The Barter Deal That Became LFWA A simple IELTS-for-French barter deal quietly became LFWA. Here's how it started. Hi Reader, Ihad just finished my TEF exam and moved on to preparing for IELTS when I met Neeru Panchal. She was learning French and I needed help with IELTS. So we struck a simple deal - she would help me with IELTS, and I would help her with French. "You should become a French trainer!" — Neeru Panchal, out of nowhere Like anyone else, I thought of it as a bizarre idea and said...

My First TEF Class Cost $10 French went from a $10 secret to a full-blown industry. Here's how to tell a roadmap from hope. Ten dollars. That is what my very first TEF class cost. It was not a discount. Almost nobody believed back then that learning French could actually get you Canadian PR. I would explain the pathway, tell people it often cost far less than the student visa route, and still hear the same reaction: "Really? French can do that?" Some students asked me why nobody had told them...

Hours In, Almost Nothing Out Huge hours in, almost nothing out — here's what actually moves the needle for TEF speaking. Hi Reader, During COVID, working from home gave me something I never had before - extra hours. I thought that was the answer. More time, more French, more progress. But I had no idea what to actually study. So I studied everything. Random articles. New vocabulary lists. Long pieces of writing that had nothing to do with TEF Canada. I remember spending an entire day on one...