Welcome to The French Journey. The site is designed to support your French learning as if it were a journey and this site were the map, hotel or road taking you further or helping you to rest; but only as a support – you choose the pace. I’ll be using diagrams, sounds, video clips, postcards or any other interactive way I can come up with. All suggestions are welcome and please go comment crazy, we’ll all benefit from that.
The author of the site will be me, Luke. I hope that my native English will be able to clearly explain many of the more complex aspects of the French language and help you to tackle the common pitfalls that I’ve noticed learners, myself included, have. I will also be sharing some of the tips of those that find language learning easy, often skills that can be applied to other forms of study.
My own experience involves starting to learn French at a young age, in Canada (although born in England) and then continuing to enjoy it, possibly because of the ego-boost the headstart gave me or just because language learning was pleasurable for me in general. I got the chance to take my French to a much higher level when I went to university in France and sat in labs repeating all the sounds looking at simple diagrams of complex grammar rules, had French literature and art put before me day in and day out for three years. Then came the translation classes, the business classes, the work in French businesses and a whole host of other experiences which I now wish to share with you. But I’m only trying to convince you that I can help you along your French journey, I’ll leave the rest of that judgement* up to you.
I now work as a freelance translator and am forging a career out of languages. So join in and we can help each other.
*All spelling in this blog will be in British English, unless I slip up, then the first person to notice wins a prize.
