Avoid Deportation from France and Learn French!
Our French school leads the industry in bilingual French classes for 40+ learners.
Enjoy a method that speaks to your learning background and adapts to your schedule!
See the lady in this video? She started from zero, did the exercises on the website and learned French.
She lives in France now and easily has B2/C1 level.
Follow our guidance and do this too!
Hi, my name’s Chris – you might recognize me from Youtube!
For more info about myself and my qualifications, please click here:
How do our classes work?
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.
The solution we offer
The news dropped in 2024: learn French to satisfy the official level requirements or risk getting deported from France.
Whatever political motive lies behind this decision, governments do not have a good track record of legislating language use. We can be very sure that the French government will not put in place a workable solution to learn French. There aren’t enough teachers and besides…France suffers from a problem of doing things in a “franco-French way”.
In clear terms, the French resources they will put at your disposal likely won’t work for you if you speak English as a native. Their resources will be designed following a French point of view. And this is where we come in.
On this website, you will find all necessary resources to build up a solid level of French. Each exercise is explained following an English point of view.
Once you have the necessary knowledge of general French, you can then turn your attention towards studying for a specific French test. With our resources, we can easily bring you to level B1/B2 by focusing only on the crucial parts of the French language.
In French language teaching, their notions are usually embedded in a vocabulary that is too specific and not suited to your level. This type of French teaching “from France” forgets to see the language through the eyes of a beginner and a foreigner. This is the reason that the classes in France seem so challenging.
A language test is not a level !
In the confusion of it all, it should be understood that language levels and language tests are two different things entirely. Naturally, the two are related but studying for an official test has more to do with ticking boxes on the examiner’s score sheet.
We believe that going straight to studying for a test is the hardest route. Coming equipped with “general” French makes the passing of the test easier if you proceed in this order. Learn general first and specific “test French” later.
Especially if you are aware that you have “incomplete” French and that you don’t know all the tenses or parts of speech, it may be the more strategic decision to ease into the test by learning these first. Learn how the trunk of the tree holds together first.
The language tests that France proposes have been reported to be hard even for native speakers (especially the test for French citizenship) With our resources, we offer a more gentle way to get to grips with French before facing the various tests.
What makes sense to a speaker of English?
A big distinguishing factor of our school is bilingualism. Your teacher Chris is a genuine native speaker of both French and English.
Each of our exercises was designed by asking the question “what would make sense to a speaker of English?” It makes your road easier because the information is presented by taking into account your identity.
A strong factor in the failure of our students’ previous experience with French was the lack of bilingualism. There is no reason for a speaker of English to learn French following a method designed by a francophone person.
From one native speaker of English to another, we will bring you clarity of understanding that you have been wishing for.
Click on our Learning Plans to discover our resources:
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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.
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.
Two videos for an in-depth understanding:
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