With over a million followers on Instagram, the account Hello French has become in a few months a must on social networks, especially abroad, for learning French. And not just any. Cecilia Jourdan, a Parisian living in New York, leaves grammar notes in the closet and prefers expressions from everyday life.
In Account Videos @hellofrenchnyc on Instagram, the dialect is a mixture of English and French practiced by a thirty-year-old with brown hair and sparkling eyes. For Cécilia Jourdan, it all started three years ago, during confinement, in the United States.
” I have been an ”expat” for 15 years now, she tells us. I had this desire to create Hello French to promote French, the French language, culture… »
Cécilia Jourdan plays with the expressions that reveal, according to her, our attitudes as grumpy or deeply romantic French people. Clichés with which she likes to play. She embodies, for example, a particularly unpleasant Parisian woman by highlighting, of course, the vocabulary that is hers.
” Spoken French is not written French. The language of Molière is very beautiful, but in reality, spoken French is not formal French “, she explains.
The French installed across the Atlantic has more than a million subscribers, which is necessarily more than the French Academy… which does not have an Instagram account. A proof perhaps of the success of his method, which notably gives a little more space to swear words than to grammar.