30 Researchers in 4 years

30 Researchers in 4 years

Since 2019, our small school has trained almost 30 Researchers from INRAE Bourgogne Franche-Comté!

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵:

❌ first of all, it’s hard to find your place in a new country, culture, language, etc.
❌ especially when you have to perform asap at work in English but in a French-speaking environment
❌ when you don’t have time to learn and go out to practice IRL
❌ when the French contents provided don’t fit or are far from your interests
❌ when you don’t feel well-regarded for example if you feel pressure to learn French but don’t get help from your colleagues (by the way, we could talk about those who can’t even speak English 👀)
etc.

🔥 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩? 🔥

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First Podcast with B2 Researchers

First Podcast with B2 Reseachers

Take a look at one of the biggest achievements of our school in 2022!

INRAE Dijon told us about three researchers, Yaoyun (China), Denise (Brasil) and Didac (Spain), very advanced in French and determined to progress even more. ✊

Since they work on legumes, we wanted to make them think about how to use French in order to be understood on the radio and at the same time, how to popularize your work as a researcher.

🔥 This issue gave us all an opportunity and a challenge during several months:

create a unique and specific French course aiming at recording a real podcast

🎧 Deliverable now available on:

Helping Adam use French to influence

These past few months, I was challenged by INRAE Dijon, French public research institute dedicated to agricultural science, to design something unique: a 30h Advanced French Course for Research Director Adam Vanbergen.

Of course, Adam was already fluent in French but he was determined to do even better for example in situations when several Researchers interact and you have to process different things at the same time in order to provide appropriate AND convincing answers.

More than 100 pages of content

All through our sessions, I made him discover how people* build their speech. Some of them are easy to understand because their ideas are clear and when they talk, it’s well prepared. Some of them give you a headache and you have to deal with that.

Everyone still wants to make his point and builds a conscious (or unconscious) strategy to do so!

*Researchers and well-informed public (or not!) in science

French grammar, linguistics, rhetoric, argumentation: I created more than 100 pages of content from real situations and I challenged Adam with missions to accomplish. Of course, in an action-oriented evaluation of the language, I wanted this course to be useful for him as a Researcher and Research Director. 💪

Read below Adam’s feedback about this course and check link if you also want to join

Adam, merci de témoigner pour cet article ! Voici les questions :
  • Êtes-vous satisfait de cette formation et a-t-elle répondu à vos objectifs de départ ?

Oui parce que je trouve que le programme est bien construit avec un mélange de grammaire, de compréhension orale, etc. J’ai apprécié l’interactivité grâce à l’utilisation de la vidéo qui stimulait les échanges et aussi que Samyra place le sujet dans le contexte de mon domaine de recherche. C’est plus facile à comprendre.

  • Qu’est-ce qui vous a été le plus utile dans cette formation ?

La grammaire (pronoms relatifs, etc.), les connecteurs logiques, etc. ont été des outils que je réutilisais après les séances dans mon travail.

  • Avez-vous constaté des changements pour votre travail ?

J’ai plus de confiance quand je parle avec mon équipe.

  • Est-ce que vous recommanderiez cette formation à un.e autre chercheur / chercheuse ?

Oui, cette formation a été construite de manière très précise pour les besoins individuels des chercheurs. Elle est très différente des formations dans d’autres instituts de langue.


“Use French to Influence”

30h French course made in Dijon & especially designed for Researchers (B2/C1 level)