Adult Education French Classes
My name is Chris and I teach at OuiCommunicate, a school that I started in 2018. We specialize in teaching French to adults.
My own experience with adult education began when I was 34 as I went back to college (uni) for a Masters degree. In the process, I also learned German. Those 6 years got me intimately acquainted with the challenges of learning at a later age.
I had to invent a system of learning that would work for an adult who had no technique at all in order to pass my exams. The solution I found was structure and clarity. This approach to learning is exactly what you will find in our French classes.
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Our French classes explained
OuiCommunicate is where tradition meets technology. There is a use of the internet to be able to learn at any time and propose a never-ending French class.
But there is the traditional side that can be seen in our rational and structured approach to French.
We want our students to feel comfortable and to recognize a method that is already familiar to them.
When you sign up, you will be guided through the French language by your teacher. He will recommend exercises and videos to watch. You only book a class when you feel comfortable to discuss your latest progress.
We offer personal coaching, service and an atmosphere in which you matter as an individual. If you are able to use pen and paper, and log into this website you can learn French with us!
Let me tell you a little story...
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.
See the lady in this video? She started from zero, did the exercises on the website and learned French.
She’s still doing French with us today in 2025 and we read classic French literature together in class.
With us, she found the necessary structure and a home to learn French.
Book a free class !
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.
