Speak Frog

Become fluent in 6 months

Posted by in Art, Blog, Language, Practice

Thanks to Mike (currently on the advanced course) for sharing this! If you want to learn fast, I will teach you  the essential grammar you need to speak French. Nothing less, nothing more. You will then start practising and building on what you have learnt. Follow Chris Lonsdale’s 5 principals and you will become fluent in 6 months. 1)  Focus on language content that is relevant to you: 2) Use your language to communicate from day 1! 3) Focus on the message that is delivered through the language 4) Physicalise the language. Be aware…read more

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Love letter

Posted by in Art, Cinema, History, Language, Literature

Most of my students learn French because they have a French speaking partner. So, as the weekend begins, here is the ultimate French love letter. Je suis perdu, vois-tu, je suis noyé, inondé d’amour: ‘I am lost you see, I am drowned, flooded with love’… Romantic poet and playwright Alfred de Musset writes to his lover George Sand (aka Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin), another prominent 19th century writer. Their passionate and tumultuous relationship is also the subject of a 1999 film with Juliette Binoche: Les Enfants du Siècle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwSYTLHEjE Baden, 1834 Voilà…read more

Lucian Freud

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France Culture -one of the French public radios I’ve listed in the Resources page- ran a very interesting show on British painter Lucian Freud. Born in Berlin, the grandson of Sigmund Freud acquired the British nationality almost as soon as his family migrated to London in 1933 when he was 12 years old. The radio show Une vie, une oeuvre takes us on a journey through his life and work. It features extracts of interviews with Lucian Freud from the BBC archives,  insights from David Dawson, his model and assistant…read more

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