natura-lang
Hello!
After spending 20 years teaching French abroad, I now practice my profession in collaboration with the Ludo-Expression school while offering immersion stays since April 2023.
ITINERARY
After completing university studies in Romance languages in Montpellier and specializing in teaching French as a foreign language, I traveled the world as a French teacher in Mexico, Madagascar, and then in a pilot school in the Dominican Republic, where I was able to develop my immersion method by "forgetting" to tell my students that I understood Spanish perfectly! A year of pretending not to understand is very difficult, but the results were spectacular!
The beginning
Natacha with the Berbers
"August 2008. It’s been two months since I’ve been living in Ait Ben Haddou, in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, with a Berber family. My friends speak a little French, but the family doesn’t speak it at all. Communication is difficult. I can say greetings and barely understand the daily exchanges: Do you want tea? Do you want to eat? Let’s go!"
The Emotional Reaction
It’s a shock; I don’t understand anything, and no one understands me: I CAN’T COMMUNICATE. An unpleasant physical and emotional sensation overwhelms me. How do I understand and make myself understood? My natural instinct immediately takes over, stimulating all my physical and intellectual abilities: concentration, perception, hearing, memory, observation.
The Method
This is what Natura Lang seeks to recreate with kindness and attentiveness through a 100% French immersion: stimulating the unconscious part, which is FUNDAMENTAL for truly acquiring the language.