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Fed up of using ‘and’ and ‘but’ all the time? 

Fancy sounding a little more sophisticated and widening your vocabulary just a little bit, and in a few moments? 

It’s easily done with a mini-lesson on how to use “moreover” and synonyms so you can choose which one(s) you want to learn yourself. 

Are you inadvertently reinforcing your English way of pronouncing French? 

Are you reading to yourself in your head with your English accent? It’s ok - it’s what we do! 

So, I am making a series on really short mini-lessons to help you quickly overcome simple pronunciation errors. 

In this ...

How often do you mix up the accented é and è either in writing or when trying to read French? 

If you’re wanting to read more fluently, make the correct sounds in your head when you’re reading, or even say then correctly when reading to other people, but it somehow all gets muddled up . . . then...

So you might get by well enough in French, but there comes a time that you want to start getting a touch more accurate. 

Basically, we want to sound as intelligent as we actually are, rather than people judge us as if we were the age of our French-speaking abilities. 

Of course, it’s harder tha...

Ready to work on your listening comprehension?

Many people have been asking for a practice video to help them with their listening skills.

So, as always to help you learn, pronounce, and remember, I made you ANOTHER mini-lesson!

Here's what you will be focusing on :

• Your listening skills i...

Why should you ditch the chatrooms and start speaking REAL French? 

Did you know that with over a third of people with smartphones sending over 100 messages a day, chat rooms and online areas are becoming increasingly popular for learning French?

Now these are great for getting started and ma...

Fancy some listening practise for the weather in French - past, present and future?

Many people have been asking for a practice video to help them with their listening skills. So, as always to help you learn, pronounce and remember, I made you a mini lesson!

Here's what you will be focusing on ...

How do you say that elusive verb TO ENJOY in French? 

So you look it up and find a whole bunch of confusing ways to say “enjoy”, but not the actual VERB!

That’s because you’re communicating a feeling, and you’re focussing on finding an exact translation.  And guess what - sometimes you just CAN...

You might well have learnt some great French, mastered the past, present and future, maybe more, but enjoying using idiomatic expressions always adds colour and interest to your conversations.

We do it in English, so why not in French? 

Ok - there are so many, but you don’t have to learn them a...

Do you avoid the irregular verb METTRE because it seems so complicated? 

Yet it’s extremely common in many situations.

So, to help you get to grips with it a bit more, I put together a whole bunch of examples for you to choose which one (or ones) you want to adopt in your daily life! 

In this ...

We’ve all said it: “Je cherche pour . . .” and one day someone decides to tell you that you’re repeating yourself! 

We’re all on our learning journey and we always need someone to help us progress with our language learning, our pronunciation and how to use our learning in spontaneous conversati...

Starting up a conversation in French is much easier when you talk about . . . 

THE WEATHER 

FOOD

So in this week’s video, we look at the weather - but in the past tense! I would forgive you for thinking you start with “it was . . .” and therefore . . .”C’était . . .”

But we need to wean you o...