French the natural way: 3 idées pour profiter du printemps

Coucou les French learners,

C’est le printemps, spring is here!

As I write this newsletter on Good Friday, Vendredi Saint, I thought I would share with you a presentation I gave today to my wonderful beginner’s class with Express Fluency.

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French the natural way: 3 idées pour profiter de l’automne

Coucou les French learners,

C’est l’automne, fall is here!

Les berges de la Seine en automne, c’est beau !

Here is a little poem written by Isabelle Jaccard entitled Feuilles d’automne (you can listen to it here):

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French the natural way: 4 steps to read French books

Coucou les French learners,

The other day, I was listening to the French radio and I learned that the word livre, book comes from the Latin word liber which means free. 

When you read a book, you learn something new,

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French the natural way: how to access input?

Coucou les French learners,

I have just finished reading this fascinating article by Steve Kaufmann on how learning a new language is a subconscious process. Basically, the author explains how he learned Romanian by first reading a lot about Romania in Romanian! He says: “

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French the natural way: Read!

“The path of pleasure is the only path. The path of pain does not work in language acquisition.” Stephen Krashen.

How is the May Challenge going?

One of my learners loves to read and she wants to read interesting books in French.

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