Raise your Children With a French Accent

Our team has just released this 50+ pages e-book with French-English Scenarios of Daily Life in France, Vocabulary, chidren songs and poems
with Audio Links

Why this book?

Moving to a foreign country with children is quite a venture and you may be asking yourselves questions such as:

“-Will my children adapt to the new life style and the new school system?

-Will they make friends?

-Will they panic when they don't understand what is being told to them?”

It can bring about fear and hesitation, but it seems that most children adapt quite well and often even better than their parents. They learn the language, develop a social life and acquire new habits surprisingly quickly.

In order to help future expatriate families or those who have recently moved to France, with learning the French language found in typical situations, and in order to reassure parents about the fact that children do integrate quickly in their new environment, we have created this informative and educational e-book. You will find a compilation of articles both in French and English on the education and cultural differences in France; experiences related by expatriate families; typical everyday French scenarios in school, social and different family situations; French songs and children's stories that parents can discover together with their children.

One of the most difficult and challenging aspects involved in learning another language is gaining a real understanding of the day-to-day usage. Many books accompanied with CDs offer listening comprehension exercises, but the scenarios or conversations are not always on situations that you would actually find yourself in on a daily basis when living in France. In these scenarios, we include up-to-date and useful vocabulary based on real life situations. In order to train your ear to the sound of French, we have added audio links to each scenario so that you can listen to it repeatedly.

How to start?

Download the pdf book to your computer. Then you can either read it on your computer or print any pages you wish. To listen to the French audio files, you need to be connected online. They can also be downloaded in an MP3 format for Ipods or other MP3 players.

How to use it?

If you are learning French on your own, we would suggest that you pick a scenario of interest to you and follow the following 5 steps process:

1) Listen to the scenario without reading it in order to try to understand as much as you can.
2) Then, listen to it while reading the scenario. Pay attention to the sound of every word and try to figure out the meaning of the conversation.
3) Listen to it one more time without reading it in order to try to recognize some words that you could not identify the first time you read it.
4) Then compare it to the English version.
5) Once you have understood the meaning of every sentence, listen to it again in order to focus once more on the sounds of the syllables and to pay attention to the liaisons in between words.

For the vocabulary sections, we would suggest that you repeat every single word out loud.