Winter 2026 - French Story Listening for Upper Beginners
Come to the table. Come hungry for living French—not the dry, lifeless grammar of textbooks, but the rich, nourishing language of compelling stories.
Each week, for 90 minutes, you will be invited into a story—not rushed, not pressured, but given time to digest and assimilate what you hear.
Listen to a compelling story told in rich, abundant French. Let the language wash over you. Your mind is designed to make sense of it.
Read the same story, allowing vocabulary and structures to settle naturally into your understanding, as nourishment becomes part of the body.
Narrate the story— orally, in your own words, and in written form. This is the heart of true acquisition: you tell back what you have received, and in the telling, the language becomes yours. Narration is not mere repetition; it is the act of taking living ideas and making them part of your living knowledge.
Course•By Alice Ayel
