In the first year of French communication and the sounds of the language are learned through dialogues, learning scenarios, practice exercises, and real-life situations. The students learn to understand, speak, read, and write a limited amount of material and to apply grammatical principles of the language to form new ideas and to communicate them. Cultural information about the countries is taught as a part of the content. To advance to the next level in the language, students need to pass the end of the year assessment.