You have the skills, you have the ideas.

You are an internationally trained professional

• You understand everything, but the words freeze as soon as you have to speak in front of others.

• You would rather stay quiet in meetings than risk making a mistake.

• You feel your French is slowing down your career even though your skills are solid.

• The French classes you took never helped with the vocabulary you use every day in your job.

• You prefer one-on-one lessons and you are ready to practise between sessions.

You work in healthcare

• You need to pass on information to a patient or your team, and you are searching for the right term.

• You hesitate over how to write a note, a handover or a patient file in French.

• You want to be understood and reassuring with French-speaking patients.

• You wonder whether your colleagues and patients really understand you.

• You are preparing for the OQLF exam and want a clear method and precise feedback.

I am a nurse with a French state diploma, and I have practised in France, Switzerland and Quebec.

French is my mother tongue, but in each country I had to learn a different professional French: the vocabulary, the notes, the patient files, the workplace culture. Today, in Alberta, it is my English that I have to prove. So I know exactly how it feels to have the skills but not yet the words to show them.

That is why I created French Easy Peasy: to help you find your professional voice in French.