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...

Hardest Part of TEF Has Nothing to Do With French I want to start this newsletter the way I wish someone had started one for me. With the truth. Not the highlight reel. Not the "I did it and so can you!" poster. The real, quiet, slightly shaky truth of what this journey actually feels like. So here it is. We took a family trip to Rishikesh after I got my Canadian PR.It was supposed to be a celebration. And it was. But something else happened there that I did not see coming. I sat by the Ganga...