My loves
My love for education and multi-cultural environments started at a very young age! I myself come from a multi-cultural family and for me, speaking foreign languages and adapting to people from other cultures come as second nature!
Throughout my career, I have been able to enjoy:
- Multi-cultural environment – what I studied at university to help businesses thrive in multicultural environments. I strongly believe you cannot go anywhere without thoroughly understanding other people and their angles of perception.
- Education – I have always educated in some form or another. First teaching English to children in France, then teaching health professionals as part of my marketing roles, teaching French in children in the UK and being a Cats Protection education speaker.
My style
Structured, calm, caring, warm, inventive, adaptable, fun, different.
Teaching inside, outside, at the terrace of a café or online. Baking cakes, enjoying a nice croissant for a morning lesson and sharing all the best that France has to offer.
What I like
Cooking, walking in the woods, spending times with the people I love and feel happy with, learning and seeing new things.
I am also trained in sophrology, a life coaching technique.
The 3 most important steps to learn
Step 1 – What to say (grammar)
The first step, learning the vocabulary and acquiring some basic grammar so that you can build your sentence properly.
But, if you make mistake and your sentence is not grammatically perfect, this is fine!
This is often an issue I face with my students, they are so paralysed by not speaking perfectly that they never try….
Go for it! Have faith in you! Because, it is not all about the what you say…
Step 2 – When to say it (culture)
Have you ever had the feeling to have spoken out of term and be totally mortified because of it, or as we say in French ‘être à côté de la plaque’.
Well, what is acceptable in the UK may not be in France and when to say it will also be different.
Do you really understand why French people behave the way they do, so that you can then behave accordingly and avoid misunderstandings?
Step 3 – How to say it (pronunciation)
Are you answering like an English person or like a true French person? Some will automatically be identified as a very good speaker and when some will clearly be identified as an English person with basic French. Pronounciation is absolutely crucial and too often ignored.
Why on top of it, you cannot understand the French spoken? Well, we do speak quickly and short hand our sentences! But that's fine, you can learn that!
La Souris Verte – why such a name?
La Souris verte is based on the name of one of the most famous baby French rhyme, ‘une souris verte’ created during the French Revolution.
It was one of my favourite rhyme when I was a child and has remained a rhyme that I remember fondly. It is obviously the first one I started to sing to my baby!
This song strongly reflects our mission, teaching French by teaching France.
You can check out the song here.