French the natural way: voyage au Portugal

Coucou les French learners,

Je suis de retour à la maison ! I am back home! J’étais en voyage au Portugal ! I was travelling in Portugal!

Viana do Castelo au Portugal.

Portugal is such a beautiful country and les portugais sont très hospitaliers,

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French the natural way: input is crucial

Coucou les French learners,

Lately I have been reading a lot of articles and blog posts on how to keep up with learning a new language. La rentrée is over and most of us are back to work and to our daily chores.

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French the natural way : le quinze août

Coucou les French learners,

Bienvenus, welcome back!!!

It has been a while but I am back home after an amazing road trip through Spain and France! I have many good news to share with you but first I want to talk to you about le quinze août,

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French the natural way: la fête du cinéma

Coucou les French learners,

We, the French like to celebrate!!!

Two weeks ago we celebrated music and last week it was the movies turn with la fête du cinéma. It lasted for four days from Sunday to Wednesday and the idea is to promote cinema and theaters.

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French the natural way: attitude is key

“ La joie s’acquiert. Elle est une attitude de courage. Etre joyeux n’est pas une facilité, c’est une volonté. ” Gaston Courtois.
“Joy is something you acquire. It is an attitude of courage. To be joyful is not a competence, it is a will.”

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French the natural way: Read!

“The path of pleasure is the only path. The path of pain does not work in language acquisition.” Stephen Krashen.

How is the May Challenge going?

One of my learners loves to read and she wants to read interesting books in French.

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French the natural way: May challenge

Coucou les French learners,

Do what pleases you!

There is a popular French proverb ” En mai, fais ce qu’il te plaît “, in May do what pleases you.

As well as being passionate about languages, I have another passion which is yoga.

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