Emily · Student journeyFrom advanced to sounding truly native
Australian speech therapist, already B2 after sitting the French ATAR, and a constant consumer of French media, podcasts and travel. The goal is no longer basic grammar: it's natural fluency, idiomaticity, oral register and the precise nuance to speak about her field and her life like a native.
- Australian · speech therapist
- B2 · sat the French ATAR
- Goal: native-level fluency
- 1 lesson / week
The positioning
Not more rules, more real French
Emily already builds correct sentences. What she wanted was the linguistic material to sound like a native and to express complex ideas, psychology, therapy, society, everyday life, emotional nuance, with genuine spontaneity. So every lesson pushes toward authentic, spoken French and away from the textbook.
How a lesson runs
Three pillars, every time
1 · Keep talking
A conversational warm-up and anecdotes, then open questions with real potential for argument and nuance, around a short video, article or audio clip.
2 · Feed the language
Targeted lexical and idiomatic input: the authentic turns of phrase and connectors that carry a real conversation.
3 · Fix & follow up
A 15-minute language point: deconstructing English calques (faux amis, structures) and shifting from neutral to spoken, informal French.
The 20-lesson arc
A programme shaped around her
Themes
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Where she is now
Emily is turning a solid, correct French into a living one, idiomatic, nuanced and spontaneous, so she can talk about her patients, her life and the culture she loves exactly as a native would.
Questions tuned to her interests
Qui est LE prof dont tu te souviendras toute ta vie ? (The teacher you'll remember forever?)
Décris-moi ta skincare routine du moment ! (Your current skincare routine?)
Une valeur que tu veux absolument transmettre à ton enfant ? (A value you want to pass on?)
Authentic expressions
Mettre de côté (to set aside / save)
Prendre sur soi (to take upon oneself)
Remuer le couteau dans la plaie (To rub it in)
Real native vocabulary
Faire la poussière (to dust)
Lancer / vider le lave-vaisselle (to run / empty the dishwasher)
Faire la lessive (to do the laundry, the whole process)
The everyday native vocabulary that isn't in books, and that AI often mistranslates.
Already advanced, but want to sound native?
When you're already B2, the work shifts to idiom, register and nuance, exactly what we do with Emily. Book a trial lesson and let's find your last mile.