How to learn French with just one click
Would you like to learn French without making much effort or spending a lot of time on it?
If so, today’s topic is perfect for you.
In this article I share one of the cornerstones of my French learning method: the daily French bath habit.
It literally costs just one click and you don’t need any extra time for it.
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What is the daily French bath?
It’s not an actual bath - although some of my clients actually do it in their bath too. It’s something you can - and should - multitask.
The idea is that you have some French songs or podcasts or videos ready to go on your phone or computer and you listen to them everyday as you do something else.
By the way, if you don’t know how to find these songs or podcasts, this is also something I help my clients with.
So, whenever you are cooking, or cleaning or working out, or driving in your car, or doing literally anything that doesn’t require your full attention, you can and should listen to some French.
Now you may think “but I won’t understand anything!”
Here’s another good news: you don’t need to understand anything. That’s totally cool if you don’t.
I get that it requires a certain amount of trust to do this - but then again it only costs one click, so how about just trying it for a while?
If you do it for a couple of months and you also have some other French study like a regular class or meeting with a tutor, I promise you, you will see a boost in your results.
Ok, so how does this work???
Your brain has the capacity to acquire the language that surrounds you. As a baby, you learned your native language this way. Completely subconsciously. You certainly didn’t understand much at first, but you didn’t care.
As an adult, you retain this capacity. Unfortunately, most of us don’t harness it. We obsess over the need to understand what is being said, and if we don’t understand something, we feel so uncomfortable that we run from it. And that’s why we don’t learn other languages.
The trick is to just be ok with not understanding.
Quite frankly, if you’re cooking or driving, your goal is to get your food or get to your destination. Whatever is playing in the background isn’t very relevant. So, you can just focus on your cooking or driving, and not care whether you understand the French. Just have it playing. Literally just press play and forget about it. Let it wash over you and trust that your brain will pick it up. And if it doesn’t, it’s not the end of the world, so you can relax about it.
When you focus on something else, you release the resistance and you make way for your subconscious brain to work unhindered and you will see impressive results.
It’s particularly impressive if you use this method in combination with a weekly class, which is what I recommend to my clients. What you learn in your weekly class gets “activated” in your brain, and then you start noticing these things during your daily French bath.
It’s paradoxical, but when you don’t care about understanding, you understand more and more. It’s an uncanny but thrilling experience. I totally recommend doing it, and doing it everyday.
If you don’t believe me then you need to try for yourself. Be a good sceptic and don’t dismiss the idea before you give it a try for a good month. Remember it only costs one click and the potential results are awesome.
So, will you give it a try?
What French content or song will you listen to today?
Your next steps
If you like this way of learning French, you will love to learn with me as a student or client. Please check out:
My 1-1 coaching program, The French Transformation, if you need to improve your French fast.
My group program, The French Fluency Accelerator, if you’d like to join a community of students from all over the world. We have weekly practice calls together and the best online video library to learn French.
Pro tip: you don’t need to choose!
All my 1-1 clients are invited to join the French Accelerator free of charge.
Feel free to book a call with me now to discuss options.