Learn French in France

French language immersion

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Did you know you could get a 3 month long French language immersion "for free"?
It needed the marriage of my niece to find out… At the small dinner we had afterwards, I spoke to her little sister who started like me: getting a French scholarship because nobody else is taking them and get your [...]

Rocket French: Cheapest of French Online courses

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

In French Phrases : Step 1 of 7 easy steps how to speak French, we talked about downloading or buying French Audio material.
If you want to study French offline, then the easiest way is to buy one of the French Online Courses available.
FrenchMalaysia has been browsing around the French Online courses for years [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Where to study French in France

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Did you know you can study French in Nice?
No, this is not nice like in good-fun-interesting, this is Nice: a place at the Cote d’Azur in the South of France. Still doesn’t ring a bell? What about the film festival in Cannes? Aha, now we got your attention
I have been to the Cote [...]

Study French in the Caribbean

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Look at the map below and what do you think you see?

Well, the red circle in the middle is France and the other red dots on the map is…. also France!
Yes, we are talking about the so called DOM-TOM: French territory overseas. That means if you are in Tahiti, suddenly you need to [...]

Learn French in Mongolia?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Can you learn Malay in Mongolia? According to the French, there is some controversy amongst French submarines, the Malaysian PM and a Mongolian translater…
Can you really learn French in Mongolia? Yes you can!
You can even learn German in Mongolia like reading German signboards in Ulaan Baatar Mongolia:

Learn German in Mongolia
How to learn French [...]

French Language Courses in Normandy France

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Where is Normandy
If you are a grandfather, then you know that Normandy harbors the French coastline where in World War 2 the Americans and Canadians landed and started there last offensive against the Germans.
French Language Courses in Normandy France
But what is even more special about Normandy is that it harbors a Scandinavian minority culture, so [...]

French in Lausanne

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

The first time I heard about Lausanne was when one of my French students told me his motivation to study French is to go and study to become a culinary chef in Lausanne.
I never ever taught about studying French in Switzerland, as the story goes that Swiss people rather stick to themselves and are quite [...]

Study French in Canada

Monday, October 26th, 2009

I always wanted to study French in Canada. Oh well, to be exact I always dream to live in Canada, since people seem to be there much more friendly, funny and open to foreigners than anywhere else on this globe.
So one way to get the feel of Canada would be to study French there! Just [...]

Learn French in Paris

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

If you love to shop, love to go have a coffee and a croissant for breakfast in a typical French cafe and if you on top of that want to learn some French, you can go to the LSI French language school nearby the Louvre and easy to reach with the Metro.
Which ever school you [...]

Learn French in Bordeaux

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Ok, you all know that you can learn French in France, but when it comes to picking a city, where do you go to?
Learn French in France
Learning French abroad in Bordeaux, is just one of the places you can pick. Personally I like it much more that studying French in hectic Paris.
France is world-renowned for [...]

Learn French in France

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

I already listed before 2 options on where to learn French in France before:

Learn French in Paris
Learn French in Bordeaux

Of course there are more places in France where yu can study French, yet I am only 1 person and can only study in a few places in my short but buzy lifespan
Do [...]

Learn French in Brussels

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

I already wrote a few words about why you should learn French in Brussels a few months ago, but I better list some schools where you can learn French as well.
Why learn French in Brussels?
Brussels is both the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium and of the European Commission and the Council of the European [...]

Learn French in Switzerland

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Ecole Suisse de Langues
Ecole Suisse de Languages (ESL)is one of the bigger languages schools in Switzerland. They run language camps in the 3 different soaking areas in Switzerland, hence don’t only teach French but also Italian and German.
For studying French : ESL offers two all year round French schools for adults in Switzerland with a [...]

French in Belgium? Casse-toi!

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Well, seems today I am in a scolding mood Part of this has to do with the latest Wordpress update I did: my French accents all have been crumbled up or messed up or… whatever
So I am now correcting French sentences… thanks to an upgrade.
Anyway, if you still don’t know yet: [...]

Step 3 of 7 easy steps how to speak French

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Step 3: learn 1 Basic French phrase a day
 
Every day you probably spend a lot of time that you could use to study French:
 

sitting on the toilet,  
watching ads on TV,  
stirring your food while cooking,  
waiting for the train,  
lining up at the bank…

 
All this time you can use wisely to study [...]

Step 2 of 7 easy steps how to speak French

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Step 2: Find French Friends!
 
Did you already buy a French CD or download some French audio material? Did you download the Vanessa Paradis song in last post?
 
Listening to French audio is fun, but your French studies become much more fun and meaningful if you start talking to French people.
 
The Internet is great to find French [...]

3 steps how to speak French

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Step 1: download or buy a French course
 
Buy a French textbook or go to our free online French lessons at Basic French Phrases .
 
In case you want to buy a French course: there are many French books, French CD’s and French online courses available, so do a little research to find a French book [...]

Learn French in Belgium

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I already explained why I learn French in Belgium (read my post: why study French in Belgium), so I will now add a few schools in Belgium where you can get some French immersion.
Since I am taking my French course in the northern part of Belgium, I also point out there is a cute [...]

First school day learning French

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Remember how mom always asked when you were a kid: how was your first day at school? Well, my first 18 years I answered to that : great lunch-break!
Seems that people don’t change much overtime, as the second thing we did yesterday was going out for a pick-nick in the grass in the nice surroundings [...]

Why learn French?

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

If you are born in a country like Malaysia you are limited in your opportunities to get good Education.
Education is expensive for all of us, so one way of making sure to get a scholarship is to grab a scholarship that is just waiting to be discovered.
That’s how I got my French scholarship: [...]