French Lessons
One-on-One Sessions
Group Classes
Monthly Workshops
- Have you invested a lot of time and energy into French classes or apps, learning a lot, but you still find yourself stuck in conversation, as if you get “tongue tied”?
- Do you feel less confident in your ability to speak the language you love? Is that causing you to hold back from pursuing your learning journey?
- Do you long to travel and use what you have learned to speak with other French speakers and yet find yourself defaulting back to your first language?
OUR APPROACH MIGHT BE THE EXACT THING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR !!!
- Focused on conversational French, it is specifically designed to help you speak right away!
- We work with you on outer blockages to fluency, and specifically on the one we find to be the most important: correct pronunciation.
- We also work with you on the inner blockages. With specific exercises we help you turn doubt into confidence and hesitance into an enlivening sense of “taking the risk to speak” and surprising yourself with your newly ackwired fluency each week”.
“C’est à mon pays natal le Liban que je dois ma passion pour la langue Française et mes premières petites aventures en France.
En 2013, l’amour de la danse et du yoga m’amène ici aux Etats Unis pour un court séjour à Kripalu. Là je découvre la thérapie somatique par le mouvement et l’expression artistique qui me passionne. Je m’installe alors à Massachusetts pour poursuivre de longs trainings dans le domaine. Au CT depuis 2017, j’enseigne le yoga, le yoga-danse en plus de la thérapie somatique que j’offre à Hartford et à Simsbury. Bien qu’imprégnée depuis dans la culture américaine que j’apprécie énormément, je ne perds pas le désir de m’exprimer en Français, bien au contraire, le Français me manque!
J’ai hâte de faire votre connaissance et de partager avec vous la richesse que la langue et la culture françaises m’ont offert en tant que Libanaise!”
Mary.
Locations
One-on-One Sessions
Online or In Person
By appointment. Call: 413-445-1921
Schools I’ve worked with:
Loomis Chaffee, Avon HS, Farmington HS, Simsbury HS, KO, The Alliance Française, and many more locally and nationally…
Salut!
Does it still sound like “salou” sometimes, despite all the hours you’ve spent on French lessons?
Do other vowels seem to be pronounced in confusion and uncertainty?
Do you judge your own pronunciation and find that this affects your confidence when it comes to speaking French?
Pronunciation is at the very heart of the French learning process, yes, but some sounds simply don’t exist in English, and that’s the challenge that can lead to hesitation, stress, self-judgment and blockages around speaking the language you love!
We have put together special experiential exercises to help the ears, the tongue, the lips, etc… learn how to produce these sounds!
In this workshop, we focus on how it FEELS in those small muscles to make a certain sound, and our goal is that you leave having discovered new “sensations” of the vowels, and feeling more confident next time you speak in French!
Presentation about the French language in a franocphone country: Lebanon, at the Alliance Française de Hartford, 2019.