French lessons for my 10 year old

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My son has been following a French programme locally for 6 years and will be going into secondary school Sep 16. Are there any programmes online that anyone can recommend that will help him to continue with his learning and bridge the gap for the next 12-15 months if I choose to drop his tuition classes. (Now at an awkward time). Seen a couple but not sure how good they are without trying some free tasters.

Thanks in advance.

How advanced is he? There is an app called duolingo that my son has used for Spanish that is free. It's good, but it is fairly basic - useful up to about european level A2 I would think.

Thanks for that Mistigiri. To be honest it's difficult to know what level he is at as he's never really taken a test as such. I was looking at Rosetta Stone but wasn't sure if it was good for children. I think his vocabulary is quite good over a range of topic areas but just wanted something that would prepare him for the road to GCSE.

I think duolingo would be good for vocabulary building, basic grammar and prononciation (there are lots of oral exercises).

I haven't looked at the french version, but the spanish one is certainly appropriate at pre-GCSE level. It's designed for adult learners but fine for secondary school students. Not sure how well it would work for a 10 year old, but it's free to try. You earn points that you can use to unlock extra functionality so it has "computer game appeal".

Duolingo is a good online tool, as already mentioned. Otherwise, you could look into hiring a tutor to maintain his conversational/written French!