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How you can practice understanding more complex French sentence structures (even without knowing a lot of vocabulary)

When learning French (or any foreign language), one of the difficulties is getting used to sentence constructions, understanding causality, and decoding subtleties indicated by short words expressing links between the…

French word games

Learning French with crossword puzzles, yay or nay?

As a native French speaker, I really like crossword puzzles and other word games. I've been thinking about the use of such games by French learners: would crossword puzzles be…

Tips for learning French

Should you learn “bad” or “wrong” French to be able to communicate?

When learning a foreign language, like French, should you stick to clean, textbooks French, playing by the official rules, or should you also learn its wrong usages, like incorrect use…

French comprehensible input content Reading in French

How to find Substack publications in French to practice reading

Substack is a great place to find free content to practice reading French. However, it's not always easy to find publications in French, as there is currently no language filter…

French comprehensible input content Reading in French

How to find free French ebooks

You're learning French and you'd like to find longer, richer material to practice reading? Once you've tackled news articles, blog posts and short stories, the next step is immersing yourself…

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…

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…

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…