I feel so proud to be a part of this book project from French My Way which started about a year ago. Little did I realize that it wasn’t just ideas that were needed to help with getting this book ready, but also practical stuff like building a website, editing the content, developing a marketing and promotional plan, and even training Muriel on how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
“This is NOT a normal French book” was the brain-child of Muriel from Day One. Being a French Teacher and Education specialist, she has worked around the world (in places like England, Ireland, Jamaica, Indonesia, Thailand and Fiji) and has come to a conclusion that learning should be fun, interactive, and taps into how we naturally understand and absorb information. While the book incorporates comic book characters and day-to-day dialogues, it also incorporates ideas and theories from the field of neuroscience. Muriel has melded the theoretical with very practical lessons that can help anyone learn French. By the way, she designed the curriculum, provided all the illustrations, and even recorded all the audio for the book!
One of the reviews the book received (so far) comes from John-Paul Flintoff, a journalist, coach, speaker and writer (for the Sunday Times (of London) and for six years, a feature writer and associate editor on the Financial Times magazine).
FYI, Michel Thomas was a gifted linguist who mastered more than ten languages in his life-time and became famous for teaching much of Hollywood’s “A” list how to speak a foreign language.
So check out the book and why not pick up a copy for yourself – what you’ll have in you hands is not only a great way to learn French, but from my perspective a great piece of art as well!