French the natural way: get fast spoken French

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Le soleil brille, c’est l’été ! The sun is shining, it is summer!

“ We want a place in the sun (French expression meaning to succeed, to get ahead) – it’s normal my son; so make sun instead of looking to make a place.”

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French the natural way: watch TV series

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My Dad shared with me this interesting article about Tomi Mester, who is a data analyst and researcher who wants to learn Swedish because he moved to Sweden six months ago. I thought this article was interesting because Tomi mentions that he watched two popular TV shows in Swedish with Swedish subtitles.

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French the natural way: how to find comprehensible input?

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I am so lucky indeed to be teaching amazing learners from all over the world! Check out my website’s map to find out where my learners come from.

My French learners are amazing because they understand the power of getting input consistently and over time.

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Creating a new TV program in Spanish

With my current grade 8, we culminated our unit about television with a creative project: to create a new TV program and present it to possible producers!

Before working on the project, we looked at different kind of TV programs in Spain and in South America which lead to different activities and which also provided with a lot of comprehensible input.

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