French - Advanced
This course is ideal for:
those who can get by reasonably well in conversations but still struggle to understand the French speaking in their relaxed and speedy fashion?
Try out this friendly conversational, book club group, to improve listening comprehension with french scripted dialogue read at french speed. Gain knowledge of the culture and have fun in this relaxed, supportive group.
This group has a strong conversational element to sessions but we still go over grammar and pronunciation points as they come up in class. We do a lot of conversation, using our personalised scripts that support us in the strong free-styled element of class. We will be enhancing our vocabulary by reading a French work of fiction alongside our usual materials.
The tutor Lucy will speak almost entirely in French but repeat in English when needed.
Monday 1:30 – 3pm.
Please fill in the online enquiry form so that I have your details and I will get back to you.
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I was born in Spain and grew up in France, DRC, Gabon & Ghana, with a short stint in an English Boarding school thrown in. I moved to London when I was 17 and spent about 10 years living there before moving to Switzerland, followed by Tanzania and then South Africa. I was able to learn how to speak a bit of Swahili when I lived in Tanzania which reignited my love of languages. I eventually moved back to the UK in 2014.
The first word that I learnt in French when I was 3 years old was ‘Chocolat’, which I learnt from our neighbours in rural France. I was educated in French until I was 11 years old, both in France and in West Africa before transferring across to an English education.
I have worked in many different industries from hospitality & tourism to property development. I have spent many years trying to find a career that inspires me with a subject that I feel passionate about. It turns out that I am very good at talking and making conversation but more than anything I just love speaking French and love the French culture (and food), so I realised that I should be sharing this love with other people.
For the last 4 years I have been running French Clubs for primary aged children and have also tutored various family members to help them get through their French GCSE’s, A’Levels or IB’s. I have also helped work colleagues with admin or secretarial work that requires French fluency and communication in France.
I am so grateful for the upbringing that I was given, opening my world to other cultures and understanding the importance of communication in other languages even at its most basic level. I feel that it is such a privilege to share this passion with others.
