French - Advanced
This course is ideal for:
learners who have studied the language beyond GCSE or A Level, and can hold their own in most every day conversations with native speakers. Through a month-by-month look at a typical year in France, you will broaden your cultural knowledge, as well as improving your listening skills and developing confidence in speaking.
Expect lots of opportunities to practise spoken French– without the safety net of a tried-and-tested structure. If you visit France a lot, your classmates will want to hear all about it!
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French
Italian
Spanish
Bonjour/Ciao/¡Hola! I’m French-Italian and I speak Spanish. Growing up on the French Riviera near Italy sparked my love for languages. I studied Music and Languages then moved to the UK. After successfully using my languages in Banking and IT, I became a language teacher and have been teaching for the past 20 years. I am cheerful, patient and enthusiastic. I am good at helping people of all levels overcome their fear of speaking a foreign language, focusing on building confidence and having fun.
Holidays are spent in France, Italy or Spain with my husband and our two boys, who are brought up bilingually in French but are also learning Spanish and Italian.
Sometimes at home, if we don't want the kids to understand something, we speak in German to each other but unfortunately the kids manage to get the jist of it. We need to learn another "secret language"! On my list is Portuguese and Polish but I haven't started yet.