🇫🇷 Delightfully Disoriented en France

🇫🇷 Delightfully Disoriented en France

Learning French (Again)

On rediscovering connection, humility, and the courage to belong — one awkward conversation at a time.

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Valerie Rivera
Oct 26, 2025
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Somewhere between bonjour and bon courage, I learned that speaking another language isn’t just about fluency — it’s about finding your footing, one awkward sentence at a time.

Visiting the incroyable Cité internationale de la langue française

When I was in high school, I took French from a delightful teacher named Frank. He glided across the classroom flo…

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