30 minutes for us to meet, evaluate your levels and goals — and of course to learn your first new words!

You're a beginner but you dislike traditional, textbook-based learning...
You're an advanced speaker and you want to explore the depths of a specific topic...
You're a professional and you need to master the vernacular of your field of expertise...
You just want to practice conversational french freely while learning new words and expressions every step of the way...
The Conversations were designed for you! 
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The Conversations

You are either a beginner, intermediate or advanced learner of French...
You want to learn it in a methodical way and explore all its aspects step by step...
You know a good accent is nothing without proper grammar, and vocabulary knowledge only gets better with that of idioms...
You want to gradually improve your level and reach your goals with a comprehensive yet exciting program...
The Curriculum was designed for you !
Shoot me a message, let me know your level and goals and off we go!

The Curriculum

Pour ceux qui n'ont pas froid aux yeux, un mélange phonétique française, d'exploration poétique et de technique vocale !
Nous analyserons le sens et la prononciation d'une chanson de votre choix, tout en apprenant à la chanter... Alors, aurez-vous le courage d'essayer ?

Not for the faint of heart, a mix of french phonetics, poetic exploration and vocal technique!
We'll analyse both the meaning and pronunciation of a song of your choice, whilst learning how to sing it... So, will you dare give it go?

SING IN FRENCH!

The Diplôme Professionnel de l'Alliance Française de Paris - FLE is awarded after completion of a 5 months training that covers Preparation of classes (grammar, phonetics, sociocultural, use of textbooks and other supports); Teaching (pedagogical techniques, strategies with individuals and groups, etc.); Evaluation (correction, tests, etc.); Acquisition and Reinforcement of Knowledge (in-depth learning, exposition to extra-material and immersion strategies, etc). After, one's ready to teach!

The curriculum covered a wide range of topics for learners of english as a foreign language: grammar, tenses, figures of speech, etc. We were also taught different pedagogical approaches so that we'd be able to teach different subjects to different students in an efficient way. The whole course took me seven months to complete, mainly because I hyper-focused on it.

I worked for about two years with the Alliance Française, both in Chandigarh and New Delhi, India, mainly with adults who wanted to learn French for professional reasons (many of them worked or wanted to get a position in call centres, where French was a rather rare skill). This was probably one of the hardest, yet most rewarding of my professional experiences. Students were beginners and learning was hard, but they were motivated. It taught me a lot: patience, creativity, care, etc.

If anything, the understanding of basic acoustic principles gave me tools to teach pronunciation. Additionally, mixing language and singing lessons has proven very efficient because learning and singing a song allow students to deeply internalize phonetics and grammar patterns.