French teacher. Builder of universes. Based in Japan.
I was born in Lyon and spent years crossing cultures — Japan, language, the space between what you want to say and what you can say. Teaching French is how I close that gap for other people.
After a Master's degree in Applied Languages and over 6,000 hours in the classroom, I've worked with students from absolute beginners to those preparing for professional certification. I've trained professionals heading to Francophone countries. I've watched people discover that French isn't as unreachable as they thought — when you start from the right place.
Most French courses make a critical mistake: they start with vocabulary and phrases instead of the phonetic foundation. Students spend months unable to understand native speakers — not because they lack vocabulary, but because their ears were never trained on real French sounds.
Univers Franck starts differently. Module 0 is entirely phonetics, entirely articulatory — meaning you learn to produce French sounds the way French people do, through precise physical positions, not approximations from your native language.
"Je fais des cours de langue pour que tu apprennes à lire mon œuvre."
The modules are the entry point. Behind them is a narrative universe — a world of characters, stories, and ideas that you can only fully access in French. The language isn't a barrier. It's the door.
I'm building that universe in parallel: a serialized narrative, a transmedia world, a reason to care about reaching C1. The language and the story are inseparable.
Japanese learners face one of the largest phonetic distances from French of any language group in the world. That challenge made me a better teacher. The articulatory method I developed works precisely because it doesn't rely on native-language approximations — it teaches French on French's own terms. That works for everyone.