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Hi, here is a short note about why I created this site and what is FrenchVoila all about. If you have any questions please do feel free to contact me.

I release a new French lesson everyday. 10 minutes of French, brought to you by me, Sophie, French teacher in Paris. You can listen to free daily MP3 podcast lessons and download Lesson PDFs (Transcript, English translation, Additional vocab…) directly on the website. You can study anywhere, anytime !

More details:

Fresh, Convenient & Effective French-language Training
FrenchVoila is an on-demand training product that enables users to learn French on their terms – when and where is most convenient for them. Listen to the free daily podcasts on your media device (iPod, MP3 player, phone, computer, etc). Use the Lesson PDFs to practice what you heard, review the key vocabulary and grammar points.

Why FrenchVoila ?
FrenchVoila combines the latest podcasting technology with a compelling communicative teaching method to bring you the world’s first on-demand language training program. FrenchVoila is a complete solution to learning to communicate in French. It solves the problems inherent in existing methods through a number of uniquely compelling features:
• FrenchVoila is ‘on-demand’. RSS syndication means that you receive daily FrenchVoila lessons automatically on your audio player. This allows you to take the lessons wherever you go – to the gym, on the bus, in your car, or at the dentist’s.
• FrenchVoila audio content is backed up by a complete series of transcripts, expansion vocab, and much more.
• FrenchVoila classes are designed and taught by a top expert in the field (Sophie :) with years of experience in Second Language Acquisition, communication studies, and classroom instruction.
• FrenchVoila lessons offer a complete program of study based on a communicative method, with little or no preparation for her.

Understanding Second Language Acquisition
Before you can produce sentences in a new language, you have to first begin to acquire it. The latest scientific studies indicate that Second Language Acquisition emerges through two things:
1. Targeted input: this allows the learner to engage with meaningful/graded/manageable input from the target language.
2. Fluency development through practice. Cognitive exercises and real communicative practice build fluency and consolidate the input.
Language acquisition is a natural, psychological process. There are no short-cuts and no method can circumvent the process. Too many people waste thousands of hours on unproductive French study because they lack this understanding.
Your French study is best spent on a motivational program that balances a steady stream of targeted input with follow up opportunities to use and apply it. FrenchVoila offers such a program. FrenchVoila provides you with manageable input, in the right form, and at the right time, and in copious quantities.

How does FrenchVoila provide the input ?
FrenchVoila provides you with a free audio lesson each day, delivered to your media device. Lessons are targeted to your needs, and delivered by a teacher with years of experience. The articles, dialogs, stories are meaningful, relevant, and rich in high frequency vocabulary. They offer cultural insights and practical information. Input is ‘top-down’, inductive, and cognitive, allowing you to think, discover meaning, and make the connections for yourself.

Hope you’ll like it!

Sophie