Welcome to The French Post!
I created this site to be the tool I wish I’d had when I started learning French over twenty years ago. My traditional, textbook-based classes frustrated me for the same reasons most people quit:
- No big picture, just chapter after chapter with no sense of how it all fits together
- Grammar concepts buried inside vocabulary units, arbitrarily mixed
- The assumption that adults would absorb a language through “immersion” that only takes place inside a classroom (which isn’t immersion at all)
Since those first high school classes, I’ve studied and traveled extensively in France and French-speaking Switzerland (Paris, Avignon, Nice, Marseille, Bordeaux, Geneva) and I’ve been writing about French grammar and vocabulary here since 2010.
My approach is top-down. Every lesson explains where it fits in the bigger picture, and, where possible, why the language works the way it does. I separate grammar and vocabulary deliberately, because mixing them arbitrarily is what made learning frustrating for me in the first place.
This style won’t suit everyone. If you prefer immersion methods or integrated vocabulary-grammar textbooks, those are great options too. I just didn’t find them useful personally.
If you have questions, corrections, or lessons you’d like to see, I’d love to hear from you.
— Brittany
