French Everyday
Online Learning
Welcome to this page dedicated to self-guided French learning!
I’ve created this content to help you develop your French skills between classes. If you have any questions or encounter any difficulties, don’t hesitate to contact me by email or WhatsApp (flash the QR code below).
Welcome aboard!
To Start With
Voilà 5 tips
#1 – Regularity is key. Make an appointment with yourself every day to study these contents. Create a pleasant routine for these appointments (for me, for example, in bed with a coffee before getting up!).
#2 – The brain is a teenager: curious but quickly tired. Do 10/15 minute sessions – you can do several per day if you want/can.
#3 – Knowledge is a building. As with any building, maintain the foundations and walls of your French by regularly reviewing the content already studied.
Et aussi
#4 – Dopamine is a good drug. Don’t hesitate to redo activities that you already master. Succeeding feels good! And it allows you to measure the progress you’ve made.
#5 – The more you use French, the newer it is. Like good quality shoes and unlike bad quality shoes, the more you use your French, the more resistant and comfortable it will become.
Discover here some tips to use your French every day without getting bored.
Yes We Verbs
VERBS - YOUR FRENCH BFF
If vocabulary is the skeleton of your French, conjugation is the muscle. It’s by using verbs that you can activate the words you know.
An example? Coffee!
I like coffee.
I’d like a coffee.
I drank a coffee.
Do you want a coffee?
These are very different statements using the same word – thanks to verbs and their conjugation. That’s why, during the early stages of your learning, personal work with verbs is very important.
Two objectives
- Memorizing verbs and their different forms
- Integrating these forms in a more and more automatic way into your conversations
The second objective keeps us very busy during the lessons (and you can also work on it at home).
The first one can be worked on during the lessons, but it is much more effective and efficient to do it at home because it requires an incompressible amount of time. So yes, it may seem tedious and endless, but I hope the following activities will make this learning more fun!
1. Present Tense
The Three Musketeers: être, avoir and aller
To be, to have and to go are the pillars of French conjugation. You’ll use them all the time, not just in the present, but to build the past and future too. They’re a must-learn that will open many doors for you!
The ER Verbs: Everyday & Regular
Regular French verbs ending in -er form the largest group of verbs. They follow a simple conjugation pattern, making them easy to learn and use. These verbs are essential for building sentences, as they cover a wide range of actions and states of being. By mastering them, you’ll be well on your way to becoming fluent.
2. Future Tense
The Everyday Reliable Verbs: visiter and co.
Regular French verbs ending in -er form the largest group of verbs in the language. They follow a simple conjugation pattern, making them easy to learn and use. These verbs are essential for building sentences in French, as they cover a wide range of actions and states of being. By mastering these verbs, you’ll be well on your way to becoming fluent.
The second objective keeps us very busy during the lessons (and you can also work on it at home).
The first one can be worked on during the lessons, but it is much more effective and efficient to do it at home because it requires an incompressible amount of time. So yes, it may seem tedious and endless, but I hope the following activities will make this learning more fun!
What To Expect?
Hello! You are taking your first steps in French and I am delighted to accompany you on this journey. Here are some suggestions for organizing your personal work.
In this page, you will find “ready-to-speak” content – content to use right away. The elements are written and offered orally. As you may know, it can sometimes be difficult to connect the spelling of words and their pronunciation – it’s part of the joys of learning French! 😱
That’s why I recommend that you pay close attention to the audio elements and rely mainly on your ear.
- Step 1 – Greet
Discover and practice: https://www.languageguide.org/french/greetings/
Test yourself by checking “Listening Quiz” on the same page (see top right of the screen).
Practice by following the French custom of greeting in small shops – a good workout! Target the small shops in the city center of Montpellier, for example those on rue de l’Argenterie:
- When entering: “Bonjour” or “Bonsoir” (when it is dark → night)
- When leaving: “Au revoir” then “Bonne journée / bonne soirée” (when it is dark → night)
