Online and Remote Learning

The better your French, the greater your opportunities in Canada's civil services and other fields including law, politics and hospitality. If you've successfully completed 0652 French: Level V or have the equivalent skills, this course will help you speak more fluently and spontaneously. By the course's end, you should be able to enter into conversation, without preparation, on topics that are familiar or pertinent to everyday life and work. Reinforce overall proficiency to express experiences and events, hopes and ambitions. Connect phrases so you can explain ideas and plans and express opinions. Narrate a story or relate the plot of a book and describe your reactions.

Refresh your French grammar while developing more fluency in everyday communications in spoken and written French. We’ll focus on practising grammar, both oral and written. We’ll cover more advanced grammar structures in the past, present, and future to allow you to handle more complex everyday situations as well as express nuanced thought with the subjunctive and the conditional. Use COD and COI pronouns effectively. Structure complex sentences using subjunctive thereby nuancing expression. Refine your understanding of past tenses. Understand greater range of negative structures (adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and conjunctions…). Express obligation, intention, capacity, permission, advice or regret with subjunctive.

Learn to translate English into French, a skill always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. This self-study course will help you analyze and accurately translate documents, preserving the essence and integrity of the original. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Become more proficient in translating complex material. Use precise French phrases and elegant sentence structure. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Develop subtlety and nuance in your translations.

This self-study course builds your skills in translation, always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. It's for those who have completed 0662 Translation: French Level I and are ready to produce more complex translations, preserving the essence and integrity of the original. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Translate more complex material. Use precise French phrases and elegant sentence structure. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Increase the subtlety and nuance of your translations.

If you have completed 0663 Translation: French Level II and are already producing more nuanced and complex translations, this self-study course will build your skills in translation, always in demand in the Canadian civil services, law, business, literature and media. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle challenging translations with confidence. Use elegant sentence structure, syntax and phrasing. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Write subtle and nuanced translations.

You've had success in SCS 0669 French Level II, or already possess the equivalent basic grammar and conversation skills. Now, you can expand your vocabulary and learn more structure, idioms and cultural etiquette with this course. By exploring some of the complexities of conversational French, this course builds on the language skills you already possess. Students who take this course are already comfortable giving directions, such as how to go from your home to your workplace, comparing objects and using with adequate adjectives and adverbs, and expressing what they can and cannot do. Classroom role-playing and other interactive exercises reinforce the skills you need to exchange advice and points of view. In this course, you will learn to talk about the past using different past tenses, discuss historical events and processes, compare the past and present situations and habits, and describe situations using more complex syntax like relative clauses. On a personal level, students will be able to talk about their biography, past experiences, and career choices. The School teaches standard international French and standard Quebec French in cases where differences occur. To determine if French Level III is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment. Correct grammar usage, syntax and vocabulary. Correct using of different negation forms. Learning how to describe historical events using the right tenses. Talking about events that occurred in the past, mostly within your own experience. Use relative and indirect personal pronouns. Utilizing more complex grammatical structures to expand conversational ability.

This course is an introduction to the structures of spoken and written French. You'll learn both standard international French and standard Québécois French when they are different. By the course's end you'll learn to greet people, express likes and dislikes, ask and answer simple questions, write a simple postcard or email and fill in simple forms. Weekly written homework reinforces and advances your grasp of grammar, syntax and vocabulary.   To determine if French Level I is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment.   Speak and understand full sentences about simple everyday situations using correct grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Begin to imitate French pronunciation. Begin to understand the logic of French sentences and tenses.

Build on the basic skills you developed in 0667 French: Level I or already possess. Weekly assignments will expand your vocabulary and grammar skills so you can take part more fully in conversations. You'll gain a greater grasp of idioms and cultural etiquette. You'll be able to participate in social events at a basic level, give simple instructions and directions and describe people and places in a simple way. You'll learn standard international French and standard Québécois French where there are differences. To determine if French Level II is the right fit for you, please take a moment to complete our French Entry Level Self-Assessment. Form and understand simple but complete sentences. Use appropriate grammar, syntax and vocabulary in some everyday situations.

If you already have some background in finance, accounting or auditing, this course will take you deeper inside complex business entities. You'll learn how partnerships, corporations and foreign currency transactions work and how to analyze consolidated financial statements. You'll learn more about six principal areas of advanced financial accounting: standard-setting in Canada and internationally, financial instruments and income tax allocation, long-term inter-corporate investments, consolidation, foreign currency translation and the translation and consolidation of foreign subsidiaries, and not-for-profit and public-sector accounting. Understand accounting for long-term investments. Be more familiar with business combinations and structures. Appreciate the importance of consolidation. Be more aware of accounting standards and global currency forces.

If you've successfully completed 0983 Management Accounting or have equivalent skills, this course will prepare you to tackle higher-level issues using more complex processes and systems. You'll build on the skills you already have and command a wider range of accounting resources that can help organizations achieve their financial goals. Whether you work in the finance, accounting or audit sectors, you'll learn valuable techniques and acquire useful skills that make you stand out in your workplace. Use advanced concepts related to cost-volume-profit analysis, decentralization and transfer pricing. Understand the Canadian tax system in relation to capital budgeting. Apply concepts of activity-based accounting. Become familiar with cost flows in a joint-production process. Understand capital budgeting under conditions of certainty and uncertainty.