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In my last post, I gave you information about the technique for speaking French: Keep your tongue flat and emphasize vowels rather than consonants.   Now let’s look at the Fabulous French Five – the main vowels used when speaking French.   1) The French “e” Say the English word “her”, using the French techniqueRead more

When attempting to learn French, it is important that you establish links between your mother tongue, such as English, and French, if you hope to become good at speaking your second language. Each language has its own technique.Try this:Say the word “hard” in English.What did you do to produce that sound?There are a few stepsRead more

Be willing to take risks and make mistakes.  That’s part of the secret to learning to speak French like a pro. The other secret is to adopt the techniques for super accelerated learning.There are some critical steps needed for this. Repetition:Students learning a second language such as French have been told that repetition is anRead more

In the book, “How to think like Leonardo da Vinci”, the author states:“Like Leonardo, you can learn a new language at any age.”We all know that babies are the best learners.  Their openness, energy, and playfulness allow them to learn languages with ease. A baby raised in a home where three languages are spoken willRead more

The ideal student wishing to learn French should fit the following description:1.  The student WANTS to learn French.This may seem obvious to most, but in my experience, it is not always true.  Some people are forced to take language training because of their work, others feel it is an obligation for other reasons.Learning a languageRead more

My experience in teaching French has demonstrated that students who have taken French for a long period of time and who are not able to speak it effortlessly or are afraid to speak, can usually trace the reason to the following:Research studies in memory retention show that adult learners retain only 20% of what theyRead more

The Rebel French Program is very simple. It is divided into lessons which deal with various aspects of the language.I like simplicity!K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, s’il vous plaît?I would ask you not to proceed to the next lesson until you have completely mastered the current one on the instinctive level. Some lessons will be easierRead more

Most people think that in order to speak fluent French, you need to spend hours and hours studying, learning tons of vocabulary, conjugating hundreds of French Verbs…I thought so too, because this is the commonly used method in most schools and training centres everywhere. But after graduating from university and starting to teach French, IRead more

Imagine what could happen if you were to learn one new element of French each day and put it into practice, even if it were for just a few minutes a day. By the end of the year, you would have mastered 365 new elements of the language! That may not seem like much butRead more

In my experience, the answer is YES!Traditional methods for learning French do not work!Students get frustrated because they do not progress quickly enough, and teachers get discouraged  because their students are frustrated.I take a different approach to teaching French.  I want my students to succeed from Day 1 so I start by building a firmRead more