Mistake translating ‘French class’ in French
In French you cannot say ‘French class’. Your class is not French itself: it’s a class about the French language. ‘French class’ is an idiom in English.
So translating word by word and saying: “une classe française” is a mistake. Here is more about how to translate French in French in this article.
How To Translate ‘French class’ in French
When you say ‘a French class’, what you are really saying is a class about the French language.
a French class = a class of French language = une classe/un cours DE FRANÇAIS.
You could also say “une classe de langue française”, or use another way of translating ‘class’ : un cours de français, un cours de langue française…
The point of this article being to point out that you cannot say “un cours français” or “une classe française”.
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How to say ‘I’m taking a French class’
5 Ways To translate ‘I’m taking a French class’ in French
To translate the whole sentence, ‘I’m taking a French class’ is French you have several options:
- “Je suis un cours/une classe de français” (of the verb “suivre”: ‘to follow’)
This is the most common way of saying ‘I’m taking a French class’ in French, albeit a bit formal. - “Je prends un cours/ une classe de français”
This is also very common - “Je fais partie d’un cours/ d’une classe de français”
I’m part of a French class - “Je suis inscrit dans un cours/une classe de français”
I’m registered in a French class - “J’assiste à un cours/une classe de français”
I follow a French class
In any case, to say “French” for a class, it’s “de français“, never “français/française”, which is my point :-)
More about how to translate French and France in French.
How to translate ‘I study French’ in French
To say ‘I study French’, here is what you can say:
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