French the natural way: détends-toi, ça va bien se passer !

Coucou les French learners,

C’est le début de la semaine, it is the start of the week and to start off on the right foot, pour commencer du bon pied, RELAX!

The Affective Filter

Noam Chomsky,

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French the natural way : trust the process

Coucou les French learners,

I am back from a wonderful weekend in Erlangen, Germany where I got to listen to my idols, Stephen Krashen and Beniko Mason.

They are my heroes in the field of Second Language Acquisition! I got to spend the entire weekend listening to them at the Story Listening workshop,

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French the natural way: youpi, c’est le printemps !

Coucou les French learners,

There is une vague de chaleur, a heatwave going on here, in Europe and we are enjoying the beautiful weather!

Le printemps, spring is really blossoming. It is beautiful out here! Actually, Spring and the blossoming nature is a bit like language acquisition.

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French the natural way: la Bretagne

Coucou les French learners,

I am back from France where I got to eat delicious food and spend quality time with family!

As you already know, I was in the West of France, in a beautiful region called la Bretagne. Check out my Instagram account to see all the pictures.

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French the natural way: les fleurs

Coucou les French learners,

As I am leaving for France tomorrow, I am sending out the newsletter a bit earlier.

Le printemps arrive ! Spring is coming!

Pas vraiment ! Not really though! It has been a long and hard winter here in Europe.

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French the natural way: joyeux anniversaire !

Coucou les French learners,

Quelle semaine ! What a week!

Input alone is sufficient

My lovely grade 12 IB Spanish learners passed their oral examinations on Thursday. Instead of going through long lists of vocabulary related to the topics they had to talk about,

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French the natural way: read & cook

Coucou les French learners,

It’s been freezing cold this week, il a fait un froid glacial !

Read a good book

So it is the perfect time to be reading a good book by the fire, au coin du feu.

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