When studying in my lessons, I don’t want you to have the right answers. Sounds counterproductive, right? Teachers usually want you to say the right answer, don’t they? Yes… and no. Of course we want our students to get it. Sometimes it's a yes/no answer, like in a grammar exercise. And yes, it is extremely rewarding to be right. So I’m not against being right. I’m not against giving the correct answer. But. I would bet my savings on someone who's sometimes inaccurate but taking risks, rather than someone who only gives me perfect sentences. Here’s why: The brain learns through error correction. I want my message to go from point A (me) to point B (you). I’ll use a form of communication I think is correct. Either it is, and B gives me signals that it worked. My brain reinforces the path it took. Or it’s not, and the message doesn’t go through. It bounces. I get signs that it failed. So my brain tries another path. If you’re only ever trying safe stuff that you already know, your brain isn’t learning to cope with failure. And the day someone doesn’t respond the way you expected, the day a native uses a word or structure you didn’t learn in your course, you freeze. That’s why so many people freeze. You learnt it perfectly a certain way. And the real world offers you a slightly different version. You weren’t trained to handle that. Your brain panics. Stress mode kicks in. And you freeze, flight, or fight. Let’s look at it like basketball. Two players practice 5 times a week. One always does the same move. He scores every single time. He’s the king of practice. The second tries different moves. He focuses on one at a time, works on them until he gets better, but he only scores every now and then. Now tell me: Which one will be the best in 10 years? I don’t want you to always be right. Because that means you’re not taking risks. You’re not getting out of your comfort zone. You’re not really learning. Of course we want quick wins and rewards. They matter.

For intermediate to advanced learners... Rules are simple: You have 6 personal pronouns and 6 verbs. You need to conjugate those verbs in the present tense. - you cannot write twice the same pronoun or verb in the same column or line. - You cannot have the same verb/pronoun combination in the whole grid. Bonne chance !

Do you sometimes feel like you know bits and bobs, but you can’t quite make yourself understood in a full sentence? You don’t need to get it right straight away. Start with getting one word right. - Chien ! Once you’re confident, add a second word: - Nouveau chien ! And as you learn more, keep building: - Je nouveau chien ! What’s important here is NOT perfect accuracy. Seriously… who cares? The first thing that matters is getting your point across. Babies don’t speak in perfectly formed, grammatically correct sentences, and yet they’re immersed in the language 24/7! Then you can keep going: - Je ai nouveau chien - J’ai un nouveau chien - J’ai un nouveau bébé chien … and so on. Think about a sport. Imagine you want to learn how to do a one-handed backhand. Would watching Federer do it a hundred times suddenly make you able to do it too? Don’t think too hard: the answer is no. 😅 It takes practice. It takes breaking it down into baby steps first. That’s where scaffolding comes in. It’s the key. 🧠✨ #learnlikeababy (I might make a shirt out of this slogan 🤔😂)