{"id":16,"date":"2025-09-12T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2025-09-12T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T11:11:24","slug":"my-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/my-story\/","title":{"rendered":"My Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bonjour! I\u2019m Patrick \u2014 a <strong>native French speaker<\/strong> born and raised in France, now living in Ireland for over 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always loved teaching and sharing my passion for the French language. For me, learning a language should feel <strong>practical, enjoyable, and useful<\/strong>. That\u2019s why I focus on what you really need \u2014 whether you\u2019re a student aiming to succeed in exams or an adult who simply wants to feel comfortable speaking French while visiting a French-speaking country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, I\u2019ve seen friends and some students struggle with French \u2014 not because they couldn\u2019t learn, but because of the way it was taught. Too often, lessons were <strong>over-complicated<\/strong>, focused on things that weren\u2019t really useful, or left people feeling they lacked confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe in cutting through the <strong>over-complicated grammar and unnecessary details<\/strong>, and instead focusing on <strong>clarity, confidence, and real-life communication<\/strong>. My goal is to make French not just something you study, but something you enjoy using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve also published <strong>several books on learning French the easy way<\/strong>, and you\u2019ll find some excerpts available here on the site \u2014 perfect for getting a feel for my teaching style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to helping you on your French journey!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonjour! I\u2019m Patrick \u2014 a native French speaker born and raised in France, now living in Ireland for over 20 years. I\u2019ve always loved teaching and sharing my passion for the French language. For me, learning a language should feel practical, enjoyable, and useful. That\u2019s why I focus on what you really need \u2014 whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnfrenchwithpatrick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}