French the natural way: un rendez-vous à Agen

Coucou les French learners,

Enfin ! At last! Je suis de retour, I am back!

I am now in Portugal, enjoying a new life and acquiring a new language too: Portuguese. I keep reminding myself that “

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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: 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 crêpes et la motivation

Coucou les French learners,

Bonne fête de la Chandeleur à tous ! Happy Chandeleur to all!

La Chandeleur

La Chandeleur is a special day in France, an opportunity to eat delicious crêpes, miam !

February 2nd is in fact a Catholic holiday when Jesus was presented at the temple in Jerusalem.

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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 : 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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French the natural way: un cadeau de Noël

Coucou les French learners,

C’est déjà la mi-décembre, it is already mid-December! Time to celebrate!

It is time to celebrate Christmas  Un joli cadeau !

When I started to make videos on YouTube, my goal was to help French learners from all over the world to listen and understand comprehensible stories in French.

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