“Put It Away”: Freshened Wits for Your French Journey

Dear French Story Listeners,

Have you ever noticed that around the fifteen-minute mark of anything — a lesson, a podcast, a task you’re not thrilled about — your mind quietly starts to wander?

You’re not doing it wrong. Your brain is just doing what brains do.

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Meeting in a few hours! + a lovely French expression 🍂

To our circle of French Story Listeners,

We’re meeting again in a few hours to continue reading and editing Barry’s brand-new book together!

📅 Today’s Details

Today, Friday, September 18th
🕓 4pm UK / 5pm France / 11am EDT / 8am PDT

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Telling It Back: A Gentle Way Into French

Dear French Story Listeners,

Think about the last time you told someone about a movie you loved.

You didn’t recite it word for word. You told it, in your own way, and in doing so, you understood it a little more deeply. You made it yours.

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What a first session! + Chapter 2 next Friday, and something special 🍂

To our circle of French Story Listeners,

What a beautiful first session of Le Cercle de Bruno! 💕

There was so much laughter, so many wonderful tangents, and the kind of real, unpolished French conversation that reminds us why we started this in the first place.

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Why we start with the body, not the book

Dear French Story Listeners,

It’s la rentrée, that particular feeling in the air when September asks us, gently, what we’d like to begin again.

Maybe it’s French, for you. Maybe it’s been a while, or maybe you’ve never quite started at all.

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La rentrée is here 🍂 + join our new Friday Story Circle

To our circle of French Story Listeners,

September has quietly arrived, and with it, la rentrée, that gentle, collective exhale of settling back into rhythm after summer’s looser days.

There’s something lovely about this time of year: notebooks are new, the light is shifting,

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Narration Isn’t a Test, it’s a Relationship

To our circle of French Story Listeners,

There is a quiet truth at the heart of narration that is easy to miss when we are focused on vocabulary lists and grammar rules.

Narration is, first and foremost, a relationship-building practice.

When we use it as a way to acquire French,

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