Numbers, numbers, numbers
Prices, quantities, dates and phone numbers. French numbers above sixty are famously odd; we drill them until they are boring.
Polite forms that open doors
Vous, not tu, until invited. Bonjour before anything else, every time. Our students are surprised how much goodwill this alone earns.
Bonjour before anything else, every time.
The paperwork
Invoices, delivery notes and customs forms have a fixed vocabulary. We teach it with real, anonymised documents.
Phone French
Talking on the phone is harder than face to face. We practise with recorded calls at real speed, then slow them down.
Cameroon, Gabon and beyond
Central African French has its own words and rhythm. Our teachers grew up with it, so you learn the French you will actually hear.
Written by the Penstroke teachers. General guidance for this demo.