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How this started ☕️
French with Amélie started with no plan at all. I was teaching French, and I kept writing little colloquial dialogues for my students — because the textbook French they’d learned kept collapsing the moment a real French person opened their mouth. Newsletters were becoming a thing, so I started sending my dialogues out. It was meant to be a fun side-project next to a “real job.”
Then, while I wasn’t looking, it became a real thing. The replies kept coming — and readers kept prodding me to take it seriously. So I did.
I should be honest about what this is: I’m not a big language-learning company. I’m a teacher with a laptop. 👩🏻💻
Each dialogue takes me days, and I’ve never run ads — I want this to stay what it’s always been: a personal community of passionate learners. Because the thing that works isn’t more grammar. It’s real French, in context, a little every day.
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The 💎 Premium Program
The [Member-Only] Paris 🗼 Series
The backbone of the member library — a firm reader-favourite and they’re definitely my favourite work. Visit Paris with me! And learn how to do it all with real colloquial French!
More series to explore 🧭
French 101 🇫🇷 — the textbook scenarios, done the way French people actually speak.
Hot Issues 🔥 — discuss what France is actually talking about, one hot topic at a time.
Et bientôt… 🚀
La Débrouille 🥐 · De Ville en Ville 🧭 · Cartes Postales 📮 — and two more I’m keeping secret for now…
Five new member-only series are in the oven. Paid members meet them first.
✅ The Monthly Level Tests
Progress you can measure — it’s built in. Every month I write a fresh level test from that month’s lessons: listening, vocab, the little turns of phrase you’ve been absorbing. Take it, score yourself, watch your French move. No sign-up, no extra anything — it’s part of the membership.
Here’s the test hub, free to browse — see exactly what you’d be training for:
I believe in my readers. I believe you always know more than you think.
I believe you're always further on the path than you think you are.
And that’s why I present you with real, authentic, actual French—in context. 🇫🇷
And allow you to read, re-read, edit, write, listen to, record, shout, respond, dissect, be surprised by, and sit-with it.
Learn French in Context
We all secretly know the only way to truly learn a language is real-life conversations and experiences. Sadly, lessons and grammar can only take us so far.
While real-life experiences are difficult to recreate, our colloquial conversational dialogues help you learn authentic French in context. They’re how real French people actually speak.
French with Amélie’s dialogues are great for any learning style or level. 🌱
*Also very helpful to those wanting authentic content after an app like Duolingo! 🦉
✅ This is for you if…
You can read some French but freeze when it’s spoken
You’ve done the apps and want to actually understand people
You’d happily do ten focused minutes a day if you knew it counted
❌ This probably isn’t for you if…
You want fluency in a weekend, with no effort
You already banter comfortably with native speakers (bravo — you’re past me)
You only need to pass a written exam
Show me the goods ✨
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