I teach: French Pronunciation

You receive a passage that is a challenge to read in French.

You learn how to position your mouth to be able to understand the difference in HOW the English and French sounds are made.

Moving on to the pronunciation, you will find that the reading of the passage is much easier.

In the following conversation practice you will be able to articulate carefully and with far more ease. At this point, you start forming the muscle memory required for French pronunciation sounding like a French person.

I use clear and pertinent materials that you can download.

We use those at YOUR pace to progress YOUR learning.

Learning is REAL . . .

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Learning

I help you explore outside of your comfort zone in order to enjoy your learning and progress your linguistic skills.

My aime is to facilitate YOUR confidence building through your increased ability to APPLY your learning.

just learning and absorbing vocabulary and grammar is not enough. You need to be able to apply it at speed in spontaneous conversations.

I have been doing this work in my Conversation Café session for over a year, then built a course around it in order to help other people.

This is because as much as we can learn a lot of grammar and vocabulary, how we apply it in spontaneous conversations often trips us up - many people stumble over their words, struggle to keep up with conversations in French and then find themselves repeatedly having to express themselves again. this is often due to still having English intonation, overlaying English vowel sounds and particularly struggling with the nasal sounds. All are covered in the hour.

Without exception, everyone improved right form the first ten minutes, and then exponentially in the realm of sounding more French.

I understand the mechanisms to sound French, as opposed to sounding English or American.

Living in France has proven that although having an accent is 'cute', we need to be able to be understood quickly, and to understand a conversation without being left behind. Doing the pronunciation work in a fun way has proven for each participant to have made a significant difference in their listening skills as well. That was a rather pleasant bonus for everyone!

My passion for work in the quality of learning means that I invest in the session being most worthwhile for everyone.

This is the first of a series of lessons to progress your pronunciation for sounding very English to sounding very French.

You start with positioning the mouth, the tongue, looking at the airflow and jaw movement in relation to the French accent.

You compare what you are currently doing, to understand how to make these physical changes.

You practise reading out loud in French using this new technique.

You look at nasal sounds - and how easy they become now.

You look at intonation and practise how it is different from English.

You're given time to practise.

You briefly study where and how to make liaisons. And then practise them!

You dictate in French a sentence for someone else to understand!

Go aply in real liofe!