“You offer a solution to their frustrations and a level of insight that virtually no other teacher can match. You are the ultimate bridge for them.“
Result-oriented French classes for adults
What do we do at OuiCommunicate?
I coach French learners online through video calls. My students are in America, the UK, France, and other parts of Europe. I offer personalized coaching, structured resources and a white glove service.
What distinguishes OuiCommunicate?
OuiCommunicate distinguishes itself from similar businesses by our ability to master English and French as a native. Instead of “just” being a native of French, we guarantee native-level English also. It allows us to bridge English and French like few teachers can.
How do the classes work?
Students log into this website that acts as their 24/7 French class. They find instructional videos that are paired with worksheets on the relevant topics of French. They book a class when they are ready to see their tutor.
What is the teaching angle?
I encourage autonomy and independence while acting as a coach for the French language. But instead of walking you through a lesson I advise, design your learning plan and assess your understanding. The focus is on the student at all times.
Left: OuiCommunicate officially started in 2018 in England. From a modest, 2-page website it grew until its final form today.
The initial impulse of creating a French school has always been the knowledge that I could offer bilingual classes that had superior value.
A native knowledge of French and English combined with the proper university degrees and a desire to distinguish myself prompted me to start giving classes.
And it grew and grew…
A method that leaves the norm behind
The method I propose
I propose the same method that earned me a Masters in German: Reasoning and Understanding. It is the same approach to languages with which I taught myself the foundations of German in 2 months. (A2 level)
In my classes, you are the Hero. You don’t sit back while a teacher “teaches” you. These methods are neither time nor cost effective. They are not result-driven.
We are not other schools
Most schools sell you their time. OuiCommunicate sells you pure skill. We do not sell French by the hour. We propose to you a starting point and an end point. When you know the French program, you will know all the French you are likely to ever need.
The student as an Actor
I’ve worked for enough language schools to recognize a broken system. The French class becomes an appointment among many. “Sorry Chris, I’ve been too busy to revise. What shall we do today?” This question is impossible here. It is the student who tells the tutor what we are revising today. When they feel ready.
Skills, not phrases
In my French program you will not learn how to say “One coffee please” because it gets you nowhere in the long run. Instead, I want to understand how that sentence is made. You will look at the Big skills and learn how the mechanics of French hold the language together. Exactly as I did for German.
Bilingual tutoring
At OuiCommunicate, you have the rare opportunity to learn under a teacher who knows British and American cultures as much as the French culture. We are talking about a seamless transition between languages and culture that cannot be matched nor taught in any university in the world.
I act as a bridge between languages by teaching under a bilingual angle. This means a perfect command of English and French. It’s the ability to think in English like you and like a French person.
My students have English as a first language, which defines them as speakers. By knowing your starting point in the slightest detail, I can target your challenges like no other French tutor.
About our classes - explained by the owner
Hear Chris explain why we do what we do and how we do it !
A premium offer for premium results
A starting point and an end point
The French classes I offer are undoubtedly Premium. They are designed for the learner who wishes to get French done and is ready to face the truth that the shortcuts don’t work. It necessitates that the learner accept the role of Hero of their own French story.
We’re one of the only programs where the finishing line is in sight. Complete the course and know French. There will be little more we can teach you. Yes, there will always be a new word of vocabulary or a new expression, but you will have learned the vast majority of the French that matters.
Clarity of vision
We are able to see clearly into French for several reasons. First, there were 5 grueling years at university to achieve a Masters in Germanic Philology and Linguistics. These are the studies you do to develop faculties of reasoning about language.
Next, there was my own success in German at university. There was also the building of this website for which I combed through the whole French language and made it accessible to the speaker of English. Lastly, there is my perfect bilingualism.
Teaching English and teaching French
Your French teacher at OuiCommunicate is not only a French teacher – he also teaches English as a first and a second language. The full spectrum.
the French teachers that are usually available do not know your half of the story. But we do. Not only in a native way, but on a technical level also.
Your teacher Chris is qualified to teach English in American high schools to native speakers. he also hold the Qualified Teacher Status for the UK, where he can do the same. And he is also ESL-qualified to teach English as a second language.
We are always moving forward
The angle of these classes implies a constant moving forward. They are not designed to entertain but rather to make of you a speaker of French. Not “some” French or “the occasional” French. We mean all the French that matters. We see it as a skill that you can pick up here.
After a class, you will be moving towards the next skill and another after that. Your tutor will design an achievable learning plan which you learn in your own time. When you feel ready, you book a “meetup”.
We maximize each class
Instead of sitting through a 60 min or 120 min class of which you remember only a fraction, we now reverse the logic. The student dedicates time to learning certain French skills as the Hero of their own story.
Your 20 minute French class now turns into a 300 minute class in terms of its contents. You get much more worth per minute and at a much lesser cost.
Your expert French tutor will need no more than a few targeted questions to know if you have understood the skills of your personal program.
Why 20 minutes? It’s the limit that a human can concentrate in one go.
How will I know I'm ready?
Step 1: You complete your exercises and use the instructional video for each topic
Example: Lesson on the Plural
Step 2: Use our "self-assessment" videos to make quite sure you've learned well
Example: Self-assessment on the Plural
Step 3: you've done the worksheet, watched the video, cleared the self-assessment, now meetup with your tutor
If you have any doubt or question, there's unlimited email support too.
That's a premium offer for Premium results.
What do the 20-min classes entail?
When I meet you for a 20 min class, I won’t be giving you a score. The goal is not even perfection either. I will ask you targeted questions to asess your understanding of each topic.
The expert teacher doesn’t need more than a snippet to evaluate French knowledge.
Most times, it is the students who dazzle me with their science, It is a beautiful thing to witness a student teach me about all they’ve learned!
What if I get the answers wrong?
No, we don’t fail you
Assessments are not tests and we’re not here to give you a score. It’s a way for the teacher to gauge understanding – not memory skills like a parrot.
Self-assessments also imply that you will be telling your own self whether you know a topic well or not. Or more precisely, wteher you understand it or not.
We don’t expect you to score 100% on the assessment on the Plural for example. But rather whether you know how it works in French and what to look out for.
Defining knowledge
Actively knowing something is one form of knowledge. Knowing wht we DON’T know is a second form of knowledge – arguably much wiser.
Even if you don’t get all the answers right, at least you will have knowledge of the depth of French. You will know what you don’t yet know. This is also why we offer full freedom of navigation on this platform, precisely to offer the opportunity of looking towards the finishing line. At OuiCommunicate, we pursue the BIG knowledge, not the small one.
Discover our learning plans:
Plan 1: Beginners / Plan 2: Advanced (conversational)
"Start Me Off": Hands-on close French tutoring for novices
Book a Guided Tour
Interested but not ready to commit? You can book a Guided Tour now.
We will meet on this website. Top of the page you will see CLASS. When you have the password, you will be able to log into our virtual class.
And even before that, we are happy to phone you to learn about your current level of French.
Phone or add us on Whatsapp: +1 860-339-6480
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