Alternatives
We are not the only way to do this.
There are four realistic ways to prepare for the TCF Canada or the TEF Canada, and for a decent share of candidates the right answer is not a paid course at all. These pages set out where each option genuinely wins, including the ones that cost you nothing.
Alliance Française
Alliance Française teaches French. We prepare people for one exam, on a deadline, with every writing and speaking task marked by hand. Those are different products, and for a lot of candidates the right answer is one then the other.
See the comparisonitalki, Preply and marketplace tutors
A marketplace sells you tutor hours. A preparation course sells you a plan, a syllabus, marked work and someone tracking whether you are on course for a date. Both are legitimate. They are not the same purchase.
See the comparisonPack Ayoub
The real difference is not price or polish. It is who reads your writing and listens to your speaking. Pack Ayoub answers instantly and never gets tired. A person catches the thing you did not know to ask about. Those are different products, and a lot of candidates should use both.
See the comparisonPrepMyFuture
They sell coverage: a lot of material, both exams, structured and corrected. We sell a narrower thing: a person marking the two sections you cannot mark yourself, against a date. If you do not yet know where you are losing marks, their breadth is the better first purchase.
See the comparisonTV5Monde Apprendre
This is not really a competitor and we are not going to pretend it is. It is the best free listening and reading resource available to a French exam candidate, it costs nothing, and you should use it. What it cannot do is read something you wrote.
See the comparisonSelf-study and free resources
Self-study works when your gap is knowledge. It breaks down when your gap is production, because nobody is marking your writing and nobody is making you speak under time pressure.
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How to read a comparison page written by one of the options
Sceptically, obviously. We wrote these and we sell one of the things being compared, so the incentive runs one way. What we have tried to do instead of pretending otherwise is be specific about when the other option wins, and to avoid quoting anyone else's prices, because those are set independently and we would only get them wrong.
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