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Tips and Insights for a Mindful Approach to Learning French
When Your French Practice Becomes a Meditation
As an intermediate learner, you may have noticed that learning French has its challenges, especially when we focus on the results. You may know that mindfulness and meditation offers us many tools for a more peaceful, sustainable and pleasant approach to language...
8 Reasons Why You Should Join Us in Bali
I’ve recently shared with you what Language Retreats are and why they are so effective and life-changing, not only in terms of language improvement but also in the way we connect to the language at a different level. The concept...
Learning French for Self-Therapy
How journaling in English saved me I was a teenager when I grabbed my first empty journal. In an outburst of anger and desperate tears, I opened my drawer and let the words roll out of me, through my pen and onto the paper. Everything that my mouth couldn’t possibly...
Journaling for Language Learning? Oh yes!
Guest post by Maria Ortega Garcia If you've been reading me for a while, you know journaling for language learning is very dear to my heart and I keep advocating it to my clients and students. It is the quintescential activity to blend your French practice with...
All About Language Retreats
Last summer, in early August, in a little French beach village called “Beaulieu-sur-mer” (which literally means “beautiful place on the beach”), I hosted my first Mindful French Retreat with my eager and curious participants. But what made 5 people cross the world to...
Learning French? 4 Ways Mindfulness Can Help
All the learning experiences that I design at French SunnySide blend French acquisition and mindfulness. Mindfulness and Languages, a strange combination, you say? Look at it more closely, and you’ll see… Today I’m sharing with you 4 ways in which mindfulness can improve how you learn French.
Comment développer une mentalité de croissance
Quand j’étais petite, on me disait souvent que j’étais intelligente et talentueuse pour les langues. C’est un gentil compliment, n’est-ce pas? Mais si je te disais que ces compliments que l’on fait, avec toutes nos bonnes intentions, sont en fait néfastes (negative)...
L’apprentissage « naturel »: 7 façons d’être inspiré par les enfants.
Cet article participe à l’évènement inter-blogueurs « L’apprentissage (quasi) naturel des langues étrangères », organisé par le blog Le français illustré. As-tu déjà observé la facilité avec laquelle les enfants apprennent à parler une langue? C’est incroyable...
Tout savoir sur la St-Valentin!
Aaaah la Saint Valentin! Une fête incontournable, non? Je t'avoue que ce n'est pas ma fête préférée! Cependant, je suis professeur de français. Et le français, c'est la langue de l'amour, n'est-ce pas? Par conséquent, il fallait que je t'enseigne une bricole ou...
Le pouvoir de l’écriture
Fluidifier l’expression orale Un des premiers conseils que je donne à mes étudiants en français, c’est d’écrire un journal. Cela peut paraître contre-intuitif, puisqu’on aurait tendance à croire que pour mieux parler, il suffit de parler plus, n’est-ce pas? Pourtant,...
The Mindful French Learner's Guide
Are you tired of the traditional French class? Do you feel disconnected from your French practice? Do you wish you were more discipined? Are you stagnating in a pool of intermediate French soup?
This free Mindful French Learner's Guide will show you the way to a more respectful and meaningful way to acquire French, all while making progress on your path to self-awareness.
You will experience:
* The benefits of journaling in French
* The link between mindfulness and French
* How reading and listening can become natural when you are genuinely interested in the topic.