Sterrebeek French classes from Home!
Hi, I'm Chris. Head teacher at OuiCommunicate.
We're home to speakers of English who wish for a step up from traditional French classes by means of bilingual learning.
Our flexible approach to booking, as well as a "no class" learning method ensures higher results and considerable time saving.
I hope you enjoy your visit here and that I'll soon meet you for some French!
If your French teacher doesn't quite "get" you
If you need flexible bookings
Try an English-to-French bilingual school
We can make your life easier!
Who are we?
How does it work?
About our classes
Thanks to the Internet, there is no more need to be present in the same room to conduct a successful language class. There are actually many reasons why in-person classes are less effective, slower and quickly lead to becoming “hobby-classes”.
Probably not the best approach if you want to learn French with intent.
OuiCommunicate is a coursework-based language school. We have the French language available for you on our website in the form of worksheets, videos and quizzes.
You only pay for the 20-minute meetups with your teacher, in which we assess your understanding of specific parts of French.
Speaking French will gradually be integrated as you develop better tools. French will be taught to you as a speaker of English, with full understanding of your background.
As a result, you can expect to build strong foundations in French to become a confident speaker. You will have all the tools to grow and develop as an independent speaker of French.
A solution to an expat's problem
Are you looking to integrate better in the Belgian landscape? Have you been living in Belgium for a number of years and starting to think it may be time to learn one of the National languages?
Easier said that done. It isn’t always so simple to “boldly step forward” and sign up for classes as an expat. For a start, the teaching methods might seem a bit “foreign” to one who was schooled in the UK or US.
And what if the teacher only has a basic understanding of English? Could they even possibly know what it feels like to have English as a mother tongue and to approach French?
What if everyone else in the class is more advanced? What if they have a language that is closer to French and that allows them to speak without an accent?
Even worse…what if no one had any clue about HP sauce, Bisto, Guy Fawkes, Thanksgiving, mac ‘n cheese and all the rest??? Perish the thought!
These fears are very natural and understandable. You’re in a foreign country and you are stepping into a field you don’t know much about: language learning.
But what if there was a kind teacher who had “walked that walk” long before you did? What if this same teacher grew up right next door to Everberg in Overijse as the son of an expat Mum from the UK and a Belgian father?
What if this British/Belgian teacher left Belgium, lived in the UK for several years, married an American lady and had relocated in the US?
And best of all: what if this teacher had founded a language school called OuiCommunicate that specifically teaches French to learners who have English as a first language?
It would almost seem that the stars had aligned to make any expat’s journey into French as easy as it could ever be. But we’ll let you be the judge of that!
Become our next "success story"!
The lady in this video is originally from NY and wished for us to help prepare her move to France.
Today, she is fluent and happily lives in France where she meets new people and uses French daily.
The “secret” to her success is nothing more than what we offer you: the same learning material and the same approach.
But don’t take our word for it: read the review she wrote for our Google Business page!
Book a free Q&A!
No preparation needed
Wish to know more? Phone Chris now or send a Whatsapp message to +1 860-339-6480.
You can book a trial class with no preparation through the booking calendar.
No French skills needed!
Classes are on Skype for reasons of convenience.
Find us on Skype at:
live:reulandchristopher
A word about Sterrebeek...
In the Belgian expat community, Sterrebeek is of course home to the Brussels American School and not too far from the BSB in Tervuren. Many expat families settle in or around Zaventem for the close proximity with Brussels just a few kilometers away.
In Belgium, there are many villages ending in “beek” which designates a stream or brook. In this case, Sterrebeek would translate to “stream of stars” or “starry brook”. Other examples include Dilbeek, Bollebeek or Meerbeke.
It’s also one of those typical communes of Belgium in which you are expected to speak Dutch one minute and French 5 minutes later when you drive into Brussels. “Wait, isn’t it the same country?” Things are not so simple and the concept of a unified country has been challenged for many years in Belgium.
To help their transition, the expat residents of Sterrebeek and Zaventem have on their doorstep some excellent language schools. Some of which have a proven track record and many years in business.
Where we come into the picture is by offering help that is slightly more expat-oriented and targeted.
In terms of size firstly, we consider that the bigger the school the harder it is to monitor. Quality control becomes a challenge. Especially if each dept. functions in a different language! We prefer smaller businesses that are experts at just one thing. We prefer our pizza not to come from a restaurant that doubles a chip shop. (even if they are Belgian chips!)
We would also like our language classes to come from a teacher who knows the expat experience from the inside. If Bob’s native language is different from Suzy’s, both will have different needs and advantages. The quality of their learning largely depends on their respective background. One size (or class) does not fit all.
Being the son of a British expat myself, I saw that there is always a “door before the door” that is caused by the very fact of being an expat. It is not so easy to just push open the door of a Belgian language school. OuiCommunicate set up to be that first door onto the francophone world by means of specially-designed French classes.
Since we are as much British as we are Belgian we hope to offer help that is closer to you on a cultural level. It’s intimate, it’s English-spoken and its’ made for expats.
I hope to meet you soon! Enjoy Belgium, Chris.
