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Oops - are you pronouncing your plurals wrongly? 

Un animal - Deux animaux

That’s how it goes! 

A really quick mini-lesson to help you enjoy being just a little bit more French today.

Make your quick discovery and learn: 

•  A group of common words where -AL goes to -AUX
•  How to pronounce t...

“Just to” see if you fancy squeezing in a nice new expression to your French head. . . 

I present you . . . “Histoire de . . .” 

“Just to” . . . 

This is a really quick mini-lesson to help you enjoy being just a little bit more French today, instead of saying “juste pour”.

Don’t make schoolda...

Learning should be fun, and this week, after working in a lesson with French people trying to sound English, we realised it works both ways.  With side-splitting fun we repositioned out mouth, our tongue and even the airflow in our throat. 

Through all the laughter we cracked it with two fun phr...

This single word really does have the key to your native-sounding pronunciation: 

Try saying this in your ENGLISH voice: Television, first in your head then out loud.  Then the same in French. Télévision.

In this mini-lesson we swiftly explore how to shift your internal and external pronunciati...

We all make mistakes . . . me more than any, it seems at times. 

With the verb PASSER I DENIED for YEARS the whole possibility of it being one of the verbs of Être in the perfect tense.

Like many, my teacher told me a way to remember the Être verbs with DR.MRS.VANDERTRAMP and it only has one le...

Can you say this correctly in French?  COMPTER

Did you pronounce that P? If you want to sound like a native and have some practice with that challenging letter P then check out this mini-lesson and discover . . . 

• How to say those words with a silent P

• Practice of the sounds with explana...

“Preceding direct object”

Does this leave you wondering what you missed in life? Where you went wrong with French grammar?

Don’t worry - you could argue it’s not the most important thing in the French language. 

But if you want to sound French, this is a common detail that will help, made very...

Did you realise there are actually 4 ways of pronouncing the 2 letters EM in French?

If you’ve got into a habit of pronouncing only the English way, even when you’re speaking in French then this mini-lesson is just right for you!

Head in and discover:

• 4 ways to pronounce EM in French like a ...

Love this sound . . . or hate it? 

‘EUR’ 

 In my conversation classes, I hear people feeling that 'eur' isa hard sound to make.

So, here’s a mini-lesson on how you can say it right every time.

In this mini-lesson, you’ll discover:

• How to pronounce “eur”

• Step-by-step demonstration

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If trying to remember all the right words in conversation fills you with dread - this is for you! Check out this statement: “ You have the capability, but you just lack the confidence.”

I think I cracked it! For us ALL!

I have repeatedly referred to “Brain freeze” but I just HAD to look into wh...

Time and time again, ‘ouille’ trips me up when I want to pronounce it. Not only that, but I sometimes hear two ways of saying it. 

So I have kept this mini-lesson strictly simple, unpicking how you can say it right every time. Plus, the line up to practise with is a great challenge for you!

We ...

New to you this word “NEW”?

As learners, we can all be forgiven for wondering which version of NEW in French we should choose.  It all seems so complicated at first. 

So let’s enjoy this simple mini-lesson when I straighten it all out in simple terms.  

•  What the difference is between ‘nouve...