#1
Read the street
We walk and read everything: signs, menus, posters. You say it out loud.
How I teach
A teacher, and a bit of a friend.
I adapt to your energy and your level, we change place every session, and you leave having spoken more French than you expected.
- One teacher, one learner
- A new place every time
- The app between sessions
my rules
- You talk, I listen.
- A new place, every time.
- A mistake? We keep going.
- Effort gets cheered.
— Théodore
Before we meet
Two minutes of questions, so we both come prepared.
A short online questionnaire: your level, your time, what you want to do in French. Our first session already starts tailored to you.
Take the questionnaire →The first 15 minutes
First, we get to know each other.
- youWho you are, why French, what you love doing.
- your paceYour energy, your level: I adapt to you, not the other way round.
- the practicalWhere, when, how it all works.
- your notesI write on the board, clear and legible. You keep your own notebook, and I send you a photo of the board at the end.
Every session
Never the same place twice.
After the first meeting, every session is a new activity somewhere new. A new place brings new words — and something real to say.
- ☕ A café
- 🍷 A bar
- 🛒 The market
- 🏛️ A museum
- 🚶 A walk
- 🚴 Sport
- 🍳 A kitchen
What we do there
#2
A quick bit of culture
Why the French do it that way — explained in two minutes, on the spot.
#3
A funny expression
One per session, the kind you really hear. Avoir la flemme, anyone?
#4
Your five minutes
You pick a topic and talk about it for five minutes. The floor is yours.
The shortcut
Speak with the present. The rest can wait.
My way to get you talking fast: a few structures that cover the past, the future and what you want — before any grammar book.
Your toolkitFIL
je · tuThe only two forms you need at first.
je suis allé · j'ai faitThe past. All the time.
je vais + verbThe future. All the time.
je voudraisWhat you want.
le · laDoesn't matter yet. We come back to it later — on purpose.
Hop: every tense, with just the present. Plus the everyday action verbs.
At the bar, 3rd session
SarahJe voudrais le bière, s'il vous plaît !
le or la? Doesn't matter. She got her beer.
ThéoParfait ! Et hier, tu as fait quoi ?
SarahHier, je suis allée au marché.
je suis allée: the past, done.
ThéoEt demain ?
SarahDemain, je vais cuisiner !
je vais + verb: the future, in the present.
Stuck? Stay in French.
- Comment on dit… ?how do you say…?
- Plus lentement, s'il te plaît.slower, please
- Tu peux répéter ?can you say it again?
- Je ne comprends pas.I don't understand
Want to go further? We add the basics: numbers, the street, shops, food.
Between sessions
Between sessions, the app keeps going.
Every session is recorded. The FIL app turns what you actually said into progress — and into the starting point of our next session.
- 1What you said, keptNothing to write down: the session is recorded, and the app keeps your words.
- 2Your new words, your repeat mistakesPicked out of the conversation, with their corrections.
- 3Cards in your own voiceThe sentence you actually said, beside the model.
- 4Your speaking timeHow much of the talking was yours — the more, the better.
- 5Mini homework, from your conversationsSmall, personal, with a reminder the day before.
- 6Your words come backNext time, I bring your words back in a new place. A word counts as learned when you use it again, unprompted.
And at the end, I cheer you on.
Every session ends the same way: I tell you what you did well. Learning a language takes effort — and effort deserves to be seen.
