French Abroad and at Home: Not a Dress Rehearsal, Real Dialogues for Real Life.
Let us help you succeed by creating the time, space and connections to make French come alive in your home.
No mumbling to your phone, no gimmicks, just real dialogs for real-life growth.
Wishing your French was as beautiful as it once was?
You can do it!
Give us one month and ten minutes a day.
Let us take you from hesitant to Conversant in French in 30 days.
Or you are just beginning your exhilarating journey to French learning.
We will hold your hand,
help you design this time into your life
and give you baby steps:
des petits pas.
Build skills and confidence as you speak to each other:
French: a Debut
Oui is the answer.
Make speaking in French a reality chez vous. The most sure-fire way to embody and implement a language:
two humans, chatting to each other about things that matter.
Be ready to enjoy the delights of France, Montreal or La Cote d'Ivoire;
Anywhere the food is fabulous and the language is French!
French Dreams Come True Here
Wishing you were somewhere you are not?
Soaking up art in Nice?
Awestruck in the cathedrals of France?
On your way to join friends waiting for you in the café down the road in Togo?
Learn now and be ready to see the world.
Start speaking French
Create a French ambiance
French a Conversation is an exchange of lanugage
-made for real life with a real person
-If there is a reason to speak, there is a phrase in French for it.
-Start small and doable in ten minutes a day or less.
-Start at home with the every day.
-Or get ready to travel: everything you could need while visiting or working in a francophone country
-Un p'tit café? (a magical phrase that will get you into all settings)
Meet your teachers:
Angela, an accomplished French court interpreter, excels at imparting her favorite second language to all seekers. She is CONVINCED you will love learning or reigniting your French with her.
She lived in France for half of her adult life, pursuing wave-watching on the Atlantic shore, learning to cook and greatly enjoying life the French way.
She holds a master's degree in French/English translation from the Université de Bordeaux.
She lives with her husband, Thierry and their five fantastic children, in two languages and between two continents.
Thierry: who is passionate about sharing his Gallic culture and language.
Although he moved across the big pond to better see life from an American perspective (for his wife and children) and ended up remaining, he is and always will be the French guy. He knows what it takes to learn a language; the nuances, the parts that never do make it into a textbook.
He lends his native French competence and a great tolerance for all the ways one can mispronounce his name and other French words.
Join us, and bring a joyous French vibe to your house.
The two of us met when we were teenagers and we each spoke approximately one and a quarter languages.
We had a big dream; one family, two cultures, two languages and as much of the world as we could see.
That dream has come true and we can help you make yours do the same.
We give you everything you need, from the instant you awaken: to start speaking in French with the one you are with. This includes an extraordinary value package of
VISUAL AND AUDIO lesson format
TRANSCRIPTS (to print and display)
AUDIO FILES (to download and listen to wherever your day takes you)
And the extraordinary extra step of monthly calls to ask your questions and get personal help: all included!
I had fun doing this class. As a beginner, working on pronunciation was a challenge, but the audio, visual and written all work together to make it easy. The dialogs reflect what happens in my day. It is easy to find spots to use them throughout the day with my husband. The video calls gave me a chance to practice, to get the sounds to be French, to do it over, if I wanted to talk and get advice. This is unlike every other time I tried to learn French, with a cassette or a book or a program online.
Mary Rand
J'ai apprécié ce course! My friend and I committed to calling each other each day to go over the dialogue and the vocabulary on the resource page. We had fun swapping roles, dramatizing the dialogue, and discussing how we might incorporate the phrases in future conversations. We are looking forward to more adventures in conversing en français. Merci beaucoup!
Elizabeth Russell
I had a blast being a part of it... it became a focal point for my week, which was really nice. My speaking partner was sweet and funny and a great guy. We were well-matched in our levels of French and willingness to make mistakes with each other. We may try having future conversations, maybe every few weeks, to keep being able to practice. I was nervous about it all, but Angela and Thierry made it easy and interesting.
Theresa Alberti writer and creator at: http://penandmoon.com/
Remember the one murmuring romantic silliness into your ear in French, sitting at the café?
Warm up your days with sweet French nothings
Good morning sweetheart.
Sleep tight my dearest.
French Greetings and Terms of Endearment
A Free Course to reawaken your French ears and vocal cords.
Ignite a little bit of romantic today...or just tell your kids and cat how adorable they are.
- Were you too a product of the sit-and-try-to-learn a language method ? Mad grammar skills but holding a conversation...? Way beyond our grasp.
CAN YOU TOO SAY?
"The apple is not a man."
……….but not:
"Hey, turn on the light, I dropped a needle."
Change that all: Say what you say each day, but say it in French!