Dear French Story Listeners,
Before you read on, take a breath with me. Shoulders down. A cup of coffee or tea nearby, if you have one. ☕
This week I want to remind you that you don’t learn French by pushing.
You learn it by showing up gently,
Dear French Story Listeners,
Let’s begin with one small French word, un soupçon.
It means a suspicion, that little feeling that something isn’t quite what it seems.
It also means a tiny bit, as in un soupçon de sel (a pinch of salt).
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,
To our circle of French Story Listeners,
Something wonderful arrived in our Telegram group this week!
Nadya shared the most delightful photograph of her handmade crochet cats, all in shades of violet and lavender, settled cosily among a little stack of French books.
Dear French Story Listeners,
Let me ask you something.
Have you ever walked into a room and completely forgotten why you went in? Set your glasses down and spent ten minutes looking for them?
These little moments can feel alarming, but they are in fact completely normal,
To our circle of French Story Listeners,
This week, Karel, one of our dearest community members, shared something on Telegram that made me smile from the inside out.
Early one morning, he received an urgent call from a close friend. His friend’s son, an agronomy student on internship in France,
Dear French Story Listeners,
There’s a little secret hiding inside the French language, and once you see it, you’ll never think about learning the same way again.
The French word for “to learn” is apprendre. The French word for “to understand” is comprendre.