Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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💡 There’s a reason you’re not making progress with your French: you’re focusing on the wrong things! Here’s what to focus on instead.

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What if I told you that the reason you’re struggling to make progress with your French is because you’re focusing on the wrong things?

Don’t worry — it’s not your fault. If you first learned French in a classroom setting, your teachers were focused on teaching you proper, written French… or what I call school French. And they were right to do that! This more formal French certainly has a time and place.

Unfortunately, though, you didn’t learn French like a French person would. You could even say that you were taught backwards. Which is exactly why you speak written French instead of spoken French… and why you can’t understand the waiters in Paris, or the actors in Lupin.

The best way I can explain the difference between school French and spoken French is with examples… and that’s exactly what I’m giving you in today’s lesson!

Take care and stay safe.
😘 from Grenoble, France.

Géraldine