The French Jungle
I arrived to Geneva, Switzerland many years ago and learning French was a real struggle. This podcast is my quest to finding new ways of learning and teaching this most beautiful but exasperatingly precise language. Can French language teaching be done differently?
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 8
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Improving your French pronunciation in times of the pandemic
French pronunciation may seem quite a challenge if you have recently arrived to Geneva. But trying to pick up the language during the pandemic when our everyday life has been reduced mostly to our h…
Learn French with the Gentleman Voleur, Arcène Lupin
Learning French is so much fun when you do it while watching the captivating and really cool new French series, Lupin - Dans l'ombre de Arsène.
This episode of the French Jungle not only encourages y…
The 5 killer topics most French people love to talk about
Making small talk in French is far from easy because people in Switzerland are private, reserved and not very keen on chatting to strangers in general. This is why finding the right things to talk ab…
Small talk in French: the 5 taboos
As foreigners, we want to make new Swiss friends after arriving in Switzerland and many people find this quite a challenging task. One of the reasons is that we do not understand the secret rules tha…
Winning strategies to learn French
Are you stuck learning French? Have you tried learning the language of Voltaire on and off a couple of times without making real progress? If so, you are probably stuck in the Fear Zone. Take a liste…
When you are too shy to speak French
In this episode of The French Jungle I explore and share with you how my shyness was a real obstacle in the path of speaking French. It took many years to overcome it and three secrets helped me on t…
FIDE: the upside down language classroom
I hope last week I made you all curious about in what way the French Jungle is going to make you speak French fast. Take a listen to the answer.
Where it all began
The French Jungle is more than a project. It is an experiment into finding new ways to help immigrants learn French in Geneva. And here is the story of where it all began.