by Emilie | 5-09-2023 | Education, News, Schools, Settle In Back to SchoolBilingualFrench
For parents whose children are bilingual, a crucial question arises every year at the start of the new school year: How can they encourage their offspring to become fully bilingual? It’s a lifelong journey until it becomes not only part of their history but also...
by Emilie | 29-11-2022 | Education, Schools, Settle In BilingualFrench booksReading in French
No doubt, reading stories in French to your child is important in all languages, but for an expatriate child educated in a language other than his own, it is essential. Here are 12 good reasons to read stories in French to your child: For pleasure To arouse curiosity...
by MerciSF | 29-06-2022 | Education, News BilingualReading in FrenchSummer 2022
It’s vacation time and many French, French speakers, or Francophiles will spend time in France. Your trip is a great opportunity to bring back a few books for children of all ages, and anticipate back-to-school. Emilie Nolf, our bilingual education expert has...
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 Anne Marie | 25-04-2022 | Food, News, Shopping BilingualBookChildrenWoman Entrepreneur
Here is the adventure of Camille Mallet, a long-time expatriate who publishes a book of pastry recipes accessible to children entitled The Mystery of the Yellow Dragon. This professional pastry chef, who recently moved from China to Marin County, a mother of two...
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...