B2 Core Program · Upper-Intermediate French
Rock, monstres et métaphores
Explore French with Dionysos
What if learning French felt like stepping into a Tim Burton film? Join the French surrealist rock band Dionysos and its frontman-author Mathias Malzieu on a linguistic road trip where rock collides with fairy tales. In a universe of mechanical hearts, monsters, and endearing creatures, you will expand your vocabulary, refine your grammar, and learn to create, debate, and dream in French.
Who It's For
Who this course is made for
B2 learners who want to improve French through music, stories, and lyrics
Fans of rock, fantasy literature, Burton-esque aesthetics, and surreal creativity
Learners who want stronger argumentation, grammatical precision, and creative expression
Anyone interested in describing emotion, difference, transformation, and personal growth
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, I can…
Through four iconic Dionysos albums, master hypothesis, concession, condition, restriction, and cause-and-effect while developing a more vivid and creative French voice.
Build vocabulary for wandering, strange beauty, body mechanics, and transformation
Use si + imperfect or pluperfect to construct unreal scenarios
Practice concession with bien que, avoir beau, and même si
Use metaphor and psychological description to express emotional complexity
Narrate personal growth through cause, consequence, and changes of state
Course Content
Four themes, from French rock to generational memory
Four units explore landmark Dionysos albums, moving from snowy roads and monsters in love to mechanical hearts and radiant transformation. Each session combines songs, stories, vocabulary, and B2 grammar to awaken your creativity.
SOMMAIRE · Course OutlineWestern sous la neige
The Surreal Road Trip
Bend reality, play with idioms, and use hypotheses to create absurd and fascinating worlds
Monsters in Love
The Poetry of Monsters
Explore strange beauty, acceptance, and difference while contrasting appearance and reality through concession
La Mécanique du cœur
The Anatomy of Feelings
Use body, mechanics, and metaphor to describe the fragility of love with precision
Bird 'n' Roll
Flight and Metamorphosis
Use vocabulary of space, movement, and changing states to narrate transformation and self-surpassing
Vocabulary
L'errance, le voyage et les expressions détournées
Wandering, travel, and twisted idioms
Le clair-obscur, l'étrange et la différence
Chiaroscuro, strangeness, and difference
Le corps, la mécanique et les émotions
The body, mechanics, and emotion
L'espace, le mouvement et la métamorphose
Space, movement, and metamorphosis
La créativité, l'acceptation et le dépassement de soi
Creativity, acceptance, and self-surpassing
Grammar
L'hypothèse irréelle
si + imperfect or pluperfect
La concession
bien que, avoir beau, and même si
La condition et la restriction
Condition, restriction, and a targeted review of the subjunctive
La métaphore et la description psychologique
Metaphor and psychological description
La cause et la conséquence
Logical connectors for cause and consequence
