtitles. |
| Time | Length | Block | How |
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| 09:00 | 30 min | Anki | The only obligation of the day. Skipping one Sunday costs three days of catch-up. |
| open | 90 min | Input for pleasure | Comics (Astérix, Tintin, Persepolis), music, YouTube. No dictionary, no notes, no guilt. |
| — | rest | Everything off | This is not a reward, it is engineering. Full-time learners collapse around week 8 — the ones who skip Sunday collapse sooner. |
Tick each day you actually did. Open a week for its five tasks. The grid remembers, so you can mark days from your phone and see them here.
Build the ear and the mouth before the grammar has anywhere to land. Ten days of pure phonetics at the start — the only point in six months where you can afford to spend time that way, and the one thing that is genuinely hard to fix later.
The month French becomes usable. Everything that has ever happened to you becomes tellable — and the split between passé composé and imparfait is the most expensive single difficulty at this level.
The pronoms compléments are what separate A2 from B1: as long as you keep repeating the noun, you sound like a beginner. This is also the only month where English deserves your time.
Le TEF ne teste pas votre français — il teste votre capacité à défendre une position, à l'écrit comme à l'oral. On commence cette forme précise maintenant, quatre mois avant l'examen.
Arrêtez d'apprendre le français. Apprenez l'examen. Des candidats parfaitement B2 ratent une section parce qu'ils en découvrent le format le jour même.
Six semaines et non quatre : les résultats mettent trois à quatre semaines à arriver, et cette attente fait partie du plan au lieu d'être un trou dedans.