We Stopped Studying French: What Happens After Excellent Language Mastery
Maria began learning French in an American high school classroom at 14 years old, and my French-language journey began just after my 18th birthday. It’s been nearly a decade since Maria introduced me to le français, and four years since…
Learning Languages with a GPT-3 Chatbot: Exciting Artificial Intelligence
Recently, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and happened upon a tweet from Memrise, a language learning app, that made a bold claim. Apparently, practicing a language with a GPT-3 chatbot is better than doing so with a human!…
Do You Need Super Duolingo? Language-Learning Technology Review (2023)
I discovered Duolingo back in 2014 at the very beginning of my French-learning journey. At the time, I was doing anything and everything I could to become fluent in French – and Duolingo absolutely played a role in getting me…
Improve Your French Writing Now With These Simple Rules
When you’re learning a foreign language, you expect to study new vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. However, if you’re an anglophone learning French, you’ll also be confronted with entirely different writing rules. While an extra comma or a forgotten space won’t…
You’ll Never Be Native: Hard Truths About Language Learning
As two anglophones who spent years acquiring French as our second language, taught English in French public schools, and earned master’s degrees from a French university, we know a thing or two about language learning! The language-learning community on Twitter…
Actually, Classroom French is Exactly What You Need
How many times have you heard someone say that learning French in a classroom setting is useless, antiquated, and won’t really make you fluent in French? The foreigners-living-in-France community is rife with this popular narrative, and we seem to be…
