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Just a quick email to let you know that next week our sister website NativeSpeakerTeachers.com is having its 2026 January Sale, which means that one-to-one Italian/French/Spanish/German lessons can be had a fifth cheaper than usual.

Use regular online meetings with a native speaker teacher of the language you’re learning to give structure to your self-study, and for that essential practice speaking and interacting!

On Saturday 27th December 2025 we’ll be emailing their coupon code so students of Italian, Spanish, French and German can save 20% on lesson credits purchased at NativeSpeakerTeachers.com.

Watch out for the email with the coupon code on Saturday 27th December 2025. In the meantime, why not explore the free materials at OnlineFrenchClub.com?

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Bonjour!

Over the last week or so we’ve been tidying up our website for people learning French, OnlineFrenchClub.com, specifically the ten Grammar exercises, the idea being to remove some old advertising code, delete the contents of the page footer – which contained an invalid email address – and so on. Very belated spring-cleaning.

We downloaded the web pages, made the corrections, uploaded everything to the server again, and thought no more about it. Until…

Someone emailed to say the accented characters were all missing.

Oops! How did that happen?

Turns out that our pages were written in ANSI, which is a ‘character set’, the purpose of which being that web browsers and other applications know to display, for instance, an accented ‘e’ rather than a normal ‘e’.

French has, what, three or four different ‘e’s? So that’s important.

But the world moved on, leaving ANSI and us behind. The new default ‘character set’ is called UTF-8, apparently, which shouldn’t be a problem necessarily, except that the software I used to modify our webpages assumed they were written in UTF-8, even if they weren’t, so when I came to save my changes, BOOM, DISASTER, all the accented characters disappeared.

To cut a long story short, I spent the weekend fixing everything. The French Grammar exercises now hopefully have the necessary accented characters, though as I had to repair all hundred and twenty test items (ten exercises, twelve questions in each, sometimes multiple different accented ‘e’s in each word) MANUALLY, it’s quite possible I’ve missed something. Or mixed up the ‘è’s and theh ‘é’s, which is easy to do.

Anyway, apologies for the mess up. Do take a look at the Grammar exercises, and do please let us know if you spot anything that still needs fixing. Merci.

À la semaine prochaine !

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A quick reminder: this week our sister site, NativeSpeakerTeachers.com, is giving away FREE ONE-TO-ONE FRENCH LESSONS (the offer is for new students only.)

This is a promotion they do twice a year when things are otherwise quiet, in February and November.

Twice a year they aim to give away a hundred and fifty free online lessons, normally priced at £22 each.

Try an online lesson with one of their native-speaker teachers, at a cost of exactly ZERO.

You don’t have to buy a lesson to get one free, they won’t even ask for your card details – all they need to organise your lesson is your email address, so their teaching management assistant can contact you.

It’s a genuinely-free offer!

N.B. This promotion is for new students only. The free trial lesson offer is limited to one lesson per person.

To claim your FREE trial one-to-one lesson, follow these links to their online shop:

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Once they’ve received your order (there’s no payment stage, don’t worry), their teaching management assistant will contact you to find out what your needs and preferences are and, importantly, WHEN you’d like to do your free lesson.

That could take a few hours, or as long as a day or two, so be patient. If you don’t see an email from their team in your inbox, please check the spam/junk folders before writing to them. 

N.b. There’s no rush to do the free trial lesson, which doesn’t have to be this week – the offer ends on Sunday night, but that’s just a promotional deadline, not a limit for actually doing the lesson.

• The Free Trial One-to-One French Lesson offer ends on Sunday, 09/11/25
• No need to actually DO the lesson this week, just ‘order’ it
• Remember: this offer is for NEW STUDENTS ONLY
• If you ordered a free trial last time but didn’t take it – do try again!
• But if you’ve already done a free trial in the past, sorry…
• After completing your lesson, you’ll be sent a 15% discount coupon

Ready to order your FREE trial one-to-one lesson?

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