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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The French course designed for current and aspiring Flight Attendants
Hello from the Moroccan desert, near Merzouga, Morocco. Bonjour du désert marocain, près de Merzouga, Maroc.
Flight Attendant French Phrases to return (and picture souvenirs from Morocco)...when I get a better internet connection.
English: To restart
French: Redémarrer
Often, mechanical issues occur when the airplane’s computer system gives fault indications. One way that maintenance may ask the pilots to address the issue is to do a system restart. Restarting the computer system or a certain component of the computer system may fix the fault indication. Your pilots may announce that they’re doing a system restart of some sort and you may need to translate that into French.
Démarrer=To start, to start up (in the sense of setting something in motion or switching something on)
Redémarrer=To restart
If your airplane also has onboard WiFi or an inflight entertainment system and you run into technical problems with them in flight, you may need to perform a restart of these systems as well to try to fix them.
Module 3 of Canadian French for Flight Attendants is available. Learn the French that flight attendants commonly use on the job: greet passengers, stow bags, drink and meal orders, duty-free service, seat changes, wheelchair requests, weather announcements and much more!
Modules 1 and 2: French basics and pass your flight attendant French test.
Flight Attendant Souvenirs. Souvenirs d’un agent de bord. Tofino, British Columbia. June 2014. Tofino, Colombie-Britannique. Juin 2014. This was on a trip I took to Tofino, which is a town on the Pacific coast of Vancouver Island, known worldwide for its surfing. I stayed across the water from Tofino, on a smaller island with a mountain. A group of us hiked up the mountain and enjoyed the view from atop. I did take a surfing lesson afterwards but it sure was hard. I was eventually able to stand on the surfboard…for a couple of seconds, before falling down again.
English: Connecting passengers
French: Passagers en correspondance
Sometimes, you’ve boarded most of your passengers but you’re still waiting for delayed connecting passengers. Procedures vary of course, but generally, operation managers (and not the pilots, nor the agents inside the airport) will make the decision to hold the flight for connecting passengers or not. If your flight is holding for connecting passengers, you may need to make an announcement advising your passengers and translating that announcement into French.
Passagers en correspondance=Connecting passengers
Passager=Passenger (m)
Passagère=Passenger (f)
En=In
Correspondance (f)=Correspondence, connection (transport)
In Canada, you’ll often hear your passengers use the word “connexion (f)” to mean “connection” (transport). Nevertheless, the formal word for “connection” in French, in the context of train or flight connections, is ‘’correspondance’’.
Module 3 of Canadian French for Flight Attendants is available. Learn the French that flight attendants commonly use on the job: greet passengers, stow bags, drink and meal orders, duty-free service, seat changes, wheelchair requests, weather announcements and much more!
Modules 1 and 2: French basics and pass your flight attendant French test.
Flight Attendant Souvenirs. Souvenirs d’un agent de bord. Okinawa, Japan. February 2015. Okinawa, Japon. Février 2015. Wrapping up my trip to Japan, I flew back to Tokyo on one of Japan’s airlines, ANA (All Nippon Airways). In the back of their inflight magazine (as with most airlines’ inflight magazines), you can see the specifications of all the aircraft in their fleet. At the bottom of the page, it was nice to see that they had the Millennium Falcon in their fleet. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to fly the Millennium Falcon between Okinawa and Tokyo.
