Archive for January, 2010

Why study French in Belgium

Friday, January 29th, 2010

I can hear you thinking: why don’t you study French in France? Because I don’t want to be in interpreter, so I can make do with the French spoken in Belgium. The southern part of Belgium is just above France and the people there speak as good French as they do in France.
Yet I [...]

Learn French free

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Yes, it’s possible and even quite easy to learn French free: all you need to do is find a French speaking person and start talking in French.
How I started was teaching a French person English and at the same time he had to teach me French. Like we say: nothing is free, yet no [...]

Learn to speak French software

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

When you buy learn to speak French software, make sure it includes French Flashcards.
Do you ever try learning lists of words by heart?
I did and it never worked. Bright student as I am, I just didn’t manage to get all these Latin words in my mind. let alone could I be bothered as [...]

How to speak French the basics

Monday, January 18th, 2010

If you wonder how to speak French the basics and only the basics: then you should start with following our speak French for free course which is stipulated at our first Learn French page.
The next step is remembering the French words you learned and that’s where the above picture comes in place!
Ok, what is [...]

Learn French fast

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Learn the 5 secrets why my motivated students manage to learn French fast and speak French within 3 months.
Being a French teacher, I perfected these 5 secrets in my French courses. The results are happy students chatting away in French after they leave my first French class!
 
1. Are you motivated to learn French fast?
 
The students [...]

Learn French in La Rochelle

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

All good things come in 3
The first time I heard about La Rochelle, France was -shhhh- watching the U boat scenes in the movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oh yes, I only watch movies for education purposes

La Rochelle France Map
The second time I heard about La Rochelle was when I was eating [...]

French swear words

Monday, January 11th, 2010

It has been quite a while since we posted any French swear words, French insults, French slang and other dirty words in French so… time to change that!
 
We are trying to make a separate learn French site where people from all ages can visit us, where this French swear words page was more for the [...]

Learn English in Japan

Friday, January 8th, 2010

As usual people prefer to learn a language from a native speaker…
I do have to say that I prefer learning a language from a bi-lingual or more lingual teacher. Why?
Because native speakers most of the time don’t have a feel for the difficulties of their language, nor as for the cultural differences revealed in [...]

Learn French in Washington

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

This post is dedicated to Mr. Bush who will be leaving the White house pretty soon and will have enough time under his hands to do what he should have done long time before: to learn French in Washington.
I only say this now and not years ago, because Mr. Bush needs to focus on his [...]

Learn French Fast

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Learn French fast : get yourself a French boyfriend or girlfriend!
Been there, done that, doesn’t work but you get extra benefits like free meals and lots of attention
If you want to learn French fast, a French friend surely is a plus!
Friend as in

I really want to help you learn French [...]

Learn French in France

Friday, January 1st, 2010

When you learn French in France right now, you must have seen the beautiful fireworks in Paris at new years eve.
 
But did you know that the French burn more than just fireworks?
 

 
Eh bien oui, the French burn cars at new years eve as well. Unfortunately, this could have been your car burned by God [...]