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Founder's Notes

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Circling Upwards

Every long piece of work moves through four phases. They take equal time but cost you differently. I am writing a book, and I have come to see that writing one is much like learning a language: both climb the same staircase, and both feel hardest where you would least expect.

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Interview with Nur Ungan

Nur's advice to new learners: dedicate a significant amount of focused time—at least a solid six months—to start seeing credible results. Read more about her experiences and advice for language learning.

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Learning a language is living a relationship

There is a moment, early on, when a language stops being foreign. You cannot plan for it. It arrives the way a person does: suddenly interesting, suddenly necessary, and you find yourself rearranging your days around it without quite knowing why.

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The Edge of Things

The accent you're not working on, the subjunctive you're avoiding... those are your edges. That's where the language is waiting for you. Fluency lives at the boundary, the word you almost know, the sentence you have to reach for, the conversation slightly above your level that forces improvisation.

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Le Petit Prince (Part 2) - A Community Reading Project

This is the part 2 of our first community reading project: podcast recordings created by the French learners, of a famous book, ‘Le Petit Prince’ (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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Au-delà de tout ça ~ Beyond all that

On paper, learning French looks like a language project. Vocabulary. Grammar. Listening. Speaking. But after a while, you start noticing something else: the same qualities that move you forward in French are the same qualities that move you forward in life. At The French Club, the surface is French, but the deeper work is something else.

We are a fast-growing online French learning community and boast over 8,000 members globally. We offer French classes for absolute beginners and those who are more advanced. We believe that fast progress is made when a student has a supportive and empowered community behind them.

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