About our French School
Our French school proposes individualized bilingual French classes for the discerning 40+ learner.
In an exclusive, service-led atmosphere, we put at your disposal exceptional language skills for a permier learning experience.
Hi, my name’s Chris the owner of this school and the creator of all the learning content.
For more info about my journey and my qualifications, please click here:
Who we are and what we do
Personal service for all
If you are from a certain generation, you remember customer service before business became automated by artificial intelligence. It is the type of service that many of us still enjoy and desire. OuiCommunicate proposes the old-fashioned customer experience in which individuals are valued and cared for in a “yes we can” 5-star luxury atmosphere. Our students phone us up to tell us about their learning, we respond to emails and we make ourselves available to all.
Traditional learning
Next is the format of our classes and our learning. We designed our French course according to a certain way of learning which our generation experienced in school and that speaks to our age group. The overall tone of the course is one that resonates with mature learners who want structure and clarity. Our course values rationality an simplicity: we focus on the more important skills of French, the “mechanical” parts that hold the language together.
Quality and innovation
Our learners are from all walks of life but value quality and substance as a shared trait. OuiCommunicate has turned away from the traditional role of the teacher who too often sell you time instead of skill. Mass-marketed French courses and classroom teaching have in common that you pay for more time than you get back in skill. With us, you will know who created the course, who teaches it and why they want to teach it. Excellence has a name and a face.
Bilingual teaching and Linguistics
We offer you the opportunity of leaving behind the standard one-sided French course in favour of Bilingualism. Scarce are the teachers who have reached perfect linguistic and cultural bilingualism in English and French and who have the ability to put it to the service of their students. Our academic background in Linguistics further acts as a tool for clarity and structure. We propose you be rid of clutter-based courses and Franco-centered teaching by French natives.
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How to use our resources:
In 5 easy steps, each student has their own study plan. Your teacher will recommend specific parts of our French program, which you then complete in your own time. When you feel ready, meet up again for an evaluation of your skills.
Book a consultation
You can book a French class 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.
A little story from the owner...
I’m the holder of a Masters in German linguistics and Literature and I will make the claim that I will never forget my German. That’s because my learning was based on understanding and reasoning. I can always fall back on it and self-correct.
I learned it this way because I was 35 by the time I heard my first word of German. My college did not properly explain that there weren’t actual classes to get us familiar with the language. We went straight to the literature.
At one point, I had 2 months over the Summer to explain German to myself before I failed my year. This is when I knew I had to find structure.
When I eventually spoke it at the oral exams, I discovered that practice didn’t matter. Speaking is not the problem. The real task is knowing how the language functions. I saw that speaking is not the tool by which we learn.
Everything you believe about French, I probably believed about German. The main concern being “I have no one to speak to!” I tried all manner of conversation partners which turned out to be a waste of time. The real need was to learn skills, not to engage in random conversations.
During our French classes, we will make sure that you know the foundational principles of French. Just as I did with German. There will be no clutter and we will go straight to the essentials. We will build a solid tree trunk on which the branches can hold.
One last thing. my German isn’t that great unfortunately. Not for lack of study but because I never found that magical teacher who was a native of English and of German. I never had that person who understood my world and theirs equally well. But this, I can do for you in French. I know your world of Engish and I know the French world as a native of two languages.
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