Petit Déjeuner du Vendredi – Winter/Spring 2025 – In Person

Friday, 7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. (NEW time for January)

Registration is currently closed.
Our last petit déjeuner of 2024 is Le petit déjeuner des fêtes (click on the link to be redirected to the page from where you can sign up).
Our “regular” weekly petit déjeuner will start again in January and registration will open on 1/8/2025.

Location and RULES:
– We will meet in person, at Valérie’s Office – 217 Commercial Street in Portland (you will need to be let in; please arrive on time). There is ample parking available on the street and no parking fees at this time of day.

– Space is limited; for this reason, registration will take place WEEKLY, from Wednesday 12:00 pm until Thursday 12:00 pm or as soon as we have reached full capacity. Sign up early. We will send a weekly reminder around noon on Wednesday. Let us know if you would like to receive these weekly reminders by signing up (for free) below until January 8, 2025. After that, please contact us by email  to be added to the list.

– If we need to cancel a gathering at the last second (it happens, night before or morning of!), we will be in touch with those of you who signed up to attend that particular week. Please always check your email before heading out!

– If we need to skip a week, the line in red at the top of this description will say so, and registration will remain closed that week.

Finally, we reserve to right to cancel a weekly gathering for insufficient enrollment. Your fee will be transferred to another week.

Please make sure to always check your spam box. 

Moderator:  Valerie Guillet
Price: $7.50/person/meeting (non refundable unless we cancel for insufficient enrollment)
Dates: Fridays from 7:45 to 8:45 a.m. from January 10 until June 27 (summer break)

Beginning through advanced speakers are welcome and you do not need to be enrolled in a weekly class to participate. Those of you who have been coming regularly know that an extra hour of conversation practice outside of class, during which any and all topics can surface, is a great way to improve your ability to understand spoken French and communicate when put on the spot.

Please keep in mind that this is not a structured “class” but rather a social gathering during which the only requirement is that you be willing to speak French only as we assist you when needed to keep the conversation flowing.

If you need assistance to determine if this is right for you, we would be happy to help.
Please get in touch.

Last but not least, we kindly ask that you respect the concerns of those who remain vulnerable to Covid and other seasonal diseases due to unrelated health issues. We will assume that you are symptom free when coming to breakfast or wearing a mask if in doubt.  Thank you!

We look forward to seeing you at breakfast very soon!

This is what happens every Friday:

The door opens at 7:40 sharp.

We gather around a large table where cups, plates, and napkins await. Coffee and tea essentials are available, and a strong coffee aroma has already spread throughout the meeting room.

We ask that you bring food items to share whenever possible (not to feed an army! just a croissant or two, or an apple!) and strongly encourage you to visit Standard Baking Co. for the best croissants in town (we have delayed the start of our meetings to 7:45 to enable you to visit Standard Baking!) but if you have another favorite bakery… by all means, introduce us to its products!

New comers are first welcomed and asked to introduce themselves — indeed, why on earth would you get up this early for a cup of strong coffee (organic French roast from Coffee By Design and French style… pas de jus de chaussettes ici!) — and all others are greeted with a casual “Ça va? Quoi de neuf?” and off it goes. Whatever comes up will be discussed, analyzed, criticized, joked about, made fun of, agreed with, and also… corrected by the French language police and their bionic ears! We mostly laugh a lot and can’t wait for the following week after we feel caught up on everyone’s news and on any city or worldly occurrence worth our attention.

Voilà… c’est simple.

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