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French Awareness
ELEVATE YOUR FRENCH - ELEVATE YOUR LIFE
Learning French is a Beautiful Adventure
Yet, once the honeymoon phase has faded, many people find the process tricky, daunting and frustrating.
If you’ve been learning French for a while and you find yourself stuck in a place where you’re no longer feeling like you’re making progress, and the idea of cramming more French grammar into your brains doesn't feel like a joyful endeavor, you’re at the right place.
Most people don’t know this, but after decades of teaching hundreds of intermediate students, it is widely observed that :
- Weekly conversation classes stop being effective: you keep focusing on performance without integrating any of what you learned between sessions.
- Vocabulary retention drops : you’re now able to navigate basic conversations and survive in French so your brain sets in “comfort mode”.
- It’s harder to correct mistakes that you’ve been repeating several times since you still manage to get your meaning across.
If you’ve noticed that yourself, congrats! You’re completely normal and you’re experiencing what we call “a learning plateau”.
And there’s an easy way out of it.
The Simple Way out of the Learning Plateau
Most learners in your situations believe that to get out of this discouraging learning plateau, they have to try harder : they learn more grammar, double the amount of sessions with their tutor, write more words in their notebooks and beg their brains to remember them.
That sounds exhausting. In reality, doing more of what you’ve been doing so far isn’t going to get you further.
What you need is a different approach.
An approach where instead of spending your precious free time on meaningless drill exercises and flash cards, you spend 20 powerful minutes a day diving into the language, crafting your accurate self-expression, in a way that helps you make French your own.
French Awareness is the elevator that gently gets you out of the muddy plateau.
- Without cramming more language books;
- Without sitting in front of your computer or in a classroom waiting for your turn to speak;
- Without even teaching you the language
French Awareness is the program that shows you how to teach yourself French, based on how the brain learns best.
French Awareness Gives You...
Inspiring Exposure
Forget about boring textbooks or reading the newspapers! I’ve got news for you : it’s been proven that the more curious, inspired, fascinated you are by a topic, the happier your brain is to try to make sense of it.
That’s why French Awareness is based on podcasts and videos around the themes of self-growth, wellness and self-improvement: highly personal topics with the potential to improve your life.
Meaningful Opportunities of Self-Expression
Have you ever noticed how the majority of your memories are connected to emotions? If you go back to your childhood for instance, you’ll easily remember the very good moments and the very bad ones. That’s because emotions help your remember.
In French Awareness, we use that to your advantage by giving you the opportunity to express yourself by writing and by speaking your thoughts and emotions on personal topics. That way, you created deep connections between the language and your identity.
Human Support & Corrections
I love solo learning, and I wish I could tell you that it was always enough. The truth is that at this point on your language learning journey, you’ need professional human support and corrections so you can develop a self-compassionate attitude and reach higher accuracy when you speak French.
French Awareness gives you access to a mindset coach and a French language coach, so you’re skillfully guided out of this plateau and towards learning autonomy.
FRENCH AWARENESS
It’s Perfect for You if...
You are learning French because you love the language, and you’re eager to dive deeper in the beauty of the French words, past the intermediate level at which you feel you’ve been stuck for a while. You’re ready to change your approach so you can get new results.
You’d love to be a solo learner, but right now you feel a bit lost and scared to do it alone : the myriad of online tools and possibilities make you feel overwhelmed, and you’re not quite sure you find them inspiring enough or adequate for you.
You love slowing down to think, reflect, journal on yourself and on life. Conversation is good when it’s real and authentic, about topics that matter for you. You love to discover and discuss ways to improve our experience on this planet, be healthier, happier and have more fulfilling lives.
If you can carve out 20 minutes a day, you’re about to have a wonderful experience with French Awareness.
Details
French Awareness is a 3-week 1:1 French language coaching program that is designed to help you gain a deeper understanding of the spoken French language in a natural and mindful way.
Through meaningful materials around the themes of wellbeing, self-discovery and self-growth that you’re invited to explore alone, you learn to extract new language awareness and include it in your personal expression; first in the written form and then out loud.
Completely asynchronous, you get to spend time with French when it suits you best. No more searching for hours to find what to do in French this week. We provide the materials to you, together with professionally-designed study guides.
Explore them at your own pace and submit your assignments to your coach for detailed feedback and corrections.
Let’s Explore
Semaine 1
Faut-il trouver ta mission de vie?
Watch the video by Élodie Leclerq, a Belgian-French life coach who tells us about the importance, or the non-importance, of finding your life mission. Explore your own thoughts and experience about it: have you found your life mission? What is our purpose, really?
Semaine 2
Tout est un choix
Listen to this podcast by Clothilde DuSoulier, a French coach that tells us about how absolutely everything in life is a choice. Listen to her arguments and decide for yourself : where can you bring more empowered choices in your own life?
Semaine 3
Comment oser dire non
On your path to authentic self-expression, you must learn how to say “no”. Watch a video by Arnaud Riou, a French chamanic teacher, who breaks it down for us. Tell tell your coach about your experience with people-pleasing and saying no.
How Much?
1 - A voice-chat coaching session
Book a chat with your mindset coach Jessica to discuss your French story, your goals, your blockages. Together, we’ll explore solutions and mindset reframes so you can enter the program with the best attitude and gain the best outcomes.
2 - A new material to explore every saturday
Get a new authentic and inspiring material and its study guide for you to explore. The videos and podcast episodes are rarely over 20 minutes so they fit into your life easily.
3 - short and stress-free assignments
Every week, share your writing with Anaïs, your French language coach, who will offer corrections and improvements that you can implement right away for your second assignment : record yourself discussing your thoughts out loud (2-3 min recordings). Your coach will help you improve your pronunciation with practical tips and give you a conversation question for spontaneous self-expression.
Price : 222€
Other Students Said...
I've learned with you for almost 3 years and it was pure joy.
I recall our first lesson when I barely could say a whole sentence and now I feel comfortable in French-speaking countries and I can discuss abstract topics. It became a habit to talk to you every week and discuss mindfulness and self-development. I'm really grateful for you, not only because you gave me so much and I learned a lot, but because you're pushing me to develop, to go forward. I'm ready now to become an actor on my language learning path and in my life and continue working by myself. I'd wish everyone to have a coach like you!
Valentina, Russia
I have been guided for two and half years in a journey of self exploration, which was completely unexpected when I started working with Jessica. I was initially simply looking to improve my French, but I was amazed at how exploring, challenging and describing my own emotional landscape, using mindfulness, produced all the linguistic improvements I was looking for, at the same time as giving me tools to daily boost my mental well-being at home and at work. Bravo.
James Thorpes, UK
Bonjour! Moi, c’est Jessica
I'm the founder of Bulle de Français. I design mindful learning programs & tools for intermediate French learners who are into self-growth & wellbeing.
I've always been fascinated by the way languages influence our identities and the way we see the world. Languages have been a wonderful tool for my own self-healing, and yet I've always dreaded spending hours learning about the language.
Instead I wanted to learn about myself, through the language.
I designed French Awareness with exactly that in mind: to allow learners like you explore a more mindful approach to themselves and to others thanks to the new lens that the French language offers. In this program, we shift completely from the goal-oriented mindset of traditional schools. French becomes a tool for your own personal growth, and your results become inevitable.
Salut! Moi c’est Anaïs!
I’ll be your French language coach :) I've been teaching French for over 10 years and my teaching approach is constantly evolving. That's why I love Jessica's programme French Awareness: learning through our own internal questionings and following universal interests of self-growth and self-improvement.
What I love the most about being a language coach is to help you find your own confidence. I have this natural enthusiastic approach to life and to learning, it’s quite contagious, you’ll see. It’s hard to not be motivated when you learn with me.
I’ll guide you along the way with practical language tips and clear explanations so your progress is inevitable. I can’t wait to meet you and work together.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the program run?
French Awareness is an asynchronous 1:1 program that runs through Google docs & WhatsApp. When you join, you receive an e-mail with a link to your specific Google file + the phone numbers of your coaches. On Saturdays, you’ll receive your new materials with a clear description of your assignments. You’re free to complete your tasks on your own time, but with a limit date for submitting them. Once you submit them to your coach, you’ll receive a feedback and corrections within 48h.
What level of French should I be?
The ideal level to join is intermediate : you can form sentences, express your thoughts, talk about the past, the present, the future. The fact that you make mistakes or that you’re hesitant is not important, but you must be able to form basic sentences and understand oral French. A good way to assess your level is to listen to my podcast Bulle de Français. If you’re able to understand 60% of what I say there, this is for you.
How long does it take?
You’ll need about 15 to 20 minutes a day for the duration of the program to make the most of it : explore the material, do the assignments, follow and integrate the feedback of your coach, etc. The French Awareness program lasts 3 weeks.
Will I have assignments?
Yes, 6 assignments in total, 2 per week. They don’t have to be perfect, you don’t have to spend hours doing them, but doing them is an essential part of the program.
What materials do I need?
A smartphone to talk to your coaches and a computer to complete your written assignments on Google docs (the link to your file will be provided for you). I would recommend having a notebook to take notes, and of course a nice warm drink to make it cozy :)
What will I get out of this Program
More awareness of the French language, and more awareness of yourself! You’ll stop wasting time looking for good-enough resources as we’re providing you with outstanding ones. You’re done second-guessing if you’ve said things correctly, we’re providing you with feedback and corrections. You kiss goodbye to self-doubt and self-loathing with your coaches combo-approaches : mindfulness, self-compassion, and a great deal of enthusiasm and confidence-boost!
Do I have to be online at a certain moment?
Not at all. There are some deadlines to respect in order to leave enough time to your coach to give you feedback and corrections, but you don’t have to be connected or in front of your computer for a Zoom call or anything like that.
Will there be conversation sessions?
Not in the traditional way. One of your assignments is to share out loud your thoughts and reflexions in a voice chat to your coach. In answer to that message, she’ll offer you with some pronunciation improvements if needed, and a follow-up conversational question to give you the opportunity of spontaneous expression.
How long does the program run?
The French Awareness program lasts 3 weeks. The next edition starts on May 4th, 2024.
What if I don’t like it?
If you’re having trouble enjoying the French Awareness Program for whatever reason, you can always contact us directly and we’ll be happy to help you. That said, if within 72 hours max of joining the program, you decided that this isn’t for you, contact me and I’ll offer you a full refund.
What if I want more than 3 weeks?
I was hoping you’d ask this question : French Awareness is a renewable experience, which means that there will be future editions of the program. After your first 3 weeks with us, if you enjoyed it and you want more, we’ll sign you up for the next round.
Enroll now.
Your program starts on May 4th, 2024