January 24th, 2010
Bonjour tout le monde and a Happy New Year to everyone.
Just a reminder that our Term 1 for 2010 starts today Monday 25th Jan for all our returning and new students.
We are back from our travels in France, Italy and Morocco with plenty of fabulous travel tales to tell. We had a combined our trip with family and work and spent some time in Morocco meeting with our basket makers and seeing new styles and models. We also survived Paris in –4 days as well. Of course both Rome and Paris were so pretty during the festive season and well worth a visit just for that.
Term programme
All adult classes begin today Monday 25th January. With the exception of the Tuesday Foundation 1 classes which begin Tuesday 2nd Feb.
All our children’s classes start the week 1st Feb.
For anyone still considering our group classes we a have very limited number places in our evening classes and a few spots in the morning groups.
For private lessons or Skype classes; these need to be arranged with Martine directly on 93802672.
La vie moderne
frenchclass has embraced some of the modern social networking sites available. Strictly in the interest of promoting the French language bien sûr!
We now have both a Twitter and facebook page.
If you are interested in becoming a fan of facebook go to our page on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paddington-Australia/frenchclass-Martine-Baboin/139570890049
For Twitter our name is frenchclasstips
We hope to keep up a regular flow of ideas for improving your French for our followers.
Tour in Provence
Just a reminder that we still have a couple of places available in our Tour to Provence for September this year. The group is from 5th –15th September in the Luberon Valley just outside the market town of Apt. It is a truly special 10 days living the French lifestyle. Go to our Provence page for all the info.
Merci et à bientôt
Martine et Miriam
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December 18th, 2009
Bonjour
With only a few days of 2009 to go Miriam and I wish all our students and frenchclass amis a wonderful fin d’année and a very happy festive season.
We are looking forward to a busy and very French 2010. We have already got amazing enrollments for our programme of classes for Term 1. If you are interested in taking lessons in Term 1, be quick as spaces are filling fast. We also have an expanding programme for children too! See the classes page for all the details.
Before the term begins we start the new year with several weeks of intensive summer classes.
We will be offering:
Advanced class 9.00 - 1.00pm 11th - 15th January
Foundation class 1.30 - 5.30pm 18th - 22nd January
N’oublie pas (don’t forget) our frenchclass in Provence trip in September.
We are in the Luberon Valley - Provence from the 5th to 15th September with our group of avid francophiles.
Our 10 day trip focuses on a French lesson everyday plus visits to markets, delightful provencal villages, local restaurants and sites of interest. For all details see our Provence page.
We are closed from the 21 Dec to 11 January.
Toutes nos amitiés, et bonne année pour 2010.
Martine et Miriam de frenchclass
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August 10th, 2009
Join our intensive classe d’été and make a real difference to your French. We are offering up to 2 weeks of classes focused on conversation.
11th -15th January and 18th - 22nd January
20 hours per week or 40 hours for the 2 weeks.
Advanced class 9.00 - 1.00pm
Foundation class 1.30-5.30pm
For one week $1000
For two weeks $1900
Discounts for early bird booking by 27th November.
One week $950
Two weeks $1800
The classes will be very small groups designed to enable learners to make the most progress with their French over this time.
For more information contact Martine 93802672 or info@frenchclass.com.au
Don’t forget our new Term starts week beginning 19th October bookings are already underway for all classes. All the information for our term programme is on the classes page click here for details.
Bonne continuation et bien amicalement à vous.
Martine et Miriam frenchclass
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June 21st, 2009
We commence our new term starting the week 27th July. The winter term is a 10 week programme. Our new beginners class will be on Thursday 30th July in the evening from 6.30pm.
For all the details of our class programme click here for our classes page.
Don’t forget Bastille Day is coming up on the 14th July.
We have just heard that Caroline Nin will be @ The Vanguard (Doing Edith Piaf covers and more). What a great way to spend the evening. For more info here is the Vanguards website.
http://www.thevanguard.com.au/
A tres bientôt
Martine et Miriam
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June 9th, 2009
For sometime now frenchclass has been offering French lessons on line. Using the fantastic Skype technology we can bring a lesson right to you where ever you are. We offer audio Skype and if you have a webcam or a built in camera in your computer we offer a video Skype lesson.
It is a great way for students who are traveling, working interstate or living some distance away to keep in touch with their French.
‘I have been learning French with Martine via Skype for 3 months now. I have found this an excellent way to have lessons! I can see and hear her clearly and she is able to see and teach me very well. I live in the outback in Australia and have 2 small children so it is not particularly easy to learn French from where I am. Using Skype is great as we have scheduled a time that suits us both once per week and I can sit here at home and know that I am getting very good quality teaching from my living room. I would definitely recommend it.’ Debbie - Broken Hill.
To get more information about frenchcclass en ligne or arrange your own lessons contact Martine on 02 9380 2672 or email info@frenchclass.com.au
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May 6th, 2009
Bonjour à nos amis de frenchclass,
Term 2 has started and most of our classes like the cherries trees below are full and blossoming. However if you want to start with us call me and I will see what we can do for you. We recommend to be ready for a term of lessons you can start your learning with the Michel Thomas method. See classes page for the links.
As many of you know I am just back from a family trip in Drôme in the Rhône Valley. I went to supervise the slow but continuing renovation of our country house La Grange, visit my mother and recharge my French batteries.
Ci-dessous (here under) quelques images de la Vallée du Rhône autour de La Grange.
Merci à tous et à toutes et à très bientôt.
Martine

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April 7th, 2009
Bonjour
We are all settled into our programme for 2009, our new space and class room.
Almost all of of our classes are full to bursting with keen francophiles.
If you are still interested in learning French this year, our programme for Term 2 will be starting from the 27th April.
Watch out for your newsletter for those on our list. Or join our email list on the contact page.
A bientôt Martine et Miriam
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December 16th, 2008
Nous vous souhaitons un merveilleux Noel avec beaucoup de bonheur. Meilleurs vœux pour 2009.
We are finishing 2008 having had a fantastic year bringing the French language to a great many delighted and happy Sydneysiders who share our love and passion for France. We have now settled into our lovely new classroom and are enjoying the benefits of the extra space that it brings. We love the additional exposure on Glenmore Road too.
Our new programme of classes starts the week beginning 27th Jan. All the information click on the classes page of our website.
We had another wonderful trip to Provence in September with a enthusiastic and charming group of people who enjoyed the beauty and bounty of the Provencal countryside the way we do. Plans and bookings are underway for 2009 so if you want to be part of the marvellous experience check out the details on our website - tours page or call for more information at frenchclass in Paddington.
frenchclass has enjoyed being “maman” to our 2 duck trading company, with the French market baskets and we have had a great year selling les paniers at all the various markets we go to. In 2009 we will be taking part in Life in Style trade fair and hope to bring more baskets to Sydney and beyond as we all look for ways to reduce our use of plastics while carrying all our various needs.
Encore une fois - Joyeux Noel et bonne annee de Martine, Miriam, Willya et Louis de frenchclass. We hope to see you in 2009.
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December 15th, 2008
We are offering several intensive holiday classes for adults and children in January.
For adults
January 12th until 16th and 18th to 23rd
Advanced 1 - 10.00 - 12.00am
Foundation 1 - 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Cost $800 1 week and $1500 2 weeks.
For children
Foundation 1 4.30-6.00pm
Cost $300 1 week $500 2 weeks.
For information about all our classes and programme for 2009 look on our classes page www.frenchlass.com.au/>/a>
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October 27th, 2008
We are delighted to announce that frenchclass will be relocating to the shop at the front of our house in Glenmore Road.
We are very excited as this will give our French corner of Paddington so much more space to carry on all the classes we currently offer.
With the extra space we will be able to offer more classes for children and adults in 2009.
Watch out for our classes programme for next year in the coming months.
Christmas Markets for 2008
2 Duck Trading and the market baskets will be going to several additional markets in the lead up to the festive season!
Gift of Hope Eastern Suburbs Rugby Club - Thursday 30th October 9.00-3.00pm
Gift of Hope Mosman RSL, Military Road Thursday 6 Nov 10.30-3.00pm
Avalon Beach Village Market Day, Avalon Saturday 15th Nov 10.00-4.00pm
FANS French Fare at Killarney Height Primary School 21st Nov 2.00-8.00pm
Newport Village Market Day Newport sunday 30 November 10.00-4.00pm
If you can’t make it at these markets we are at all our normal markets see markets page www.frenchclass.com.au/?page_id=57 / for all the details.
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