French the natural way: la lecture extensive

Coucou les French learners,

l’été est à nos portes, summer is around the corner !

The best excuse to READ sur l’herbe, on the grass, sur la sable, on the sand, au bord de la piscine,

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French the natural way: MERCI

Coucou les French learners,

un grand merci, A big thank you!

Merci pour … Thank you for your wonderful comments on my YouTube channel. They encourage me daily to keep on producing videos with comprehensible and compelling French input.

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French the natural way: juste la lecture…

Coucou les French learners,

Le printemps est arrivé chez moi ! Spring has arrived at my home!

At this time last year, I published a video about a special garden in la Bretagne,

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French the natural way: le secret pour acquérir le Français

Coucou les French learners,

La compréhension, comprehension is the key to acquire a language.

Terry Waltz, a Chinese teacher and polyglot explains in a thoughtful article about second language acquisition that “Comprehensible Input (abbreviated as “CI”) is what makes people gain proficiency in a language.

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French the natural way: les deux ingrédients

Coucou les French learners,

C’est presque la fin du mois de janvier, it is nearly the end of January.

Are you keeping with your resolutions or objectives?

This year: I stop smoking, I do sport,

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French the natural way: get Frenchfidence

Coucou les French learners,

I love meeting my learners each day (except Wednesday which is my “recharging” day) because they bring so much fun and joy.

Last year around the same time, I started the “Meet the learners” series.  You got to meet:

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French the natural way : l’objectif de l’année !

Coucou les French learners,

As we start the new year, we are full of new resolutions! Download this questionnaire in French on Mondolinguo about what you intend to do this year.

The BIG questions is will we keep them?!

“This week I stay cool,

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