French the natural way: fluency at any age, 3 benefits of acquiring French
Coucou les French learners,
In response to last week’s newsletter, Debra wrote to me:
I started seriously learning French when I was 58. I’m 68 now. Not “fluent” but conversational. And, yes. I forget things I know but I do that in English too.
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