• À tous les fadas de Manie Musicale, Je tiens à vous exprimer toute ma gratitude pour la création et le développement de cette compétition bonne enfant.  Aux fondatrices, je tiens à réitérer que votre  initiative innovante qui combine l'apprentissage du français avec le chant et la musique, est tout simplement remarquable et oh combien importante et engageante pour nos apprenants.
  Je tiens particulièrement à souligner que votre activité rapproche beaucoup d’entre nous qui souvent sommes seules dans notre établissement. C'est un réel bonheur de pouvoir se connecter à une communauté partageant les mêmes intérêts et passions et partageant l’amour de la langue de Molière.

Merci pour votre dévouement et votre passion à rendre l'apprentissage du français accessible et agréable pour tous.
(Fanny Clonch, Curie HS, Chicago, April 2024)

• Feeing blessed this morning, to be a part of this incredible journey… What an impressive undertaking by such passionate and inspiring human beings!  Being a newbie this year, I have been following all convo here and on your FB Page. It only takes a few minutes each day to keep up. I highly recommend this practice to people wishing to sign up for the first time. The main website has also been a saving grace for me with all the introductory videos and highly organized Google drive. The videos helped me understand that the drive doesn’t have to be overwhelming when you decide first, whether you wish to participate in a “mild, medium, or spicy” way. 

• The other thing I found useful was to grab items posted on FB which were timely, easy to locate using the search option, or updated versions of what is placed in the drive. Often what is being discussed in FB is getting rave reviews so I couldn’t go wrong. (And, since this lovely and supportive community catches typos/errors, human mistakes are caught early in the kindest of manners. 

• Thank you to the team for going above and beyond your (paid) day jobs to provide this amazing competition for students and teachers alike!  Already, I cannot wait until next year! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

• The amazing diversity of the artists in this year’s bracket has not gone unnoticed. One of my students, who is of Cameroonian descent, commented out loud today,   ”What is this?! Almost all of these artists are black and look like me!”. He is one of maybe 2-3 black kids in my small high school, and he is both thrilled and surprised to have so much diversity represented in the playlist. It makes a difference. (Madame Fitzgerald, South Shore of Massachusetts, 2023)

• My students (in the Berkshires, Massachusetts) look forward to the Manie every year. This year they are excited for artists like Maître Gims and Stephane Legar to reappear.  It is a breath of fresh air - un bol d’air frais! We love it!  (Madame Dupuis, Lenox Memorial Middle and High School, Lenox, MA, février 2021)

• From Aidan G. at Falmouth Middle School, after Madame Fournier complimented him on his score on a Lyrics Training assignment:  I only got the score that I did because ever since last year when I heard one of Vitaa et Slimane other songs with the Manie Musicale (Ça va ça vient) I have been listening to other songs that they wrote and I heard this song (ça ira) pretty close to when it first came out and I really liked it. I am glad that you assigned it because it is one of my favorites and it helps me move through the day.