A Simpler Way to Start French This Year

My favorite meal of the day whenever I'm in France is breakfast. At home, I'm usually a protein and eggs and dairy kind of girl because I hate feeling hungry before lunchtime. 🐷

But for some reason, a cup of tea and a tartine (crusty baguette with butter and jam) is the most deliciously satisfying meal that keeps me energized for all the walking I will do until our pause déjeuner (lunchbreak).

It's simple, beautiful, satisfying, and supremely delicious.

For years, even while being a trained French teacher, I hesitated teaching French to my own kids because I was overcomplicating it. The lesson planning alone frightened me because the work felt daunting. And I was essentially afraid of the burden of creating a Michelin star 3-course meal, when all we really needed was a simple, nourishing breakfast.

And then I remembered that the whole goal of home education was not to produce a certain performance outcome in my children (becoming bilingual), but to provide for them a feast of learning that would nourish them from the inside out. Why didn't I see teaching French the same way?

Fast forward several years and here we are, at almost the 1-year anniversary of launching my French Feast Course! It is exactly what I wish existed when I was struggling to get started.

🙅🏻‍♀️ No worksheets or quizzes of grammar drills

🙅🏻‍♀️ No long lists of vocab or memorizing useless phrases on apps

🙅🏻‍♀️ No burden of lesson planning

🙅🏻‍♀️ No frustration with the mystery of French pronunciation

Instead, I've honed in on what is most important. Like the quintessential French breakfast. Instead of a long list of unnecessary ingredients, the French Feast is simple, beautiful, easy to incorporate, and gets you to actually speak French meaningfully as a family.

But simple doesn't mean less valuable. It takes skill and care to grow the wheat, bake the bread, churn the butter and harvest the fruit for the jam. And in the same way, I've created the lessons as if to be your own in-home chef, preparing every lesson to be a nourishing meal for the soul.

In my course, the ingredients are: meaningfully spoken French, music, art, culture, and Scripture. And what happens when you consume them as a meal is a family who speaks French while connecting together over truth, goodness, and beauty.

Your job is to set the table and enjoy. Are you ready to make 2026 the year you will become French-speakers?

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