Sophie French Tutor

LET ME EXPLAIN:

Most people think that when they've lost their French, they need to rebuild everything from zero.

But the real issue is actually simpler: it's not lost — it's just rusty.

Because the French your brain absorbed over years of study doesn't disappear. It gets buried. And buried is very different from gone.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:
→ speaking before you feel "𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚"
→ stopping the wait to "𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕"
→ working with someone who knows exactly how to unlock what's already there

It's often much simpler than people think… you just need to put your energy in the right place.

If you want to figure out exactly where you are and what to do next, comment 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 and I'll send you the link to book a discovery call.

Do you know the word for 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐟 in French?

It's 𝐟𝐞𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞 — and the spelling will throw you off if you've never seen it before.

Watch the video, then tell me: can you say it?

How do you say 𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 in French? 🤔

It starts with a silent H, sounds nothing like it looks, and rhymes with the French letter R.

𝐇𝐢𝐞𝐫. Four letters. Two syllables. Zero excuses.

Save this so you never forget it. 💛

I hear this all the time from adults who learned French at school or uni.

But here’s the truth:

If you wait for perfect, you hesitate more.

And the more you hesitate, the less natural you sound.

Fluency comes from:
✔️ speaking even when it’s not perfect
✔️ staying in the conversation
✔️ getting small corrections over time (without losing confidence)

Comment 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐎 and I’ll send you the link to the 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨).

𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈’𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓👇

I wouldn’t start with a classic.

And I wouldn’t start with a book just because it’s “𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥”.

I’d start with a 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲.

(For me, that’s sci‑fi. For you, it might be thrillers, romance, whatever.)

Because when you already know the “rules” of the genre, your brain does a lot more guessing from context… and reading gets easier 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭.

Then I’d make it even simpler:
➡️ pick something accessible
➡️ stop using the dictionary every 10 seconds
➡️ focus on the story first

Comment 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 and I’ll send you the French Book Club info page.