by Emilie | 8-06-2022 | Education, News BilingualChildrenLearning FrenchSummer
While Summer is around the corner, parents don’t always want to look for vacation notebooks or struggle to get their children to read, or beg them to please spend ten minutes a week on a smart app… Good news! I suggest that you look at things from another... 
by Emilie | 18-03-2022 | Education, News BilingualLearning FrenchSummer 2022Summer Camps
Go out, get some fresh air, meet new people and make new friends in a bilingual environment! It’s all doable during the 2022 Summer. Here are some of the solutions available to your kid to learn French and so much more. San Francisco and Marin County The... 
by Emilie | 24-01-2022 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In BilingualChildrenFrench movies with subtitlesLearning French
Updated in Sept. 2023 : What better and more convenient way to progress in a foreign language than to watch films or series in their original version? This is probably what you did if you challenged yourself to speak a foreign language different from your mother... 
by Emilie | 11-01-2022 | Education, News Aspiring JournalistBilingualFrench-speakingTeenager
French Bridge is presenting the second edition of its contest for French-speaking teenagers living in North America on the theme: the colors of the world; use one or more colors to describe the world you live in! French Bridge, a non-profit created in March 2020, is a... 
by Emilie | 14-12-2021 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In Alliance FrançaiseBilingual schoolsLearning French
(Updated Feb. 2023) – I suggest helping you find your way among the various schools with approved bilingual programs, preschools, online French lessons, non-profit for teenagers, football, dance, chaplaincy… in the San Francisco Bay area. Here is a... 
by Emilie | 8-11-2021 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In BilingualBook in FrenchReading in FrenchTeenagers
In this selection for teenagers from 9th grade (3ème) to 12th grade (Terminale), I have deliberately chosen not to include the great classics like “L’écume des jours”, “Vipère au poing” or “La gloire de mon père ”. You probably don’t need me to remember... 
by Emilie | 18-10-2021 | Education, Schools, Settle In BilingualEducationLiterature
Here is the third article in a series of four in which I suggest ten French books for your pre-teen to read from 6th grade (6ème) to 8th grade (4ème). The two previous are targeted at children from K-2, and from 3rd to 5th grade. I chose these books for the diversity... 
by Emilie | 11-10-2021 | Education, Schools BilingualChildrenFrench LanguageLitterature
Here is the second article in a series of four in which I suggest ten books for your child to read from CE2 (3rd grade) to CM2 (5th grade). Click here for the first article K-2. I chose these books for the diversity of the topics covered, for the richness of the...
