Le cours explique comment secourir et réanimer la victime.

Yes. Here, un cours means a class, lesson, or course.

So Le cours means the course or the class.

A useful warning: French course and cours are not always the same thing.

• un cours = a class / lesson / course
• une course = a race
• faire les courses = to go shopping / do the shopping

So in this sentence, cours clearly means an educational course.

French usually needs an article before a noun, much more often than English does.

So:

• Le cours explique... = The course explains...

In English, titles, labels, or notes sometimes drop the article, but in a normal full sentence French generally keeps it.

Because after comment, French often uses the infinitive to mean how to do something.

So:

• comment secourir et réanimer la victime
  = how to rescue and resuscitate the victim

This is very common in instructions, manuals, training materials, and course descriptions.

Compare:

• Le cours explique comment secourir la victime.
• This course explains how to help the victim.

French does not need to conjugate those verbs here, because the idea is general: it is explaining how to do it.

Yes, you could, but it changes the style.

• comment secourir et réanimer la victime = more concise, instructional, and typical of manuals or course descriptions
• comment on secourt et réanime la victime = more like how one helps and resuscitates the victim / how people do it

The infinitive version is more natural in this kind of sentence.

Because French says comment + infinitive, not comment de + infinitive.

So:

• comment secourir
• comment réanimer

are correct.

But:

• comment de secourir
• comment de réanimer

are incorrect.

This is the same pattern you see in sentences like:

• Je sais comment faire. = I know how to do it.
• Il explique comment utiliser l’appareil. = He explains how to use the device.

Because both verbs share the same object.

In other words, the sentence means:

• secourir la victime
• et réanimer la victime

But French, like English, can avoid repeating the object when it is the same for both verbs:

• secourir et réanimer la victime

This is completely natural and efficient.

You could repeat it for emphasis or clarity:

• secourir la victime et la réanimer

But the original version is smoother.

No. Both verbs take a direct object.

So you say:

• secourir la victime
• réanimer la victime

not:

• secourir à la victime
• réanimer à la victime

This is important, because English learners sometimes expect a preposition where French does not use one.

La victime sounds like the victim in a known situation or in a standard first-aid scenario.

In French, the definite article is often used when the role is understood from the context. In a first-aid course, there is typically the victim being discussed as part of the procedure.

• la victime = the victim
• une victime = a victim / one victim

If the sentence were introducing the idea for the first time in a more general way, une victime could be possible. But in training or procedural language, la victime is very natural.

They are related, but not the same.

• secourir = to help, rescue, or come to the aid of someone in danger
• réanimer = to revive or resuscitate someone

So secourir is broader. It can include giving help, making the situation safe, calling emergency services, and assisting the person.

Réanimer is more specific. It refers to bringing someone back to consciousness or life functions, often in a medical or first-aid sense, such as resuscitation.

In this sentence, using both verbs suggests the course covers both general emergency aid and resuscitation.

Réanimer is pronounced roughly like ray-ah-nee-may.

The accent in ré shows that the first e is pronounced clearly as ay. It also helps separate the beginning of the word:

• ré-animer

So you hear the start as two parts, not as a single blurred sound.

A rough pronunciation of the whole sentence is:

luh koor ex-pleek koh-mahn suh-koo-reer ay ray-ah-nee-may lah veek-teem

That is only an approximation, but it can help you get started.

It is correct and common, especially in formal, emergency, legal, or first-aid contexts. But in casual everyday speech, French speakers often use simpler verbs such as:

• aider = to help
• sauver = to save

So in a first-aid course, secourir sounds very appropriate and precise. In ordinary conversation, aider may be more common.