
BA (Hons); MA; FCIOL
Native French Teacher
Cécile is the veteran of the team, coming out of semi-retirement to help with the increasing volume of questions on Kwiziq French's Q&A forum.
She was born in Versailles and lived there for 18 years before settling into married life in Great Britain.
After raising two children and studying for 4 years at Warwick University, she began her own business, initially teaching French to local businesses from SMEs to multinationals. It grew to delivering more than 20 languages and twice won the Regional Language Trainer Award (1995, 2003), the UK’s National Languages for Export Awards. Cécile continued to teach French personally as well as managing a large team of multilingual tutors.
Although semi-retired, she still enjoys teaching French on a private basis, and loves to help students with their questions on Kwiziq French’s Q&A forum.
My qualifications
BA (Hons), French and European Literature (Warwick)
MA, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (Warwick)
FCIOL, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists
A level English (GCE)
Certificate of Proficiency in English - Grade A (Cambridge)
Certificate of Proficiency in French and English Translation - Grade A (Cambridge)
Certificate of Proficiency in Spanish - Grade 1, with distinctions (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
My experience
- 40 years teaching French at all levels
- 40 years running a business language training school
- UK Regional Language Trainer Award (1995, 2003)
Questions and Answers5320
- Lesson and test contradiction in usage of 'ne'? - 25 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- I'm confused by a possible "counterexample" - 25 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- Pronunciation of the words in the song. - 24 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- De l' vs d' - 19 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- Unstudied subjects - 19 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- Mistake in this text : une ballade ou une balade ? - 19 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- Conjugation examples aren't consistent in their use of the circonflexed i - 18 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- What happens to gentil when it describes more than one person? - 15 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- How to determine correct punctuation - 21 July, 2025 - Answer Answered
- Reset Brainmap - 5 year break - 15 July, 2025 - Answer Answered