Turn the French words you jot down throughout the day into a tailored 10-minute email ritual, delivered every morning at 8:00 AM. You reply in French, and a detailed correction follows right away. Little by little, the language of your daily life becomes your own.
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From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
Subject: Your exercise of the day · 10 min
Hello Ethan,
Here is your exercise of the day, built from three words in your notebook: “la boulangerie”, “à emporter” and “le voisin”. Translate into French:
“Yesterday at the bakery, I ordered a coffee to go, and my neighbor invited me to dinner.”
Today’s goal: reuse three words you jotted down this week.
Simply reply to this email.
Good luck,
Aldo
The café, the market, the landlord, the metro: every day in France brings new words. You jot them down, you understand a little more each week, yet when it’s your turn to speak, the words don’t come. And the phrases from generic lessons are rarely the ones you hear on your street.
The same phrases for everyone, rarely the French you actually hear at the market, the café or the town hall.
Jotted down on the go, the words pile up page after page, without ever being used again.
You follow the conversation, but the words don’t come when it’s your turn to speak.
ALDO starts from what you hear, read and live in France, whatever your level: from your first “bonjour” at the market to long dinners with your neighbors.
During the day
A word on a menu, a phrase from your landlord, a sign in the metro: whatever catches your eye or your ear.
08:00
A short text to translate into French, built from your notebook and matched to your level.
Right away
A suggested version, the nuances explained, and a score to track your progress.
The following days
Each word returns in a new setting, until it comes to you naturally, out in the street.
The exercise
From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
Subject: Your exercise of the day · 10 min
Hello Ethan,
Here is your exercise of the day, built from three words in your notebook: “la boulangerie”, “à emporter” and “le voisin”. Translate into French:
“Yesterday at the bakery, I ordered a coffee to go, and my neighbor invited me to dinner.”
Today’s goal: reuse three words you jotted down this week.
Simply reply to this email.
Good luck,
Aldo
The correction
From: Aldo <assistant@aldo-learning.com>
« Hier au boulangerie, j’ai commandé un café pour aller, et mon voisin m’a invité pour dîner. »
« Hier à la boulangerie, j’ai commandé un café à emporter, et mon voisin m’a invité à dîner. »
The gender. “Boulangerie” is feminine, which is why your notebook keeps the article: “la boulangerie”. “Au” only works with masculine words, so here it’s “à la”.
Your notebook word. “To go” is not “pour aller”. At the counter, French says “à emporter”, the very expression you jotted down this week.
The preposition. “Inviter” is followed by “à”: “inviter à dîner”, “inviter à prendre un verre”. Never “pour” here.
Score:
16/20.A natural, lively sentence. Your notebook words are well on their way to becoming part of your French.
Tomorrow: “à emporter” will come back, at the café this time.
Keep it up,
Aldo
Page after page, your notebook fills with the places, the faces and the moments of your time in France: your first coffee ordered in French, your first invitation from a neighbor. With ALDO, every word comes back to life, until your notebook holds a whole chapter of your life, written in your own French.
“Technology in the service of people, for more effective learning.”
Technology replaces neither the teacher nor the learner’s effort. It removes friction, keeps learning going between lessons, and multiplies the impact of human connection.
ALDO was born in the classroom. An English trainer for companies and a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, Jade Suzor saw the same thing with every learner: learning doesn’t stop after school, but making progress while working full time is a real challenge. ALDO is the answer: a short, demanding daily ritual that fits into an already full day.
Jade Suzor, founder of ALDO
No. Everything happens in your inbox, the one you already check. No app to install, no password.
Simply, for example by replying to the morning email with your new words. The exact format is being designed: tell us in the questionnaire how you jot down your words today, in a notebook or on your phone.
ALDO can also start from your daily life in France: housing, shopping, work, going out. Your notebook fills up as the exercises go by.
All levels are welcome. Exercises follow the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), from A1 to C2, and adapt as you progress.
10 minutes a day. The exercise arrives at 8:00 AM, and you reply whenever it suits you: over breakfast, on the metro, between two visits.
Yes. A semester or a few months is plenty of time to build a daily habit, and every morning counts from the very first week. And since everything happens by email, you can keep going once you’re back home.
ALDO is opening gradually. People on the waitlist will be the first to hear from us.
They are used only to build ALDO and to contact you about its launch. They are never sold or shared.
A few questions to help us build ALDO with you. It takes about two minutes.
Why “Aldo”? For Assisted Learning Delivered Originally. But above all, it’s a first name: the one that came to mind when the project started. We later found out it was also the name of the owner of our favorite trattoria, in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. A place full of heart and generosity, just like we want every ALDO email to be.
