How to Speak French

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 [...]

French language course

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Are you looking for a French language course? Then first ask yourself why you want to study French:

you are visiting France and need to be able to speak French: speak some basic words in the French language
you want to make a deep French conversation with French people
you want to read French books
you want to [...]

French Love Phrases

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

I was walking through the streets of Kuala Lumpur last evening and a woman stops me asking: do you speak French? Wooaaah, I got a stalker! Ok, I do give French classes in a school nearby, so that probably gave me away
Anyway, she had a French letter from her boyfriend in Algeria and [...]

Famous French Phrases

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

My favorite of the most famous French phrases is: je pense donc je suis, which translates in English to : I think, therefore I am. (said by Descartes)
Why is this my favorite famous French phrase?
This is my favorite famous French phrase not because of it’s intrinsic wisdom, but for what it can tell you about [...]

Learn to speak French

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Did you know that about 1000 years ago the English court was eager to learn to speak French just because it was fancy? Yes, those were the days of the Bonnie Prince from the TV series Kidnapped that was aired long before I was born.
After I was born I was eager myself to learn to [...]

French love phrases

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

I find it quite cute that although this blog’s title is French Swear Words, I get a lot of visitors looking for French love phrases
That’s probably the crowd that needs to Learn French Fast because they got themselves a French boyfriend or girlfriend.
Or they are just like me: engaged in a don’t know [...]

Learn French: English to French translation…

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Always have fun when learning French! It is always difficult to give an exact English to French translation or French to English translation. Therefore we will try to illustrate with cartoons in the French language when it is more or less appropriate to use French swear words.
Funny in French language…

A French dictionary will translate très [...]

Why should you learn how to speak French?

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Why learn how to speak French when “everybody” speaks English?
French (le français, la langue française-the French language-) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish language and Portuguese language. In 1999 the French language was the 11th most spoken language in the world being spoken by about 77 million people (called [...]

Step 4 out of 7 easy steps how to speak French

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Take the yellow pages, look for a French, Moroccan, Algerian, Haitian… restaurant: any restaurant where you can expect French speaking people and a French menu.
 
What can you learn by going to a French restaurant?
 

First of all you will get a typical French menu with courses written in both French and English 
Secondly you will learn [...]

DVD French language instruction

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

If you love to watch TV, then you will love any DVD French language instruction for learning French in your sofa
But to make full use of any French language DVD you have to look at children and how they learn a language:
 

listen,
play and
learn on autopilot!

 
Learn
French now! When you buy these 20 [...]

French Exams around the corner

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

You most likely have noticed that this month, you get less information about how to learn French or which French courses to follow…
The only reason for that is that I am busy preparing for my French and Spanish exams like so:

French course studying verbs
Actually studying French is a bit more serious than just being [...]

French Student makes her teacher proud

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Today I am very happy because one of my French Language students succeeded in her first DELF 1 exam…and…she is only 13 and… I am her one and only teacher
Ok, I am bragging now, but as a freelance teacher I am just happy that it’s not me saying: "your daughter is making enormous [...]