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How to improve your French reading with the “French comprehensible input” method

Using the "French comprehensible input" method means consuming French content (articles, books, videos, shows, movies, podcasts...) instead of studying vocabulary and grammar. It allows to learn the "real French", the…

French comprehensible input content

How to easily find French speaking Youtube channels to practice comprehensible input

Immersion is the best way to get your hears used to a foreign language and to learn natural, authentic sentence structures and expressions. If you can't visit a country where…

Professional written French Workplace French

Authentic and modern professional written conversations in French

In French courses and manuals, conversation examples are not really natural. For example, nowadays, professional conversations are ways less formal than what you can learn from school and classes. When…

French journaling

Talking and writing about one’s hobbies in French

In order to remember new words in French, it's useful to read them several times, in different contexts, but using and writing them also greatly helps. That's why journaling is…

Learning French on your own

Using gen AI to learn French: how to do it well

How to use Artificial Intelligence (AI), and services like ChatGPT, Copilot or DeepL, to learn French or another foreign language? In this post, I share good practices and attention points…

Writing a summary in French

French book summary: Chroniques Z (feel good, slice of life)

"Chroniques Z" is a novel written by Savina Lenoble and published by La Lucarne Indécente. The book was written for a large audience: it can be enjoyed by teenagers or…

Writing a summary in French

French book summary: Big Universe (dystopian thriller)

In this post, I share a summary of the first novel I wrote, "Big Universe". I won't tell how it ends but explain a bit what the story's about. Big…

French expressions and vocabulary

20 figurative everyday expressions in French (quiz)

I created a video quiz about 20 figurative expressions we often use in French. In this article, I'll give additional information about those expressions and how to use them exactly.…

Learning French on your own

How I’m learning a language by myself (part 3: intermediate to upper intermediate)

In this series of articles, I started sharing the tools and methods I used to start learning a language on my own. I wrote about mobile apps, vocab and grammar…

Learning French on your own

How I’m learning a language by myself (part 2: from beginner to intermediate)

In the first post of this series, I explained how I started learning a language by myself, without going to school and taking private lessons. I started with mobile apps…

French in manga

Learn new French expressions with a manga: “L’auberge des saisons perdues”

Reading "slice of life" manga is a great way to practice reading in French and to discover new words and expressions. I read a sample of the manga "L'auberge des…