French the natural way: Why I believe in stories for acquiring French

Coucou les French learners,

As some of you may know, I’ve been acquiring Chinese recently. Luckily now, there’s an abundance of comprehensible input available on YouTube, and I’ve even joined LazyChinese.com for her great video content.

However, I’ve noticed that most of these resources focus on conversational topics like food or travel.

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Pourquoi les enfants ont besoin d’histoires ?

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French the natural way: honor where you’re at

Coucou les French learners,

The title of today’s newsletter does not come from me. It comes from my favourite online yoga teacher, Adriene Mishler. Two weeks ago, I started the 31 days Yoga Revolution to get ready for Christmas and the 3rd day practice was Honor:

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French the natural way: one story a day

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Comment allez-vous ? How are you doing?

The weather is getting much colder where I live and I feel like staying at home, doing yoga and listening to stories!

It is freezing, it’s not wrong.

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French the natural way: les fables

Coucou les French learners,

Are you feeling overwhelmed with French?

Many of my learners want to travel to France and/ or be ready for a French examination. At one point they do feel overwhelmed. They want to know certain grammar points or to be able to pronounce some difficult words in French.

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