French the natural way: how to speak confidently in 5 steps

Coucou les French learners,

Il pleut, il pleut bergère… It is raining, it is raining sheperdess…

I would have given my head to be cut that it would be a nice day today!

It is a popular song for children which has its origins in a French opera or opéra comique written in 1780 by Fabre d’Églantine.

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French the natural way: des histoires d’amour

Coucou les French learners,

last week, we celebrated l’amour, la Saint Valentin !

I cannot live without you, it is that LOVE

Read this interesting article about this special day.

Des histoires d’amour

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French the natural way: how to aid comprehension?

Coucou les French learners,

La confiance, confidence is key !

“One earns confidence by drops and loses it by litres” Jean-Paul Sartre

Over the past few weeks, I have truly come to believe that gaining confidence is key to acquire another language.

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French the natural way: 4 steps to read French books

Coucou les French learners,

The other day, I was listening to the French radio and I learned that the word livre, book comes from the Latin word liber which means free. 

When you read a book, you learn something new,

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French the natural way: boost your French!

Coucou les French learners,

I am motivated and excited about my new plan to acquire Portuguese. This weekend, I met my online Portuguese booster on Verbling, Clóvis Alves who shared lots of different ways to get input every day. I am hoping to meet him for an hour weekly and to listen to comprehensible input every day,

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