The Bla Bla Method
I don’t just teach you French. I teach you how to learn it.
1-on-1 online lessons with me, and your own learning portal between lessons. Everything is built around you: your goals, your level and the way you learn.
Apps or a teacher? You need both.
Apps give you practice without a guide. Lessons give you a guide without practice. The Bla Bla Method gives you both, in one plan.
Language apps
- ✓Daily practice and streaks
- ✕They don’t know you or your goals
- ✕Nobody explains why
- ✕Sentences you’ll never say
Online lessons
- ✓A teacher who explains
- ✓Real conversation
- ✕When the call ends, the learning stops
- ✕New words forgotten by next week
Bla Bla French Both
- ✓1-on-1 lessons built around how you learn
- ✓Your own portal for a few minutes a day
- ✓Words and grammar chosen for you, by me
- ✓Every lesson builds on what you practised
“Your app doesn’t know you. I do, because I’m your teacher.”
- 1. I planYour lesson, built around your goals and how you learn
- 2. You practiseA few minutes a day in your own portal
- 3. We build on itThe next lesson starts from what you practised
- ↻ and the loop starts again
How it works
When the lesson ends, the learning doesn’t stop.
It starts with a level test and your goals. Then, lesson after lesson, I see how you learn: what works for you, and what’s hard. That’s how I build your path, and no two students get the same material.
After each lesson, your new words and exercises are waiting in your portal. You practise a few minutes a day. In our next lesson, we use them: in real conversation, with new grammar built on what you practised.
I take the lead, so you can focus on learning.
Between our lessons
Your own learning portal
The daily practice you like in apps, but every word, every exercise and every list is chosen for you, by me.
New words after each lessonChosen for your next lesson and your goal
Words come back at the right timeStill learning? It’s back in 2 days. You know it? It waits longer.
Your plan, week by weekEach lesson has a goal, with its grammar, words and exercises
Every French verbIn every tense, whenever you need it
Think you’re “bad at languages”?
You’re not. You’ve just never been shown how to learn one.
If French is your first foreign language, it’s normal to feel lost. Your brain has to build new habits, and nobody teaches you how. That’s not a question of being smart. It’s a question of method.
Why I teach this way
I’ve been fascinated by languages since I was a child, and I learned most of the ones I speak on my own. Along the way I tried everything, and I learned what works and what doesn’t.
So I know the challenges you’ll face, because I’ve faced them too. That’s why I’m not only your tutor, but your language coach.
Speak. Remember. Grow.
What we focus on, lesson after lesson.
Speak.
From your very first lesson
- I learn how you learnYour level, goals, strengths and weak spots. Visual, auditory or a mix, we find what works for you.
- Conversation firstLike a child learning to talk, you speak before you overthink, with the French you’ll really use.
- Grammar made simpleNo need to know what an adverb is. I explain it in your terms, one useful piece at a time.
Remember.
So nothing gets lost
- Your own portalYour words, your plan and your exercises, all in one place.
- Words that come backEvery important word is tracked and brought back until it’s yours.
- Used in our lessonsWhat you practise comes back in conversation, so it really sticks.
Grow.
Into an independent learner
- Your path evolvesI follow your progress and adjust what we do as you move forward.
- You learn how to learnTechniques you keep for life, for advanced French or your next language.
- Real confidenceLess guessing, more knowing what to do next.
A skill you keep
You’ll leave with more than French
You’ll know how you learn best, how to practise on your own and how to make new words stick. Whether you move on to advanced French or start your next language, you won’t be starting from zero.
“Leyla is both passionate and patient in teaching me. The structure of the lessons, in part free conversation, in part reading and discussing a current topic, suits me very well.”
Ready to learn French, the way that works for you?
Start with a free 30-minute trial lesson. We’ll talk about your goals and I’ll show you how the Bla Bla Method would work for you.