Intermediate French with Carlito

👉 Download your FREE "Regarder Monet en français" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-regarder-monet-en-francais-guide The white chalk cliffs rise above the sea. The Porte d’Aval stands in the distance. Morning light falls softly across the landscape. This is Étretat, in Normandy, a place Claude Monet returned to again and again. But why would a painter keep painting the sam...

Before dawn on June 6, 1944, Léon Gautier was crossing the English Channel on a warship.   For the Allied soldiers around him, France was a country to liberate. For Léon, it was the country he had left four years earlier. He was coming home.   Among the men who landed on Sword Beach that morning were 177 French commandos. In this episode, follow Léon's journey from a 17-year-old apprenti...

👉 Download your FREE "LE HORLA, EN DOUCEUR" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-le-horla-en-douceur-guide Every night, a man fills a glass of water before going to bed.   Every morning, the glass is empty. No one has entered the house. In this episode, we enter Le Horla , Guy de Maupassant's unsettling story about a man who slowly becomes convinced that an invisible pre...

Imagine standing in a French village and looking at a house before anyone tells you where you are.   The stone, the roof, the shutters, the windows and the colors are already giving you clues. In this episode, we travel through Brittany, the Basque Country, Alsace and Normandy and discover how regional houses can reveal climate, history, materials, light and ways of life.   You will lear...

Imagine standing outside a restaurant in France and noticing a tiny Michelin star above the door.   Today, that symbol represents some of the highest recognition in gastronomy. But its story begins with two brothers selling tires at a time when France had very few cars. In this episode, you'll discover why Michelin created its first guide, how restaurant inspections and stars appeared, what t...

Pont Neuf means “New Bridge.” But when you stand near La Samaritaine and look toward the Seine, you are actually looking at the oldest bridge in Paris. In this episode, we explore Pont Neuf, the temporary installation La Caverne du Pont-Neuf, and the very French conversations that public art can create around beauty, heritage, and money. Along the way, you’ll discover useful French vocabulary and...

At an elegant table in Monte Carlo, alcohol catches fire beside a plate of crêpes. The crêpes are served anyway, and according to the story, a mistake becomes crêpes Suzette. In this episode, we discover five French sweets said to have been born from mistakes. From the Carambar and tarte Tatin to the kouign-amann and bêtises de Cambrai, each one reveals a small story about French regions, words, m...

👉 Download your FREE "Jeanne d'Arc, en douceur" Guide   →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-jeanne-darc-en-douceur-guide Rouen, 1431. A cold stone room. Dozens of theologians, several of them trained at the University of Paris. And in front of them, alone on a simple bench, a nineteen year old girl who could not read or write. They asked her a question built so that no answer...

👉 Download your FREE "À l’Hôtel Louison, sans stress" →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-a-lhotel-louison-sans-stress-guide Come inside a real Paris hotel room and learn the French you actually need when staying in a hotel in France. In this episode, we visit the Hôtel Louison in Paris with Elisa. You will hear practical French vocabulary for the reception, the room, the bathroom...

👉 Download your FREE "Arsène Lupin à Étretat, en douceur" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-arsene-lupin-a-etretat-en-douceur-guide  In this episode, I take you to the white cliffs of Étretat in Normandy, and tell you the story of the treasure that a whole nation believed in.  The strange needle of rock, the writer Maurice Leblanc, and Arsène Lupin, the most char...

👉 Download your FREE "Madame Bovary, en douceur" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-madame-bovary-en-douceur-guide In this episode, I tell you the story of the most scandalous novel in French history, and of the woman at its heart.  Why France put a book on trial in 1857, who Emma Bovary really was, and why, more than a century later, her longing for a more beautiful l...

👉 Download your FREE "Sur les pas de Jules Verne à Amiens" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-Jules-Verne-in-Amiens-guide In this episode, I take you to Amiens, a quiet city in the north of France, and tell you the story of the man who imagined the whole world from a small room at the top of a tower.  The worlds of his novels, his daily discipline, his love for his ado...

👉 Download your FREE "The Sun King's Versailles" Guide →  https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-sun-kings-versailles-guide In this episode, I take you inside the Palace of Versailles and we live one full day with Louis XIV, the Sun King. From the morning ceremony where the whole court watched him wake up, to the candlelit evenings in the Hall of Mirrors. A calm, immersive walk through...

👉 Download your FREE “Reims Coronation” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-reims-coronation-guide In this episode, I take you to Reims, the French city where 25 kings of France were crowned. Not Paris. Not Versailles. Reims. You will discover why this city became sacred in French history, why Clovis was baptized there, why Joan of Arc brought Charles VII to Reims during the Hundr...

👉 Download your FREE “ Champagne Empire ” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-champagne-empire-guide In this episode, I tell you the story of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, the young widow behind the yellow label of Veuve Clicquot. At 27, with a failing business and everyone telling her to give up, she made a different choice. I take you through the cellars of Reims and the life of a wom...

👉 Download your FREE "French Cinema" Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-french-cinema-guide In this episode, I sit down with Manon, who runs a French film club in Paris, and she explains why French movies feel so different from American ones. From the New Wave to Amélie, from the "French Ending" to the French idea that cinema is culture, not just entertainment. You can learn more...

👉 Download your FREE "Nîmes Heritage" Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-nimes-heritage-guide In this episode, I take you to the south of France, to a city most people have never heard of, that holds more Roman heritage than anywhere on Earth outside Italy.  ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so...

👉 Download your FREE “ Paris Hotel ” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-the-paris-hotel-guide In this episode, I take you inside a real 4-star Paris hotel and let you hear every word of the conversation between a guest and the receptionist — from check-in to check-out. ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you...

👉 Download your FREE "Parisian Elegance Guide" → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-parisian-elegance-guide In this episode, I take you inside the Ritz Paris and tell you the story of the woman who chose to live there for 37 years.  ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so much for your support. 📩 Have a ques...

👉 Download your FREE “Cholet Handkerchief ” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-Cholet-Handkerchief-guide A simple red and white handkerchief from the city of Cholet tells the story of one of the most violent, least known chapters of French history. ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so much for your supp...

👉 Download your FREE “Van Gogh Village” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-vgvg In this episode, I take you to Auvers-sur-Oise, the small village north of Paris where Van Gogh spent his final 70 days and painted 70 masterpieces. ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so much for your support. 📩 Have a quest...

In this episode, I join Thomas from Apprendre le French as the very first guest on his new podcast format, French Talks. We have a real, natural conversation in French about one of the biggest frustrations learners face: understanding the language… but struggling to speak it. We talk about my journey from HEC to teaching French, why I chose to work with intermediate learners, and the importance of...

Download your FREE “French Liberty Guide” → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-french-liberty In this episode, I take you to Colmar, in Alsace, to discover Auguste Bartholdi, the Frenchman who created the Statue of Liberty.  ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so much for your support. 📩 Have a question for...

👉 Download your FREE “ Menton Travel & Culture Pack ” → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lp-menton In this episode, I take you to Menton, the last French town before Italy, and I tell you the story of how a simple lemon shaped the destiny of an entire city.  ⭐ Enjoyed the episode?  A 5 star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify really helps the podcast grow, thank you so much for...

👉 Download your FREE “Vercingétorix & Caesar” Guide → https://www.frenchteachercarlito.com/lpvc In this episode, I tell you the full story of Vercingétorix and Julius Caesar.  You'll discover why Caesar invaded Gaul in the first place, what really happened at the battle of Gergovie, how the siege of Alésia ended in tragedy, and why this story still matters to the French today.  Alon...