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3-Month Live French Immersion — with Hanna Eek!! ✓

Learning French is going to make you smarter, hotter, and unbearably interesting at parties.

(Scientifically proven. Mostly.) You're extremely good at hard things. This is your next one — except nobody's grading you, nobody's promoting you, and the only KPI is joy.

study live French, three times a month, from day one — mistakes very much included, red pens very much not.

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The premise

You hated French in school. You have a quiet, nagging suspicion you're "just not a languages person." And also — the idea of being fluent in French sounds unbelievably cool.

Here's what nobody told you in that classroom: fluency was never built from conjugation tables and pop quizzes. It's built exactly the way it was built in you the first time, in your first language — by being surrounded by it, mimicking it, using it badly, and using it again. babies don't study grammar!!

You already know how to do the hard part. You do hard things for a living. This time, the hard thing is just for you — and honestly? It's kind of the point that it's fun. that's allowed

Close your eyes for a second (okay, keep reading, but you know what I mean)

Picture this. Three months from now. You're not "taking a French class" anymore — you're just someone who speaks French. Here's what that actually feels like:

Montreal, a Tuesday

You order your coffee in French

The barista doesn't blink. Doesn't switch to English. Doesn't compliment your "cute try." She just... makes your coffee. That's the whole moment. And it is completely electric.

A dinner party, later this year

Someone finds out you speak French

Their whole face does the thing. "Wait — really? Say something!" And you do. Casually. Like it's nothing. (It is very much not nothing. You know exactly how rare this is.)

Somewhere, mid-conversation

The switch flips

You're talking to a native speaker and you notice, mid-sentence, that you've stopped translating in your head. The words are just... arriving. People spend years chasing this exact feeling.

Couch, French film, no subtitles

You laugh before the room does

You catch the joke half a beat before the subtitles would've explained it to everyone else. It's a tiny thing. It also might be the single best feeling of your entire month.

Most people who start learning a language quit in the first few weeks. You won't be most people — you'll be someone who can honestly, casually, permanently say: "Oh yeah, I speak French."

Who this is for

Accomplished, slightly type-A women who want one win that isn't attached to a title, a client, or a to-do list.

Not for

People chasing a certificate, a grammar gold star, or a new reason to feel bad about themselves. We left that energy in ninth grade, where it belongs.

My story Sri Lanka, present day
writing this between
my daughter's Muay Thai class
and my own French podcast queue
Hanna and her daughter Grace in Paris
me & Grace, Paris
Hanna reading in French on her Kindle, Sri Lanka
reading in French, Sri Lanka

In 9th grade, I sold my French essays to classmates who wanted to quit the class with a decent grade. Third successful business, after babysitting and tutoring — I was a menace, honestly. But I loved that language. The grammar was absurd, the vocabulary was relentless, and every inch of progress had to be fought for.

By senior year I'd majored in French. Technically, that put me at C2 — the official fluency level. And I still froze every single time someone found out I "spoke French" and asked me to prove it. It felt like a lie. I was technically advanced and practically terrified.

"I stopped needing to be amazing at French, and started letting myself just enjoy it. That's exactly when the progress kicked in."

Somewhere between building a business, living in Bali, Amsterdam and London, and landing in the top 1% of wealth in my own country, I let go of the idea that French had to be a performance. I started reading books I actually liked. Listening to things that made me laugh. And — slowly, without forcing it — I started thinking in French. Then dreaming in it. wild, right

I'm well past C2 now, and I still feel like a beginner most weeks. That's not a flaw in the process — that IS the process. I'm not a certified French teacher and never have been. What I am is someone who built a habit of immersion that actually worked, after years of the classroom version doing absolutely nothing. That's what I'm handing you.

Why this actually works

Your brain already knows how to learn a language. School just asked it to do the job backwards.

Linguist Stephen Krashen's research points to language being absorbed most durably through comprehensible input — material just slightly above your level, where your brain fills the gaps through context instead of rules. Same statistical pattern-learning your brain used the first time, on your first language. You're basically a very tall, very busy baby. in the best way

80–90%

of everyday spoken French comes from just the top 1,000–2,000 word families — which is exactly where we start.

Zero

grammar drills required to begin. You'll be using real phrases in your very first live class.

↑ grey matter

Neuroimaging (Mechelli et al., 2004) links language learning to denser memory and language regions — at any age.

Borrowed from the field

The method intelligence agencies use to get fluent, fast

The FBI trains operatives to fluency through structured immersion, not grammar homework. Very spy. We're borrowing the same core moves:

  1. Whole-phrase learning — full sentence patterns, not isolated vocab, so grammar gets absorbed intuitively.
  2. High-frequency first — Pareto principle, applied to vocabulary: the words that get you 80% of daily communication, before touching the rest.
  3. Shadowing — repeating right after a native speaker to physically retrain your mouth for French sounds.
  4. Live-stakes practice — real conversation, not multiple choice, because a little pressure is how your brain actually learns to perform.
How the three months work

Two moves. Repeated, daily, until it stops feeling like effort and starts feeling like a personality trait.

3x a month, live in French

Group classes with a native French speaker, from day one. You'll rehearse the everyday expressions real conversations are made of — no correction, just speaking, so hesitation never gets a foothold.

Your own French buddy

Paired with a fellow learner for low-stakes practice between live sessions, so French becomes something you do, not something you review.

Turn your life into immersion

Curated books, podcasts, and shows matched to your level, so French sneaks into your actual routine instead of sitting on a homework pile.

Weekly "homeplay"

Short writing exercises, pitched to your level, to move French from something you recognize to something you can actually produce.

And here's the part nobody puts in the syllabus: this is fun because you're not doing it alone. You're doing it with a whole cohort of women just like you — high achievers who decided to be delighted, unpolished beginners together, on purpose.

French Buddy Chatje suis... comment on dit "hangry" 😭
Live Classthe whole group cracking up because someone just called their cat "très fatigué" instead of "très mignon"
Group Cohortokay who else finished their book this week?! no spoilers!!
What's in the portal

Everything you need. Nothing you'll skip.

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One decision. Ninety days. A skill for the rest of your life. worth it, promise

Cohorts are rolling — you can join anytime. Your 3 months start the day you say yes, not on some arbitrary syllabus schedule.
Limited

The first 10 people to enroll before September get 50% off their first three months.

Most flexible
Monthly

3-Month Immersion

$250/ month

Billed monthly for 3 months. Automatically continues for a second 3-month term at the same rate, because fluency doesn't run on a 90-day script.

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Pay in full

3-Month Immersion

$700/ 3 months

Billed $700 every 3 months, automatically, until you cancel — a little thank-you for paying upfront: $50 off the monthly total. Cancel anytime before your next renewal.

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Have a question first? Email me — I answer these myself.

Before you join

The questions you're already asking yourself

"I don't actually need to learn French." +
Same. I don't "need" it either — I run a business, I'm raising my daughter on the road, I've hit financial milestones most people never will. Winners love a challenge that has nothing to do with winning at anything. This is that.
What are your credentials for teaching French? +
Formally? None. Zero. I majored in French in high school, tutored as a teenager, nannied in France — but my real fluency only clicked in the last two or three years, once I prioritized immersion over instruction. That's exactly the point. Children don't learn language from teachers. They learn it from exposure, mistakes, and trying again until it clicks. This isn't a course toward a certificate. It's a path toward the moment French stops feeling like a subject and starts feeling like yours.
Am I too old for this? +
No — and the research backs that up. Adult brains retain real neuroplasticity, and adults hold an underrated advantage over kids: you already know how to learn. You can choose the right materials, pace yourself, and stay consistent in ways a four-year-old simply can't. "It gets harder with age" is more myth than science, sweet honey pea.
I learned French in school and hated it. +
Same, and same for most of my community. That wasn't evidence you're bad at languages — it was evidence that grammar drills and vocabulary lists aren't actually how fluency gets built. We're doing this the way you'd have wanted it done the first time.
Isn't French just... genuinely a hard language? +
Yes! Extremely. It's also widely spoken, culturally enormous, and once you've mastered the meta-skill of learning a language properly, every language after this one gets easier. And you're not someone who's ever backed away from something hard — look at literally everything else you've built.
Am I too busy for this? +
You have 30 minutes somewhere in your day. That's genuinely all daily immersion takes — and it stacks onto things you're already doing: a podcast while you walk the dog, a book on your commute, journaling before bed. Add 3 hours of live class a month (that's 3 sessions) and 20–30 minutes of homeplay a week, and that's the whole time commitment. You will find the time. You find time for things that matter to you, and this is going to matter.
Couldn't I just use Duolingo? +
You could. But be honest: do you know anyone who's been playing around on a gamified app for a year and can actually hold a conversation? Exactly. Apps are great at teaching you to tap the right owl. They're not built to get you speaking. You're here because you want a proven — and yes, still fun — approach that actually gets you there, not just a longer streak.
Is this actually a useful skill, or just a nice-to-have? +
Both, honestly. And if you're someone who instinctively tries to monetize every hobby you pick up — consider this your permission slip to do something purely because it's enjoyable. That alone might be the rarest win on this list. Also: imagine casually mentioning you speak French. Gasp. So baller.
Still have a question? +
Email me directly at hello@hannabier.com — I read and answer these myself.
Let's dream a dream together

Three months from now, you could be ordering your coffee entirely in French.

Not perfectly. Not with a flawless accent. Just... in French. And meaning every word of it. Eek!!

You'll have a whole new identity tucked into your back pocket — "I speak French" — that you get to casually drop for the rest of your life. A group of women who cheered you on through every mangled sentence and became genuinely your people. And proof, permanent and undeniable, that "too old" and "not a languages person" were never true about you. Most people never get this. You're about to.

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