Learn To Speak French at Inicio

With French speakers expected to total around 650 million people by 2050, you should really count yourself as one of them! Now the official language of 29 different countries around the world, your own private tutor will prepare you with the vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and fluency you’re hoping for. As we offer one-to-one teaching, either online or in-person, tutoring at INICIO will be designed to suit your individual goals, interests and learning pace.

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Speaking a new language helps you to get to know and understand another culture, as well as to help you to understand your own. Take a look at our list of facts and the advantages of learning French below:

  • It is the official language of the international postal service 

  • French is the official language of the International Red Cross 

  • French is one of the two official languages at the Olympic Games 

  • Roughly half of the words in modern English are borrowed from French 

  • In terms of the number of words, French is the second largest language after English 

  • French is a major language of high tech and business in the world 

  • French opens doors to careers in teaching, business, diplomacy, research, translation, interpretation, travel and more 

  • You could speak French to Johnny Depp if you bumped into him! 

  • There are well over 20 million native French-speaking people in the Americas 

  • French is the Lingua Franca of art, cuisine, dance and fashion 

  • French is the only language other than English taught in every single country in the world 

  • Quebecois Films have regularly beaten Hollywood productions at the box-office 

  • Knowing another language looks really impressive on your CV 

  • French is the language of love 

  • Salaries are higher for bilingual workers than unilingual workers

There are so many reasons to learn this beautiful language, so just get in touch to find out how we can help :) 

Don't miss the video at the bottom of the page… Serge, our lovely French tutor, talks all things past and present! 

Just to let you know he was buzzing last night after his session with you. He felt he was really getting somewhere.
— Alison Hamlyn
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Past or present? Serge looks for clues :)