Is your child in a French Immersion class?

I’ll bet that sometimes you wonder why you enrolled them:

• Do you feel left out and sometimes don’t understand what your child is saying?

• If they are having difficulty you may think: ‘How can I help my child? I’m in no position to do so.’

The good news is…

Your child is certainly becoming bilingual. Did you realize that you can piggy-back on your child’s French education (for free!) and become bilingual too?

How can you do that?...

First you have to acknowledge that you won’t speak fluent French overnight, but over time you can and will.

By having a child in French Immersion, you have 24x7 access to a French speaker. When children learn they don’t try to understand pronunciation like adults do, they just repeat accurately what the teacher says. As an adult, you need to know why a string of letters is pronounced in a way that doesn’t make sense to you. This is why I created my PDF Introduction to French Pronunciation (see posts below).

Once you understand French pronunciation mechanics, you’ll feel happier and more confident, and your child will sense it and benefit from it. Then, your focus can shift to learning new vocabulary words and phrases and before you know it you’ll be pretty good in French!