Enchantée! (Nice to meet you) My name is Patricia and I am a native French speaker who was born near Geneva. Although my parents are English, I did all of my schooling in French until age 13, when we moved to London. Once I became a mother (and a child in my mind again), my inner voice somehow switched back to French, so I started speaking French to my baby: two years on, and James is delighting me by responding in my childhood language! The aim of On Chante (which means "let's sing") is to spread the love of French to pre-schoolers, since early second language acquisition has so many advantages that will help in school and in life later on.

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I have been a teacher for over a decade, teaching children in a bilingual primary school (l’Ecole Bilingue de Suisse Romande), adults at la Swiss French School and Wall Street English, and more recently university students in EAP (King’s College, London) and in foundation year curriculum design (London School of Business and Management). I have an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (on the influence of French authors on American literature), and an MA in education from la Haute Ecole Pedagogique in Switzerland, where I am qualified to teach English to 6th form students.

Currently, my passions are learning the ukelele and learning about child psychology.