![]() ![]() ![]() There are many factors that will slow down your progress such as family, work, other priorities, motivation. Now, I will help you identify what is blocking you in your progress and also to help you stop feeling bad about it. Even if it’s not pleasant or easy, a teacher should tell you the truth and this is what I am going to do in this article. With my students, if the attitude of the student toward the French language isn’t going to lead to an improvement, I invite my students to change the approach they have with the language, to rethink their objectives, to take a break or to simply stop. Being honest with a student or customer doesn’t mean being mean like the awful high school language teacher we use to have. If a student behaves like the two examples I gave previously, she/he will never speak French, and teacher and school shouldn’t sell the dream of speaking French one day. Only a few of them tell the truth if you are going to make it or not. Moreover, there are many French teachers and French schools lying to potential and actual students and maybe to you as well. If learning French isn’t a priority for a student/customer, teaching French shouldn’t be a priority for the teacher. Did I accept to teach the five hours? Of course not. Was learning French a priority or a need for this person? Absolutely not. Guess when the winner contacted me for the five hours class? In February the following year! 45 days after the due date, 230 days after the Gala evening. The gala was in May and the voucher was valid until December. I thought it would be a good promotional opportunity for my school and my services and so I gave a voucher of 5 hours of Private French classes. An International School in the suburb of Parisorganized a charity gala and was looking for a gift for a raffle. In the same fashion, I give you another example. Learning French: When it's not a priority This is only one example of the non exhaustive list of factors that will delay your progress in French. For this reason, he/she will not succeed. Why? Because the motivation to learn comes from the emergency of getting a job, not because he/she is interested in the language and the culture in itself. I have been in France for three years and now I urgently need french to find a job.Well, I will probably sound like a terrible person, but this person will never speak French. For example, when I receive an email like this : hello, I would like to learn french as soon as possible. I can already tell when I receive the email requiring information about private French classes. Today I can identify in no time if a student is going to be successful or not. Surprisingly, not being gifted isn’t the main reason some people don’t progress. In other words, I have identified the reasons why people succeed with learning languages or not. ![]() My job made me analyse and evaluate successful students and others. Within this last decade, I have developed a good database of students and witnessed their relationship with the French language. I can’t even tell you how many students I have helped to improve their French since 2009. In this article, I would like to share with you my expertise about teaching French as a second language for a decade and also my own expertise as a language student. I think it’s a very interesting question. A question that came often from the audience was “why can some people learn French quickly while others still can't speak French after a certain amount of time”. It was a very nice evening with around 40 people interested in this topic. The other day, I was invited to a conference at the American Library in Paris to discuss bilingualism and the challenges of learning a second language. Answer these 27 questions to find out whether learning French is for you ![]()
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