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Canadian French for Flight Attendants

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Specifically targeted to Flight Attendants.

Learn exactly the French you need to pass a flight attendant French test and work as a bilingual flight attendant. Created with the help of bilingual flight attendants, no one else knows better the kind of French you need to learn.

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Focus on listening and speaking with confidence.

Flight attendants almost exclusively communicate with passengers orally, rarely by writing or reading. Focus on practicing listening and speaking with natural ease.

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Dedicated to you only.

Listen to our native speakers the entire time, as much as you want. Practice your speaking as much as you want. Don't share course time with other students. No reading, no writing, no grammar homework. Flight attendants rarely need to read or write with passengers.

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Your schedule. Your surroundings. No pressure.

Learn in the comfort of your surroundings. At home. On your commute. In a park. Learn on your schedule. Practice your speaking on your own without any pressure or nerves.

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Standard and Informal Canadian French

We teach you standard French. But native speakers won't speak like a French textbook. Thus, we also teach you to recognize informal pronunciations, non-standard vocabulary, and anglicisms. When you inevitably come across them, you won't get thrown off. We also teach you the Canadian accent, which is what most passengers will speak with.

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Other French courses online/school/community centre

Generic. No specific goal.

Other courses are generic, with no specific purpose. They're made by people who do not know what kind of French a flight attendant needs.

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Overwhelming. Excessive.

Other courses try to simultaneously teach reading, writing, listening and speaking. It's overwhelming. And excessive for the goals of flight attendants. Flight attendants rarely need to read or write with passengers.

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Share course time with other students.

Weekly class time is shared with other students. Each student will only end up with a few minutes of speaking practice per class. You might pick up other students' mistakes. You only get to hear the native speaker teacher speak a little bit each week. Heavy emphasis on writing and reading homework.

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Class schedule. Classroom environment.

Many feel nervous practicing speaking in front of others, especially in front of other more outspoken students in class. Class schedules may interfere with your own.

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Textbook Parisian French only.

Parisian French only. Focuses only on formal, textbook French. Native speakers won't speak like a French textbook. You'll get thrown off when they use colloquial language with you.

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Canadian French for Flight Attendants

The French course designed for current and aspiring Flight Attendants

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Life vest

Flight Attendant Phrases

Sep 4, 20201 min read

English: Life vest

French: Gilet de sauvetage

Airplanes are equipped with life vests or at the very least, flotation devices, in the event the plane has to make an emergency landing on water. If need be, their usage is explained to passengers during the safety demonstration before each flight, just like oxygen masks. Therefore the expression for “life vest” probably isn’t one that you’ll personally have to use very often, despite them being an integral part of aviation safety.

One situation in which you might have to use this expression in French is when you give baby briefings to passengers and have to tell them where the infant life vests are located in the aircraft.

Gilet (m)=Vest

De=Of

Sauvetage (m)=Saving, Rescue

Gilet de sauvetage=Life vest

Now available! Module 4 of Canadian French for Flight Attendants. Learn the French for:

-Less common food/drinks/special meals.

-Bag issues (bag won't fit/no more space).

-Announcements for mechanical problems, cancellations, airplane changes, diverting, etc.

-Delays because of fuel, catering, connection passengers, weather, etc.

-Tight/missed connections.

-And much, much more!

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