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French the natural way: give yourself a productive French hour!

Coucou les French learners,

Le mois de novembre est là !

“November is beautiful month. But one has to like grey. And the eye has to catch its light.” Gilles Vigneault is a poet from Québec.

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French the natural way: when to start producing French stress-free?

Coucou les French learners,

The best feedback always come from our Dear Members. This week, Angus commented in the Community Chat:

I do think that it is funny that I can understand much more fluently than I can speak,

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La pause café avec Christian Jacomino : la langue n’est pas un code

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L’incroyable histoire d’amour entre le français et l’anglais

D’après un entretien avec Henriette Walter, linguiste française.

Des mots comme radio, télévision ou hôtel sont compris partout. Cela permet une communication superficielle facile.
Cependant, chaque langue possède ses caractéristiques donnant lieu à des comportements spécifiques. Par exemple, un Allemand a moins tendance à couper la parole à son interlocuteur qu’un Français ou un Anglais.

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Les trois langages

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Agen Takeaway #4: Reading

” Reading is breathing and comprehensible texts are oxygen” as Martina Bex wrote in a great article about reading in class.

At #Agen2019, I attended another inspiring session by the amazing about Free Voluntary Reading (Alina also happens to be one of my French online learners ,

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Agen Takeaway #3: Story Listening

As I mentioned in my second takeaway from #Agen2019, Story Listening is the CORE of all my lessons.

WHY?

Because my IB Spanish students have achieved tremendous results in the past two years I have been teaching at Thuringia International School.

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