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Languages have always been, for me, a quiet kind of superpower.

I've spent most of my life moving between languages, cultures and places, and nearly fifteen years teaching other people to do the same. But what has kept me fascinated all this time isn't really the language itself. It's what happens because of it. The people you would never otherwise have spoken to. The joke you suddenly understand. The table you become part of. The moment a place stops feeling quite so foreign because, for once, you understand what is happening around you.

France and Italy give language a different kind of energy. It is there in everything: around the table, at the market, in the mountains, in the villages, in the stories people tell about where they come from and what they make. There is always something worth asking about, and usually someone worth asking. That is what I love about spending a week immersed in French or Italian. The language has a reason to come out. You use it because you want to know something, taste something, understand someone or join the conversation, and little by little it stops feeling like something you have to prepare for.

That's what I wanted these weeks to capture.

I'm there with you throughout the week. To coach you when you need it, give you confidence when you hesitate, laugh with you when the French or Italian goes spectacularly wrong, and spend real time together. More than anything, I want to bring you into the language as it is actually lived: the language of people, places, food, stories, jokes and conversations you suddenly find yourself part of. Whether you arrive with a handful of words or years of the language behind you, I'll meet you there.