Learning Languages with Lou

I am looking forward to starting my first adult group teaching post at St.Giles, Holborn this evening as part of Cactus Language Learning courses. I am delighted to be starting this part-time, autumn term course to further hone my teaching skills.

My former role at Pimlico Academy last term has held me in good stead for working with bigger groups and needing to adapt learning resources to all teaching and learning styles.

The course is a 10 week adult beginners course running from this week until Christmas.

I am excited to get started and meet my new pupils and colleagues!

https://www.languagecoursesuk.co.uk/course-outlines/french-course-outline/

French Course Outline : French Course Structure and Content French course outline for the Cactus 10-week gruop evening course in French. Grammar, skills and culture outlined for each level. Take our free online test.

Are you looking for a French tutor?

If so, I still have some slots for in-person tuition on a Monday between 11-4pm if you are based in Tooting, Clapham or Balham as I am based South West on Mondays!

Feel free to share with your network if you know of anyone looking for lessons. I also teach English and Italian.

Drop me a comment below or send an email to [email protected] to arrange a complimentary 15 minute assessment call.

This week, I am enjoying attending online conference talks as part The Language Career Summit by Kerstin Cable which is giving me lots of inspiration on how I want to grow my own language business Learning Languages with Lou.

As a French tutor, I always thought my business would simply be about 1:1 online tutoring, but I am bursting with ideas on putting online courses together, writing an e-book as a good lead magnet for when I build my website and refresh my branding in the coming months.

Find out more about the conference here- it is free to attend and jam packed full of useful and engaging content to take your ideas to the next level. My wonderful friend and fellow online business owner Dr Anneli Beronius Haake - Swedish Teacher is delivering a session on how to create reels and videos for Instagram!

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I am privileged to have been yet again been featured in The Language Professionals Networking newsletter sharing my thoughts on hard work, grit and resilience.

Have a quick read of my Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/eQg5jdvg

Our August 2022 Event: How to set healthy work-life boundaries In August, we connected language professionals through what we call ‘link-building networking’. The theme of this month was ‘How to set healthy work-life boundaries’. We invited languag…

Happy Friday everyone!

Here is some fun quiz trivia.

Do you know how many regions there are in metropolitan France?

Do you know the exam board for your teenagers school?

AQA and Edexcel are the two main GCSE French exam syllabuses. Lou tutors across both syllabuses. Whilst there are a lot of similarities, there are subtle differences in the mark schemes, assessment objectives, and overall framework.

If you need support understanding the syllabus, book a free 20-minute consultation with me to see how I can help you. Email: [email protected]

Happy Monday everyone!

We all need that daily dose of inspiration on our life learning journey.

Can you translate this philosophical quote?

Happy Friday everyone!

It's nearly the weekend- do you know how to say Saturday in French?

Put your answer in the comments.

This week, we are learning how to form the perfect tense.

You need to conjugate an auxiliary from either avoir or être (depending on the verb) and add a past participle.

Do you know how to conjugate the auxiliary here to say that I have made?

Put your answers in the comments below.

Books are your best friend on our learning journey together.
We can learn a lot by reading a little each day to develop our cultural and linguistic understanding.

It's nearly le weekend!

How has your week been? Here is a bit of Friday quiz fun to help you on your language learning journey through making word associations. Even if you don't always know what the word is, we can have a good guess through connecting it to other words in the sequence!

I have just started with a complete new beginner to learning French.

I highly recommend this textbook for consolidating basic spoken and written French.

My client is completing mini exercises outside of our sessions together and is really seeing their confidence and fluency grow significantly!

Motivation is like a light switch- we can turn it on and off.

Sometimes, there are days where we just want to give up and not try anymore and this is all part of human nature.

The motto for today is to keep going even when no-one is watching- people don't always shower us with praise and compliments but they can be quietly admiring your progress and fortitude!

Happy Friday everyone!

It's the start of the weekend and let's end the week on a high!

How do you say the below phrase in French?

Put your answers in the comments below.

Today is Words Wednesday. There are multiple tenses in French that we have to master as part of our language learning journey.

We are looking at the present tense this week. Do you know how to say 'Je fais' in English?

Put your answers in the comments below.

C'est lundi!

We all need a bit of Monday inspiration to get our week off to a strong start.

Language learning is about taking 90% inspired action. As I say to all my students, you can go a long way with blocking 10-15 minute mini-lessons every day!

We are now entering the month of March and spring blossoms will hopefully soon be appearing.

Do you know all your seasons in French?

Pop your answers in the comments.

Did you know Lou runs conversation classes for adults?

Today, I am starting with a complete adult beginner who has enrolled on a 12-week course with me to learn French for their holidays in the summer!

Whatever we do in life and business, there are no shortcuts to success.

Success takes daily consistency, hard work, and effort to reach our goals.

Language learning is all about daily learning in small chunks to achieve bigger fluency goals!

What are you up to this weekend?

Tell me your plans in French in the comments below.

Today is words Wednesday.

Can you spot the odd word out in the sequence?

Pop your guesses in the comments.

Happy Saint Valentine's day?

What are you doing to celebrate today?

I am delighted to announce to my followers that I am joining the language department at Pimlico Academy on 21st February as a French Language Assistant.

I will be working with KS3 GCSE pupils to improve their confidence in spoken and written French.

I can't wait for the challenge ahead!

Lou is looking for a group of 5 youngers aged 8-11 years old so that she can start running the weekly homework club again!

I receive a lot of 1:1 requests but run this as a group programme on Wednesdays 4-5pm.

Participants pay a discounted rate of £15 per session. To sign up, please email [email protected]

French is one of the most famous languages in the world for it's ancient proverbs and philosophical wisdom!

Here is a quote to get your brain going this Monday!

Happy Friday everyone!

Can you tell me your weekend plans in French?

Put your answers in the comments.

Today is Words Wednesday!

Can you guess the odd word out in the sequence below?

Pop your answers in the comments below.

We all need to remind ourselves of the why behind our goals otherwise motivation is very hard to sustain!

We all have dreams in our heads but it takes patience, hard work, and motivation to put those dreams into action.

Here is a little motivational quote to lift us up this Monday.

Just a reminder that places are filling up quickly on Lou's 12-week beginner course. There are no spaces left on the group programmes but Lou has the capacity to take on 1-2 private 1:1 clients for 1-2 hours per week.

If you sign up by midnight on 31st January, you can take advantage of the new year discount!

To sign up, send me a DM or email [email protected] with 'French Beginners 12-week course-January discount' in the subject line.

I look forward to welcoming you onto my course soon!

Lou includes resources from the below revision sites for GCSE French tuition. Here are her top 5 online recommendations to visit regularly and consolidate knowledge in all four skill competence areas; listening, reading, speaking, and writing.

1. BBC Bitesize.
2. Revision World
3. Light Bulb Languages.
4. TES Resources.
5. Past Paperz.