The method
No classrooms.
No worksheets.
No nonsense.
Three steps, fully bespoke, built around what you actually need French for. Not around what a textbook committee decided in 1987.
Step by step
How it actually works
Step One
The Chat
A free, 15-minute phone call. No agenda, no awkward sales script. I want to understand three things: where your French actually is right now, what you need it for, and whether working together makes sense.
If you've barely touched French since a GCSE in 2003, that's fine. If you're intermediate but freeze the moment someone replies at real speed, that's also fine. I was there once. I know exactly what that feels like.
If for whatever reason I'm not the right fit, I'll tell you. I'd rather point you somewhere useful than take money for something I can't deliver properly.
Book the Free ChatStep Two
The Coaching
Private, 1-hour sessions built entirely around your goals and no one else's. No generic curriculum. No textbook exercises. No passive watching while someone else demonstrates something. Every session is a conversation.
The first thing we work on is the accent. Get that right and French people stop switching to English. They speak back to you in French. That is when the real learning starts, because then you have no choice but to keep up. That's how I became bilingual, and it's the fastest route I know.
I'll tell you when something sounds off, explain why French speakers say it differently, and give you the tools to self-correct naturally over time. Sessions happen over a coffee or a drink. That's not a gimmick. It is genuinely how language is best absorbed.
Travel French
Airports, hotels, restaurants, transport, navigating the unexpected
Business French
Meetings, calls, emails, negotiations, professional small talk
Relocation French
Admin, utilities, healthcare, socialising, dealing with bureaucracy
Everyday French
Shopping, markets, dinner tables, making friends, holding your own
Step Three
The Results
Results don't always arrive in dramatic, movie-montage fashion. More often they arrive quietly: the first time you follow a whole conversation without losing the thread, or order something and understand the reply without asking them to repeat it three times.
Then they compound. The confidence builds, the reflex kicks in, and the internal monologue that used to scramble every sentence starts to quiet down.
The goal is FluentISH. Not academic, not perfect, but real. The kind of French that makes locals answer you in French instead of switching to English to put you out of your misery.
Availability is limited by design.
Every student gets consistent, focused, genuinely personalised attention. That only works if the number of students is kept deliberately small. If you're considering it, the time to check is now.
Check Current AvailabilityQuestions
Frequently asked
And a few that aren't asked frequently, but probably should be.
Do I need any French at all before I start?
No. Absolute beginners are welcome. If you did a bit of GCSE French two decades ago, that counts as something, honestly more than you'd expect. If you have literally zero French, we start from zero. The only requirement is the willingness to actually speak rather than just listen to someone else do it.
Where do sessions take place?
In-person sessions in Horwich or Westhoughton are the default, and there's a strong argument that conversation practice should happen in a real environment rather than through a screen. Online sessions are also available where geography or schedule genuinely requires it. We'll sort that on the free call.
Is there homework?
Not in the traditional sense. You'll never be handed a worksheet or made to feel guilty for not conjugating verbs in your spare time. I'll often suggest ways to keep the French ticking over between sessions: a film, a podcast, a phrase to practise. All optional. All low-pressure.
How quickly will I see results?
Most students notice a shift within the first few sessions. Not fluency, but a loosening. The anxiety around speaking starts to ease. From there, progress depends on frequency and starting point, but conversational confidence tends to move faster than people expect once they're actually practising conversation rather than memorising vocabulary lists.
Can I book a one-off session rather than committing to a course?
There's no minimum commitment beyond the free initial chat. Sessions are booked individually at £40 each. Regular sessions are genuinely how progress happens, since language builds on itself. But we can talk about what makes sense for your goals on the free call.
What if I'm terrible at languages?
Almost nobody is actually terrible at languages. Most people who think they are had a bad teacher, a method that didn't suit them, or a particularly bruising experience in a restaurant. Those are environmental problems, not cognitive ones. The free chat exists partly to figure out what's actually going on.
Ready to start speaking?
Book the free 15-minute chat. No commitment. No credit card. Just a conversation about getting you to FluentISH.
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