Turn the French you understand into French you can use.
Oxford French Language Studio offers personalised French lessons for adults in Oxford and online. Write Your French is the studio’s weekly online programme for learners who want to develop more active, natural French through writing, listening and conversation.
Writing gives you time to find your words. From one short text to the next, you notice what returns, keep the phrases you need, and develop a French voice that sounds more like you.
Writing is the method. More natural French is the goal.
Choose the support that fits you
Join a weekly practice, book a private online lesson, or meet in Oxford.
Write Your French weekly program
Write regularly, receive personal feedback, practise listening, and join an optional 45-minute French group every Saturday from 19 September 2026, at 7 p.m. Paris time / 6 p.m. UK time.
Private lesson online
Meet a short French book extract, talk about what it opens, notice useful vocabulary and one grammar point, then reuse the language in your own words.
Private lesson in Oxford
Meet Olivia in Summertown, North Oxford, for a French-through-literature lesson: one short extract, conversation, useful vocabulary and grammar in context. Book one lesson at a time.
Prefer a creative-writing path? Explore Story Starters. Not ready to join? Begin with the free Starter Kit.
A calm, personal space for people who love French
Write Your French is a place to write from your real life or imagination — and have your words read with care.
I help you notice what already works, what sounds less natural, and the phrases and structures you can reuse in writing and conversation.
Little by little, your French becomes easier to find, more precise, and more your own.
Regular practice or a lesson focused entirely on you
Both begin with the French you already have. What changes is the rhythm and the kind of support you receive.
Progress from one week to the next
- Write and practise at your own pace in Circle.
- Receive ongoing personal feedback, with no fixed correction quota.
- Explore weekly prompts and Listen & Write activities.
- Reuse your French in the optional Saturday group.
Make one short passage part of your own French
- Discover a short extract chosen for your level and interests.
- Talk about the scene, character or idea in your own words.
- Notice a few useful expressions and one grammar point in context.
- Reuse the language and leave with a concise personal note.
In both cases, the aim is not to complete a fixed syllabus. It is to make the French you already understand easier to use.
A different kind of correction
You do not only see what was wrong. You learn how a French speaker would naturally phrase what you were trying to say.
Je sais exactement les mots je veut dire, mais je fais les erreurs.
Je sais exactement ce que je veux dire, mais je fais des erreurs.
Je sais exactement ce que je veux dire… / je fais des erreurs.
This is the heart of the work: turning your own sentences into French you can reuse.
Practise with us for free
You do not have to practise French alone. Choose the free space that feels easiest for you.
The French Corner — keep your French alive
Join the free part of the Write Your French community on Circle. Twice a month, I share a word, a phrase, or a short writing prompt. Reply with one sentence or a few lines, with no schedule and nothing to catch up on.
Facebook — write with other learners
Respond to prompts, share a few sentences and join conversations about the difficulties intermediate learners experience.
These spaces are free and participation is optional. Detailed corrections and personal feedback from one text to the next remain part of the Write Your French program.
Learn with Olivia
I’m Olivia Quetier, the founder of Oxford French Language Studio. I offer personalised French lessons for adults in Oxford and online, as well as Write Your French, the studio’s weekly online writing programme.
I also use writing to improve my own English: journaling, rewriting corrected sentences, and collecting words I actually need. That experience shapes Write Your French.
What learners are already saying
Early learners are already writing several texts, returning with questions from their corrections, and using their own French to work on writing and speaking. The short quotations below come from their first messages.
Anonymized and lightly edited from early learner messages.
“I write with a lot of pleasure.”
“I am looking forward to being part of this small group. I am working on both my writing and my speaking.”
“I am happy with this way of learning. I am staying.”
“Thank you for creating this space so we can keep writing.”
Write regularly and improve from one text to the next. Receive personal feedback on the French you actually use, understand your recurring difficulties, collect phrases that belong to your life, and gradually express yourself in clearer, more natural French.
The full program also includes Listen & Write, short focused lessons and a weekly live session from 19 September 2026 to practise speaking from your own words.
Free Starter Kit
Start writing in French gently.
Get seven gentle prompts to turn the French you understand into French you can use.