Soma

Your students learn French by living in it.

Soma is where learners meet French in songs, stories and pictures — every word explained in their own language, and everything they save brought back before they forget it.

Under the linden trees tonight

The perfume soothes all my thoughts

I am the woman who walks slowly

The city whispers beneath the soft wind

Your hands still search for my path

The streetlights gild all of our secrets

And the lindens perfume all our goodbyes

Breathe, breathe, time comes to a stop

The heart grows calm under these leaves

Our voices blend softly with the light

And the world falls silent under lindens

Your eyes shine like an old summer

I hold back the hours in my smile

But the perfume knows that all must end

Breathe, breathe, time comes to a stop

The heart grows calm under these leaves

Our voices blend softly with the light

And the world falls silent under lindens

Under the lindens, I close my eyes

The perfume gently seals our ending

Sous les tilleuls
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This is the player your students use, explaining French in English. Press play, tap any word, turn the vocals off.

One place to hear it, speak it, see it and keep it.

  • Songs. Sung word by word, each line explained underneath. Tap a word for its meaning and its dictionary form — suis becomes être.

  • Stories. Spoken dialogues where the student can take a part and answer in their own voice.

  • Pictures. The everyday words of French, one image at a time.

  • Review. Everything a student saves comes back in one review, just before it would be forgotten.

Made to sit beside your classes.

Songs can be written around the vocabulary of your own units. The vocals switch off so a whole class can sing. And every line is explained in the language each student thinks in — English, Hindi, Telugu or twenty others.

We would love to show it to your teachers.