For Express Entry candidates learning French for the points
Your profile has a clock on it. Don't let your French score be the reason it expires.
Everything else is ready to file. You just need the score — starting from zero, around a full-time job, and maybe a kid. Érable is TEF/TCF Canada prep built for exactly that: one guided session a day, aimed at the level your points need, not at French you'll never use.
Takes 2 minutes to set up.
- Starts at absolute zero, no French needed
- Built for TEF / TCF Canada, all four skills
- $19 a month instead of $500 in tutors
My story
I needed a French score to stay in the country I'd already made home.
KatherineImmigrant in Canada, learning French for the points
The deadline is the part nobody warns you about. Studying French while working full-time feels like a second job, and every week the profile sits there ticking.
I opened the usual apps and after two months I could name animals and order coffee. Nothing in them looked like the exam I actually had to pass, and the courses I found cost hundreds of dollars.
So I went looking for what research says about learning a language fast as an adult, and I found a method studied in classrooms since the 1970s: calm state first, a lot of listening, music underneath, then speaking out loud before you feel ready. The problem was that nobody had put it in a phone.
Érable is that: one guided session a day, in a fixed order, with the vocabulary, speaking corrections and exam simulator I wanted for myself.
The method
Built so one hour goes further than three hours of drilling.
Érable is built on an accelerated-learning method developed by a physician and researcher, formally reviewed by international experts and measured in dozens of classroom studies. Its core ideas are simple: remove the fear of getting it wrong — the same fear that makes people blank out on exam day — let your ear absorb far more than you can consciously repeat, and start producing early.
1978
An international panel of experts convened by UNESCO studied this accelerated-learning method and recommended it for language teaching.
40+
Published classroom studies have measured the method and its components since the 1970s, including a formal meta-analysis.
30+
Countries where teachers have been trained in it and taught it in real classrooms over the last five decades.
Honest note: researchers disagree about how much of the effect comes from the method itself versus the extra hours and the motivation it creates. Érable gives you both — the structure and the hours. No app can guarantee an exam score.
Here's everything you get
Six things a tutor would charge you hundreds for
One session waiting for you, every day
Five steps in a fixed order. No deciding, no planning, no guilt about what you should be doing instead. You open it and start.
From zero to the level the points ask for
Twelve weeks built around real Canadian life: housing, banking, health, work, immigration paperwork. Nothing about croissants.
Speaking corrections you can trust
Say it out loud, get told in green what was right. No tutor who takes your money and corrects nothing.
Words that come back before you forget them
Roughly 2,500 words and phrases, resurfaced on schedule so the hours you already put in don't leak away.
TEF/TCF simulator, all four skills
Timed reading, listening, writing and speaking, with an estimated level — so you stop guessing whether you're ready and book the date.
In your pocket, for the ten minutes you actually find
Add it to your home screen. It works on the bus, at lunch, at 5 a.m. before the house wakes up. No app store, works offline.
Pricing
Courses cost $300 to $750. A tutor costs that in a month. This costs less than one session.
Founder pricing for the first members. Regular price will be $34 a month and $89 for the 90-day sprint.
Monthly flex
$19 /month
Founder price, locked while you stay subscribed
- Full 12-week course
- Vocabulary review and speaking check
- Exam simulator
- Cancel any time
$19 a month instead of $34.
90-day exam sprint
$49 one payment
The exact length of the course — about $16 a month, no renewal
- Everything in monthly
- Covers the full 12 weeks to exam day
- Pay once — no subscription, no auto-renewal
- Best if you already have an exam date
$49 once. Save $8 versus 3 months of flex.
Why this is different
I know, another language app. Here's the honest comparison.
What you've already tried
- $300–$750 courses, and tutors who take the money without correcting you
- Duolingo — two months in, you can name animals, not pass an exam
- Prep platforms with repetitive exercises that feel nothing like the real test
- Classes at a fixed hour you can't make, with a job and a kid
- You decide every day what to study, so on the hard days you don't
With Érable
- $19 a month, cancel whenever — no second job to pay for prep
- Every unit pointed at TEF/TCF Canada and life outside Quebec
- A timed simulator so you know your level before you pay the exam fee
- Fits the hours you actually have, at whatever time you have them
- The app opens on the exact step you left off, even after a bad week
My promise to you
Create your account and do the first week. If it isn't for you, cancel and you are not charged again — no $500 lost on a tutor who didn't correct you. Your progress stays yours, and you can delete your account at any time.
One honest note: results depend on you. Érable gives you the plan, the practice and the corrections, but the hours are yours to put in. No app — and no tutor — can promise a TEF or TCF Canada score, an NCLC level, or an immigration outcome.
Before you start
Questions people ask me
I work full-time. Do I really need ninety minutes a day?
Ninety minutes is the fast lane — twelve weeks to exam-ready. Thirty or forty-five minutes still works, it just takes longer, and the app keeps the plan for you either way. Nothing is lost on the days life wins.
What makes it different from the courses and tutors?
Price and focus. Courses run $300 to $750 and teach general French; tutors are expensive and inconsistent. Every minute here points at the score you need for your points, not at fluency you don't have time to build.
Which method is this based on?
A scientifically studied accelerated-learning approach from the 1970s, reviewed by an international expert panel and measured in dozens of classroom studies. It lowers the anxiety that makes you blank out, pairs language with music and repetition, and moves you quickly from listening to speaking. Results vary, and no method can promise an exam score.
Do I need to know any French?
No. Week one starts at absolute zero, with the alphabet, sounds and your first full sentences. Most people here started from scratch.
Which exam is it for?
TEF Canada and TCF Canada, the two exams accepted for Canadian permanent residence outside Quebec. The simulator covers all four skills.
Do I need to download it from the App Store?
No. Open it in your browser and tap "Add to Home Screen". It sits on your phone like any other app.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time. The monthly plan stops at the end of the month you already paid for.
Twelve weeks from today, this could be behind you.
Not another month of losing steam. Answering in French, out loud, on a timer — and finally filing the profile that's been sitting there.
From $19 a month, or $49 for 90 days.
P.S. If the nerves are the worst part — the blanking out, the feeling that you were delusional to try — that is exactly what this method was designed to take off you. You don't need talent. You need a plan that fits the hours you actually have.
Already have an account? Sign in