My stepdaughter is in grade 5.. and for the past few years her immersion teachers haven’t done any grammar work.. and this year she has a HARDCORE French teacher.. but he isn’t really explaining verb tenses etc. I’m looking for some resources I can use at home to support her growth and feel more confident in class.

Hey r/FrenchImmersion ! I’ve built an app that lets you practice speaking in French with an AI language tutor. Personally, I’ve tried to learn languages and found that a lot of apps don’t do a great job at helping you learn to speak (cough duolingo). I have an engineering background so I thought I’d go ahead and try and make a resource to help with this. Try it out and let me know what you think! Here’s the link ➡️ https://www.convo.ing

Current features:

• Scenario based learning: Dive into specific scenarios to target your learning
• Freestyle mode: Chat with an AI tutor in a customisable mode where you decide what to talk about
• Feedback: Targeted feedback to improve your grammar
• Multilingual speech recognition: Ask a question in english about {target language}
• Audio control: Ability to replay audio and control speed and volume of playback
• Suggestions: Never run out of things to say with suggested responses
• Translations: If you get stuck, just translate messages into English
• Objectives: Use the objectives provided as a guide for your conversation

Future features:

• Transliteration: Phonetic pronunciation of scripts that do not use English alphabet
• Mic continuity: More like a real conversation where you don’t need to press a button before each message
• Visualisations: Improved visual features such as audio sound-wave and transitions

Any feedback is greatly appreciated! 🙌

Nayan

Bonjour ! Former French Teacher from Ontario here. I know that the school year has just begun, but for those whose kiddo has been in the French Immersion program for at least two years, I wanted to provide you with a resource to help open the lines of communication with your child's French Immersion Language Teacher and to help you determine if they are in fact excelling in the program:

https://www.fairesens.ca/post/excelling-in-the-french-immersion-program

That said, if you have any questions or need additional support, do not hesitate to ask, as there may be another parent, guardian, or caregiver thinking the same thing.

On that note, I wish your child(ren) all the best on their language learning journey this academic year!

🍎 I’m an experienced French tutor who can help you or your child succeed this year! Contact me by DM for details!

There is an amazing French school in Waterloo that offers free bus service and has before and after daycare opportunities. École élémentaire catholique Mère-Élisabeth-BruyèreIF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I WILL GLADLY TRY MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM!Check out their facebook page and give them a callhttps://www.facebook.com/ecoleMEB

I have been accepted to Sorbonne University but due to family problems I will not be able to attend the classes this year. I have duly registered for the university. Do you know if I could keep my place for next year?

I have full French course by Damon Dominique. Anyone interested in splitting the cost with me?

If you switch your child to English stream in a French Immersion school, do they let you stay or send you to your home school based on the boundaries?

From one of the products my brother bought to start on his son (my nephew) on education in foreign languages.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fdppq03n0osgd1.jpeg

For context, that card basically came from this device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpzGz_i1Lk

Specifically the card came from the set for learning French. Which makes me wonder because googling translations in French, "bille" doesn't bring up images of pinball using the Google French search engine but instead brings up images of balls and using Google translates the default translation from French to English is "flipper". Wikipedia's articles states pinball is known as electric billiards in France. So far this toy is the only area I seen where pinball is translated as bille in French.

Can anyone clarify if the game really is called bille in France? Or is this educational toy incorrect about this translation? As stated earlier I cannot find any other source that refers to pinball as bille in the French language so I'm wondering whats the source educational product translating the game as that word from English.

So i have a big problem with writing in french, like i can't get the word spelled correctly, and i find it difficult to learn it, do people memorize the words by heart, because i find it very difficult to do so, and i make a lot of mistakes with vowels, like for writing "transfert" i wrote "trensfert" because i hear it like "ro" but i know that's not an "o", from where did "a" became like "o" or "e" sound, for "maintenant" i hear it like "maintent" so from where the "ant" come, "étudiant" for "étudient", and i find that french have the worse spelling and the worse rules ever, so can someone help on how to learn writing form listening to someone speak or from memory. (sorry for my english)

Hi all,

I was in French immersion from kindergarten through to grade 12 (and went on to minor in French translation in university, while majoring in a 3rd language).

While I'm grateful for getting second language education beginning at a young age, to this day I often find surprising gaps in my ability to use French in real life situations. I'm curious how similar this may be to other people's experience on here.

Par exemple: I understand most everything I hear in French, as long as it's not extremely technical or extremely casual/slang (which I found is similar to languages I learned at other stages of my life). But I'm very self conscious of my own grammar when I speak or write - I know that I'm misusing words, particularly prepositional phrases, where there's no actual logic I can use to select the right connecting word - it has to be either memorized or instinctual, and I feel like I just never got that instinct and have struggled to memorize.

The other MASSIVE gap, which I notice the most, is the kind of formal/business register that comes from being surrounded by other adults speaking the language. Sure, there are some words I know better in French than in English (cahier, tapis, dictée) - but I immediately feel like a fish out of water in settings like job interviews, writing a formal letter, etc. (I didn't know the word "veuillez" until university!)

It makes me feel a bit like a child playing dress up as a grown-up, lol. I'm not complaining - I know that there are things I could do, courses specific to business French, etc. But I sometimes wish there had been a bit more preparation in my classes, maybe in middle school or so, for how to interact better in French with the non-child, non-school world. It feels like an understandable but interesting side effect of being "immersed" in French at school, but in English everywhere else in your life as you learn to navigate the world around you at various stages of life.

How about you? What do you feel French immersion prepared you for well, and what areas do you feel were most overlooked?

I am looking for Comprehensible Input, similar to Dreaming Spanish, for French. Are there some good video series for A1 learners? I would probably need 25-50 hours of that input to get to A2 videos and so on... I'd also like the videos to be good for my kids. I'd like us to be able to get to B1 or so, so we can watch cartoons in French. Thanks for your help!

I finished the Rosetta Stone German course last month in a timeframe that took me 4 months to finish and am wrapping up the French course with only 3 lessons left. English is my primary English.........

When I started the French course at the beginning of this month........ I was breezing through the courses! In fact if I didn't slack off, I'd been done days ago. Where as taking German was so difficult and took me at least 3 months with me retaking a lot of the lessons because I kept failing, with French in Rosetta Stone I only had to take each and every lesson once!

The reason I bring this up is........ The hardest part about learning German was the grammar especially its emphasis on three genders and conjugation rules..... When I was going through French lessons it felt like a large sense De Ja Vu. taking the grammar tests I felt like I am seeing so many familiarity stuff in conjugations and structures of the sentences especially regarding gender pronouns and the rules surrounding these. Like I'd quickly get the place of despues and the adverb that follow nous, etc. All simply because a lot of the conjugated forms reminded me of the spelling changing of German verbs during conjugations with different pronouns and the placement of said pronouns even though French and German grammar was at the core dramatically different with different core structures. Despite the massive differences showing they're from two far separate families, I felt so much at home learning the French rules even though the grammar was obviously different upon first glance........

But even far more apparent is how unbelievably %$!%ing similar so much of French vocabulary is to English. Lots of time I immediately knew the English word for a new French word without even having to go through the Rosetta Stone read through and sampling exercises just by how similar French words are to their English counterparts. Like for example when I saw bœuf before I even saw the image of cooked beef and heard it being pronounced I quickly guess beef and selected the correct answer. Ditto with L'avion and L"aeroporte and porc and so many words. Don't even get me started at how many French words are literally spelled the same as in English like menu and ocean.

So am I wondering if I'm alone in seeing this? People who took German first and grew up in an Anglophone country, have you notice this extreme ease of transition into French? People whose first language is German (esp those of you who grew up in Germany and Austria) and learned English first before learning French do you also feel the same way? For people whose primary language is French have you noticed the same way about learning English first and then German? How about vice versa?

I'm really super curious about this because honestly how easy learning French after taking German has been is so spooky and eerie its literally supernatural!

Hi everyone! We've created a language exchange group with three chats in Spanish, French and Portuguese. If you speak any of these languages either natively or by learning, you're more than welcome to join us! The group has no fixed topic and we'll be discussing everything from daily life and memes to technology, science, philosophy and politics! Potentially also finding friends!

The link to the chat‌ : @ Locutorium [Search the name on Telegram's search bar or type it with a @ and click on it!]

Hi everyone, I have a child who is about to start French Immersion, but he doesn't have much French knowledge yet. English is his second language, so French will be his third language. I'm looking for free apps or resources for Android or computer that can help a five-year-old learn and improve his French before starting kindergarten. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! I understand that for French Immersion, there is no requirement for a child to know any French beforehand. However, I am concerned that if he doesn't make sufficient progress in learning French, he might be dismissed from the French Immersion program and switched back to the regular English stream. That's why I want him to know as much French as possible before starting. Thank you!

LEARNING LANGUAGES AS A DEAF PERSON Hey! As a way to record my progress while learning languages -in this case, French - I decided to create a Youtube channel to upload "weekly" videos (I'm not that constant, though). It has been an interesting process, considering that I'm almost deaf, so this is a huge challenge, that I want to overcome. Pronunciation has been hard, but that's why I had payed much more attention to it, but in French I still have a lot of work to do. So, if you want to follow the process, or if you speak French and want to help me out with some tips, I'd appreciate that. Here's the last video: https://youtu.be/_SVbn6AyXrs?si=2PK9d9ib-TZ-h9Pv

Hello I am French and I created a discord server with only tbdl, if you want to join, I invite you to DM me.

Does anyone know what daycares are French language within the city of Chicago? Lycée français accepts older kids and I've heard of one that takes 6 month olds, but I'm not sure what it is called. Any recommendations are appreciated!

https://preview.redd.it/jwhxkbuseg4d1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=3dc4a7dea95c4597d9d337121afeb064fa687d95

This podcast episode helps educate other teachers and parents the benefits of French Immersion education.If you got friends or family members who aren't sure if French Immersion is for them, I think this episode does a great job with highlighting some of the awesome things French teachers are doing in the classroom. Share and give it a listen!

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-teacher-hotline/id1560878917?i=1000657621442

Bonjour à tous,Je m'appelle Sandro et je suis étudiant portugais en train d'apprendre le français. Pour mon projet scolaire, je fais une étude sur la connaissance des clubs de football portugais par les Français.Je vous invite à remplir un petit questionnaire, même si vous n'êtes pas fan de football. Chaque réponse est importante pour moi! Je vous remercie beaucoup à tous ceux qui répondront.🙏

https://forms.gle/zCWVcKpRsYEPqtWE8