French Blabla

Bonjour à tous ! Welcome to the French Blabla podcast where you'll find tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. If you're fed up with boring grammar books or tired of speaking an artificial French, far from how natives speak, then this podcast is for you. This podcast isn't French grammar or French vocabulary only, we will cover a wide range of topics that will help you in your learning journey. What are you waiting for? Join me!

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Episodes

Ep13 - Don't forget your raincoat in Ireland - Let's talk about the weather

Coucou tout le monde, Welcome to the thirteenth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. In this new episode we will continue our trip to Dublin with Candice. This time, she will talk about the weather . Through our conversation, we'll learn how to talk about the weather but also we will study some fluency tips to improve your listening skills. Stay tuned! In this Episode Bad French English accent Learn the vocabu...

Aug 23, 2016•3 min

Ep12 - Dublin is so cool - How to describe your city

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the twelfth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. This episode is a bit special, I've decided to have a chat with my little sister and we talked about her last holidays in Dublin. Through our conversation, we'll learn how to talk about our city. Stay tuned! In this Episode Bad French English accent Learn the vocabulary of the city Tips for a better pronunciation A challenge for you to...

Aug 15, 2016•4 min

Ep11 - The Real French Etiquette in Shops

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the eleventh episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. This episode is once again inspired by one of my advanced student who told me a story of an embarrassing situation she experienced in a shop in Paris. She was shocked that nobody told her about that. Today we're going to study together the real French manners when you go to shops so that you don't have to experience what my student di...

Aug 15, 2016•7 min

L'heure du conte - 01 - Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

Coucou à tous, I hope everything is going as great for you as for me. I'm thrilled to introduce you with this post to a new segment of my podcast. I will, of course, continue to do the normal episodes with my tips to improve your fluency. I have, however, decided to expand a bit and to create a new series that will teach you French. We will start with the three parts Fairy tale series that will help you master the past tenses. For each part, you will find the audio of the story and a study guide...

Jun 16, 2016•7 min

Ep10 - The Guide to Love

Salut à tous, Welcome to the tenth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. This episode is inspired by one of my Conversation student who keeps using the phrase "je l'aime". I realized that even though the verb "aimer" is one of the first we learn and seems very easy to use, it can be tricky to master. This verb has a lot of nuances and we will study them today so that you can really express your feelings accurat...

May 30, 2016•10 min

Ep09 - 3 Tips to boost your listening skills

Salut à tous, Welcome to the ninth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. Today we tackle the biggest challenge French learners face, that is understanding when people talk. Pronunciation in all our study books doesn't come close to what we hear in the streets. There are a few reasons for that and today we will study 3 tips to boost your listening skills. Stay tuned! In this Episode Tips to sound more natural 3 ...

Mar 25, 2016•10 min

Ep08 - Essentials#2 - Stop confusing Bon and Bien

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the eight episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. Let's start 2016 with some French! I wish you all the best for this new year and I hope you will fill it with language learning. To kick-start it, today we will cover two words that learners usually don't really know how to use. We will cover tips to choose wisely and to understand why we use what we use depending on the situation. Stay ...

Jan 01, 2016•7 min

Ep07 - Asking questions about work like a native

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the seventh episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. I know that in my previous post, I told you that this episode would be the second part of my French Essentials serie, but I changed my mind in the mean time and really wanted to do a follow-up of the third episode where we talked about introducing ourselves like real French people. I thought that doing a single episode about self-intro...

Nov 13, 2015•6 min

Ep06 - French Essentials#1 - Stop confusing C'est and Il est

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the sixth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. This episode was created hearing my advanced students make this mistake over and over again. I've decided that it was time to end the confusion and help choose correctly between the two constructions. In today's episode, you will see that it's a trap easy to avoid. We will cover tips to choose wisely and to understand why we use what we ...

Oct 31, 2015•7 min

Ep05 - You shall not pass - Tips to avoid the subjunctive - Guest episode with Takelessons.com

Bonjour à tous, Welcome to the fifth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. This episode was created in collaboration with our friends at Takelessons.com and you can find the original post by clicking here. You will get extra tips on how to create the subjunctive. I was super excited to be contacted to create an episode for them. I'm also really happy I had the chance to meet the friendly Megan. In today's episo...

Oct 07, 2015•10 min

Ep04 - Risqué pronunciation - The mistakes you must avoid

Welcome to the fourth episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. In today's episode, I will share with you a shameful moment of my English journey and you will discover some words that you should pronounce correctly if you don't want to get offended looks, or if you don't want to put yourself in an awkward situation. In this Episode Why I was so embarrassed on that fateful night The words you really shouldn't mispro...

Aug 24, 2015•7 min•Ep. 4

Ep03 - How to introduce yourself like a native

Welcome to the third episode of the French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. In today's episode, we will go back to the first lesson ever that you took in French. You remember when you learnt how to introduce yourself? I'm sure you only repeated "Je m'appelle" and I'm afraid this is not what natives would say. In this Episode Ways to introduce yourself Say bye bye to artificial French How to behave when you meet somebody Music b...

Aug 07, 2015•5 min

Ep02 - Sound like a native#1 - The R sound

Welcome to the second episode of French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. In today's episode, we will talk about the most difficult sound of the French language, that is to say our R sound. Feared by many of you, after this episode, you will know all there is to know about it and you will have the tools to face this sound! In this Episode Reasons you can't pronounce R in every word A step by step guide to pronounce the R sound H...

Jul 31, 2015•8 min

Ep01 - Overcome your fear of speaking now

Welcome to the first episode of French Blabla podcast where we will cover tips to increase your fluency while boosting your way of learning. In today's episode, we will talk about a situation that every learner has faced at least once. It can be a real plague for some of us and prevent us from reaching our full potential. Today is the day you will discover how to overcome your fear of speaking. In this Episode Reasons we get blocked and paralyzed when speaking a foreign language Why the recurren...

Jun 12, 2015•9 min•Ep. 1

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