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Enrollment is now open for Franco-PHILE level members for 60€ per month, with a 2 week free trial available.

The first step is a short, relaxed chat with me on Zoom for me to assess that the conversation classes are suited to your level. Book yours below now. I will send you a link to sign up to the community following our chat.

Franco-FAN level will cost 5€/month or 40€/year.

Franco-PHILE level will cost 30€/month or 240€/year.

Franco-FANATIQUE weekly calls will cost 12€ per call.

Upgrade or downgrade your level at any time.

La question :

How do you smash through the dreaded intermediate plateau, and keep improving your French?

La solution :

Join forces with others learning French at your level!

Do you feel like your French progress has stalled?

The pace of beginner-stage learning was intoxicating.
That heady rush of learning new tricks, picking up new vocabulary every week.
You hoped you’d be chatting easily with French native-speakers in no time.
But listening to French speakers in full flow (at breakneck speed) still feels tough.
And you’re not picking up new things so quickly these days…

Welcome to the challenge of getting really good at French…

Here’s the secret: all intermediate French speakers feel their progress slowing down.

The words you need aren’t in the textbooks…

“I shouldn’t be making mistakes at this stage!” (False!)
“Genuine, easy conversation is out of reach for me…” (It’s not!)
“I started speaking French too late in life to get any better than this.” (Totally untrue…)
“Short of moving to France, I’ll never improve.” (Living in France is not the secret to better French!)
“I’ve hit my limit, and now I just hope I don’t get worse…” (Ne dis pas de bêtises !)

You feel frustrated, inadequate, and guilty for not working harder.

But I know you can do this. Because I’ve done it. And I’ve shown plenty of my students how to do it, too.

And I’m going to introduce you to an incredible community who will help you smash through those limiting beliefs.
Tu veux progresser, non ? Alors…

My biggest secret to improving your French:
seeking perfection is not the answer

The truth about le plateau intermédiaire is that only real-life practice, alongside a practical, pragmatic and goal-oriented study approach, will get your progress back on track.

You need new tricks, new tools, and new speaking partners…

Introducing:

The Confident French Speaker Community

CFSC membership includes…

Exclusive video lessons on grammar, speaking, studying and self-belief

Community support from other learners at your level

Group practice and study opportunities

Free regular live calls & exclusive access to a calendar of extra live lessons

Access to all of the content from my previous courses, Parlons Grammaire and Find Your French Confidence

TU PEUX

Start seeing real improvement you can track in as little as 7 days…
All the tools you need are in the lesson library…

Alex Barron, ton coach de français

📙 The lesson library will help you improve:

Your speaking skills so you can hop from topic to topic without fear or embarrassment, using a few key phrases and a fresh attitude to learning. (You can join in, even when you don’t have the vocabulary you think you need)
Your study success so you’re making the most of the time you put in to learning and improving your French, and tracking your intermediate progress (hint: it looks very different to beginner progress and requires a completely different approach)
Your grammar, so you can get to grips with the slippery technicalities of where to put le, lui, leur, y, en etc in sentences, the subjunctive, the major past tenses, relative pronouns que, qui, dont, lequel…
Your attitude…via the mental hacks every linguist needs to know to keep making progress.
I explain how to fine-tune your approach for maximum results, because confidence and self-belief is the key to seeing progress at the intermediate stage.

🔑 The community is key to your progress:

All members are highly-motivated intermediate French learners of different ages and from different countries.
You’ll get access to regular (every 2 weeks) Zoom calls to practise in real time, reinforce vocab and grammar, and socialise in French.
Opportunities to ask Alex questions and take part in exercises designed to keep everyone speaking and progressing.
24/7 access to the discussions on Discord, to share challenges, ask questions, and practise written French with each other.
A calendar of additional, affordable live events on specific grammar topics, which only CFSC members can book, keeping group size small, so your language progress can soar…

All led by a native English speaker who took his own French to the next level (just like you will…)

Qui est Alex ?

I’m a French language coach, YouTube video creator and native-English speaker with a passion for helping intermediate French-learners up their game.

I learned to speak fluent French as an adult (i.e. I’ve been where you are!)

Pourquoi le Confident French Speaker Community ?

I know first-hand what it’s like to feel like your French progress is slowing down in the intermediate stage…

New level, new devil, as the saying goes.

Or, to put it another way, your style of learning, as well as how you track and notice your own progress, has to change if you want to stay motivated. And to keep learning, motivation is key!

I wanted to offer my four-pronged approach (including my system to improve study, practical speaking tips, easy-to-follow grammar lessons, and self-belief coaching to boost confidence) to a dedicated group of French learners, in a new kind of setting.

I’ve learned through teaching many dedicated students that nothing beats time with other committed French learners to turbo-charge your progress.

What do you get inside the Confident French Speaker Community?

There are 2 niveaux of CFSC to choose from:

Franco-FAN members of CFSC receive:

Franco-PHILE members get:

A 60-minute group call every 2 weeks to practise live and face-to-face, led by me
The complete video lessons from two of my most popular and proven courses, covering four essential key areas of speaking, studying, grammar and self-belief
Access to a video library of over 100 video lessons (and growing) i.e. everything you need to improve in all aspects of learning French…

🗣 Speak better / Mieux parler

Speaking: practical, pragmatic tips for improving your spoken French

Including how to get more out of spoken French practice
What to do when you don’t have the vocabulary you need to join in a group conversation
How to get through a stalled conversation when you don't understand what your interlocuteury has said
How to ensure you use every opportunity to speak French for maximum impact on your learning

📚 Study better / Mieux apprendre

How to approach French study as an intermediate learner (it’s different than for a beginner!)
How to set goals for your study so that you can see progress at a rate that feels motivating
My personal, proven system (tested on myself and many of my 70+ students) for putting a time-limit on your goals (it works)
How to challenge yourself, remain consistent, but keep your spirits and motivation high
Plus how to use the accountability of a community to keep your progress moving forwards

🛠 Succeed at grammar / Réussir en grammaire

Use the in-depth grammar lessons and accompanying exercises to step your grammar up a level, including:

When to use the 3 most-used past tenses in everyday French
What les pronoms relatifs do in a French sentence
How to use your English brain as an advantage when choosing a pronoun
The logic behind verbs and expressions that help you decide which pronouns you need
The pronouns le, la, les, lui, leur, y, en, me, te, nous, vous, eux, elles, and more
Where to place different pronouns in a sentence according to strict rules
The rules and exceptions around forming the subjunctive
….& more!

🤩 Have self-belief / Avoir confiance en toi

Franco-FANATIQUES (calendar of one-off live calls):

A calendar of additional live events on specific grammar topics, which any Franco-PHILE level members can book
These will be very focused, small group practice sessions to grapple with specific grammar topics…
There will be homework to complete before the session and a plan letting you know which videos are relevant to the topic so you can study in advance…
I’ll get you using your new learning on the call so that you’re retaining that information by putting it into practice in a real life conversation
We’ll play games, do quizzes, and help each other through to get the maximum out of the live group setting
Only pay for the extra live calls you need...

Alors, ready to join the Confident French Speaker Community?

Put your name on the waiting list below to be part of the next round of invitations in January 2023!

Enrollment is now open for Franco-PHILE level members for 60€ per month, with a 2 week free trial available.

Franco-FAN level will cost 5€/month or 40€/year.

Franco-PHILE level will cost 30€/month or 240€/year.

Franco-FANATIQUE weekly calls will cost 12€ per call.

Upgrade or downgrade your level at any time.

Franco-FAN membership:

Franco-PHILE membership:

All of the above, PLUS…

Franco-FANATIQUE calls:

€12 per extra live call.
Only pay for the ones you use.

Here's what my students have to say:

Learn real French, not textbook French

"I don’t want to learn textbook French, I want to learn to speak the language French people actually speak. The whole point is to talk to people! And that’s what Alex is teaching.
He got me to use new language in a way that was personal to me, and that meant I was using the French I needed, to talk about my own life."

April Rather @messy_french_with_april

Group learning = maximum results…

"Having a one-hour conversation with other people speaking French at my level has seriously helped with my confidence."

Alim Bolar

"I love having a group to practise French with, but with the ability to bust out the English when necessary and say, I just can't seem to get this, can anyone help? And then sure enough, somebody else has thought of it in a different way, and something will click. That's why I love the group chat…

Also, Alex sets fantastic exercises on the live calls, and crowdsources the answers. You get everyone’s different thoughts, different ways of approaching the answers, and it helps so much with my learning. "

Claudine Dugan

…from a teacher-coach who remembers what it’s like to learn

"Alex remembers the hurdles for a native English-speaker learning French."

Vicky Popa

"Alex has patience, he doesn’t push, but he lets you think about it - even when I’m making big mistakes, he doesn’t make me feel stupid. And it helps that I can revert to English when I need to."

John Welsh

“He's very insightful. He is able to grasp what is confusing me and untangle it really quickly.”

Julie Plumbley

"When Alex is teaching he can tell why I’ve made a mistake, and where that mistake came from - so he addresses the English-speaking root of my mistake. I’ve never had a French teacher understand where I’m going wrong so well."

Franklin VanVolkinburg