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Burgundy Region Immersion Home Stay Class

Maryse welcomes you in her home and designs a course specially for you

Learning French in Maryse's gorgeous house will ensure that you make tremendous progress within a short period of time. Speaking French and only French will help you to acquire an authentic accent, develop your self-confidence and enjoy a real fluency in the language. The course is designed to meet your own needs, at your own pace in a very small group (1-3 students).

The mornings are dedicated to the 4-hour class (22 hours per week) and your local guide, Maryse, will take you on excursions twice a week in the afternoon.

My Essential Link List

My Amazon.com store with products I use and recommend, must have and favorites

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My favorite free resources to learn French (with audio):

French.About.com has tons of material, free lessons, great forums, and a fun newsletter that will keep you informed of the updates. Several of my lessons are featured by Laura, including my free book A Moi Paris.

The French site of the BBC features Ma France, 24 VIDEO episodes to brush up your French, and much more.

This is a fun way to learn French, with French music videos and lyrics clips pour apprendre.

Very nice site to listen to words of vocabulary and conjugated verbs audiofrench.

Basque Country Immersion home stay class

Improve your French and experience real French lifestyle in the warmth of Myriam's home

Myriam Rolando (a French native teacher who also speaks English & Japanese) offers immersion classes and stays in her home in the beautiful region of Bayonne, in the South Western part of France, near the Pyrénées mountains and Spanish border, and the Atlantic ocean (Biarritz).

Learn French and French culture as Myriam guides you through her beloved region and it's culinary delights.

School for adults in the Loire Valley

A unique school with lots of flexibility in an amazing region

With an average student age of 27 in the summer and 38 the rest of the year, a solid program and many accommodation options, CLE school could be exactly what you need. Located in the heart of the Loire Valley, only 1 hour by train from Paris, you will discover the endless activities this gorgeous region has to offer: hikes, tours of the many castles and churches, walks in medieval towns, amazing food and wine...

Teaching Children French - Pitfalls & Bad Habits

If you want to successfully teach French to your children, you have to make up a plan of action, and stick to it in the long run.

Be firm and consistent

Don’t forget though, repetition is the key. And it’s likely that at one point your kid is going to show some resistance. Like wanting to watch TV in English. If you give in once, then it’s going to be a struggle each and every time. Of course your child will prefer doing what is easier, and hear English. But we all know the attraction TV has on kids. So use it, present TV as a special treat. And that treat comes only in French, so it’s French TV, or no TV. Same goes for music, stories etc... See the tools I personally recommend here.