French the natural way : trust the process

Coucou les French learners,

I am back from a wonderful weekend in Erlangen, Germany where I got to listen to my idols, Stephen Krashen and Beniko Mason.

They are my heroes in the field of Second Language Acquisition! I got to spend the entire weekend listening to them at the Story Listening workshop,

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French the natural way: carnaval & planning your trip to France

Coucou les French learners,

C’est déjà le mois de février ! It is already the month of February! Il fait froid et il y a de la neige, it is cold and there is some snow, brr !

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French the natural way: a quirky story!

Coucou,

here is your weekly dose of French comprehensible and compelling input to acquire the language naturally.

Have you ever noticed that it is much easier to remember a story you have heard or a movie you have seen than a list of words, verb forms or grammar concepts?

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Mary Glasgow magazines

 

Some time ago I wrote a post about the Mary Glasgow website and how I used its free Spanish articles and audio versions. Last week I received several French sample magazines and the “Bonjour”

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