Learn French, have a good command of the French language and start an international career .
While English is considered as the international working and business language, having a good command if French is still considered the language of the well-educated , leading to top executive positions 
Even today, most well educated individuals with university degrees speak and understand French. To speak French is an asset for anyone interested in working in international organisations and travelling extensively throughout the world because of their professional obligations

Learning and mastering French at a high level  will open all the doors for you to French speakers  in international corporations on all the continents around the world. French is the native language of some 200 million people and is the second language of millions more. In Europe, it is the official language in France, Belgium, Switzerland änd Luxembourg , while in other European countries , it is spoken by millions of others as a second language.
In the Americas, it is one of the official languages of Canada and spoken throughout Caribbean in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haîti , Guiana and in dialect form in the state of Louisiana . According to recent researches done in the area of greater Los Angeles , about 200.000 people from French language origins, up to and including the third generation, are still speaking French.
If you want to include yourself with these people, learn French in its native country , France , and study French with our worldwide program . If you are an educated native English speaker and speak a nearly fluent French, you have very attractive employment potentials for French corporations operating in English speaking markets .

Why learn French .... and how to speak French ? It is the language of the well-educated in parts of Southeast Asia , North Africa like Tunisia, Algeria and Marocco , much of Western and Central Africa , not to mention many countries in the Middle-East like Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Egypt . Take a French language course, start studying and learning basic French vocabulary and pronunciation in French classes and feel how comfortable and easy it can be .

The French language is your password to enter the European Union the EU .Our French language school in Saint-Raphael every summer welcomes dozens of executives and employees on the European Union who are relocating to Brussels and who need French for their daily lives and work. Their main offices and headquarters are located in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg , three locations where the French is the most prevalent language . After English, French is the second largest language spoken among all the international bodies . Today the EU community has a population over 275 million, where the newcomers from Eastern Europe have an advantage because in the old soviet system, most of the well educated learned French at school as the first foreign language ..

Learn how to speak French and be part of the French speaking community : Having French as an official working language in the United Nations in New York, the UNESCO and UNICEF in Paris, NATO in Brussels, the International Red Cross in Geneva and the international  courts in Luxembourg . To be fluent in French or having a good understanding of French is a must for anyone planning on a career working for international organisations
Visit the European Union's Web site for careers : http://europa.eu/epso/index_en.htm and browse among all the options. After you attended one of ours summer course, we would be delighted to help with Certificates and evaluation tests to enclose as documents in your C.V, 
Our school provided already dozens of qualified single translators and interpreters of the Scandinavian languages to Luxembourg .

If you are a native English speaker ans want to invest time and energy learning French, our French language school will offer you an efficient and rapid way to learn French at our French language summer courses during your summer holidays.
Once you've learned French sufficiently, there are numerous of opportunities for you to get a well paid position in a French corporation.
Even if they won't admit it, the French have a very sympathetic attitude toward those who are fluent in English.
Because of their own language shortcomings in this field, the French admire them and will hire the services of a native speaker providing they fit the employment requirements and espacially if they can also express themselves in French .

Learning French in France while on holidays on the French Riviera  is an efficient and rapid way to improve your French skills , learning the language with skilled native French teachers, used to teach French as a foreign language  . . This gives you the guarantee of quality courses with lessons given in small groups of 6 - 8 students and adapted to each student´s capacity.
Have a look at the picture of our skilled French instructors in our Web site , in the primary link " learning " and further in the sub-link " general information "

Learn basic French language skills within a two-week session  and feel the pleasure of being operational in easy conversational French with our special program described in the link " Courses " and further at the bottom of the sub-link " Adult Summer Courses " . This is a very efficient and special program intended for first-timers who don' t give up. At a very reasonable package price, for tuition & accommodation fees of 990 Euros all included, with such details as : max 6 students per group, full tuition 4 hrs/day including lodging with a French family in a single room plus breakfast or in a double room with half pension that also includes dinner 7 days/week .

The French language vocabulary derives from Latin , and from Latin come all the other Romance languages, for example, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian . When you learn, study and speak French, you also have a handle on all these other Romance languages as well. Even in English , a good part of its vacabulary is derived from French ! Why ? . The Norman Conquest at the Battle of Hastings in England in 1066. William the Conqueror and his countymen brought French into Anglo-Saxon .

French is a language of feelings, poetry and love . Traditions and clichés pretend to limit the French language  into those bounderies . It' s true that Molière, Dumas, Hugo and Camus made a great contribution to the fame of French literature but even today new authors, musicians, cinema artists and composers add to this language' s renown. The French language still enjoys an updated image that include high debates on TV, radio and Internet coverage about French fashion designers, writers, chefs, filmmakers, painters , gastronomy and architecture ..

Search and discover the French language within technology and medicine . A field often neglected by foreign researchers . French scholars are often very good at mathematics and laboratory experiments but less skilled at promoting themselves through modern marketing . Many researchers remain unknown, especially if they are alone . For example , Dr .Luc Montagnier discovered the virus HIV but shares this distinction with a far better known American collegue. Dr. Anthony Gallo .
Other worldwide well-known French technical achievements are for example : The TGV high speed train, the Concorde Airplane, the Airbus success story in Toulouse, the Ariane launch rocket program in Guiana , the Gemini IT research Center, the Sophia Antipolis campus outside Nice ( France's Silicon Valley ) and lastly, but far from least, the internatinal fame of Parfume and cosmetic industry, exclusive Haute Couture , wines and Champagnes export and the French cuisine ..

Our French language school : FRANCE LANGUE & CULTURE , located on the French Riviera ( in French: Côte d' Azur), in the little cosy and un-snobbish town of Saint-Raphael , is a high quality French language school that provides language training courses in France. This is one of the best language schools for people from abroad who are interested n learning the French language. It combines studying French with the possibility of enjoying a vacation along the coastline of the Mediterranean .
After 33 continuous years  offering summer courses activities in France, we are one of the most recognized French language schools in France

They all wish to visit France !. Regardless if they speak French or not ...Alone or with Tour Operators .. They cannot resist !.
Did you know that France is the number one tourist destination in Europe ( perhaps in the world ) with about 75 million visitors each year for a total population of 65 million people . This is very strange since the France government does not take any special measures to promote tourist through travel agencies or publicity on TV channels, ( as other Mediterranean countries do .. ) and despite the old cliché talking about the " arrogance " of the French people  toward visitors, which is not true at all . At least not today .  Most visitors come to France on their own. Testimonials and recommendations from friends and relatives are often the best publicity . Most of the foreign visitors cannot imagine traveling to France without visiting the capital, Paris .
This is the reason why we include a weekend discovery tour to Paris in our program at an affordable package price ..

FRANCE LANGUE & CULTURE is a Low Cost French Language School . We have always been proud of this .
Since our beginning 33 years ago, our policy has been to offer reasonable prices both for tuition and lodging fees. And this is possible because we are a French language summer school with low administrative / management costs , low-priced but good accommodation options, but excellent and well-paid teachers . They are our investment in excellence . They love to teach and show it in our classes . They know how to handle the approach of French as a foreign language ...

Last but not least : our little coastal town of Saint-Raphael is an un-snobbish typical French community without  luxury cars on the streets and international jet-set people whose presence push up the price levels like in Monte Carlo, Nice, Cannes or Saint-Tropez ..
Since the very beginning, all our  mentioned lodging facilities are provided at cost by the school.: Families, Apartments and Hotels : This at-cost service also applies for lunches with our teachers, our excursions, sports activities and airport transfers. Our reward is only from the tuition fees and your satisfaction with our French school.

The reason why we have so many students each summer is that we provide learning facilities not only for private individuals but also for professionals, entire families, high school and college students, teenagers as weill as children.
We would feel embarrased trying to boast in this press release on how good our school is !.. The best way ot check us out is to visit our Web site , read the testimonials and / or call a person close to your location who appears as a reference .. They volunteer to appear in the list because they were very pleased with their French language course with us and want to share their experience with others ...

About the French language

French is spoken as a mother tongue or fluently by around 175 million people worldwide, of whom 65 million live in France itself.

It is also spoken in many other parts of the world including Canada (particularly Quebec), Belgium, Switzerland, numerous countries throughout North, Central, and West Africa, as well as some Asian countries.

So why learn French?

It's a beautiful language
Undeniably romantic, French is generally considered to be one of the most beautiful in the world.

It's useful
As well as the vast number of people who speak French worldwide, it's also an important language of business, as well as being used as an official language in many international organisations such as the E.U, United Nations, UNESCO  and NATO.

It's rewarding
Any trip or stay in France will be greatly enriched if you take some time to learn a little of the language. The French you meet will be sure to encourage your efforts to learn it.

How to learn French ?


The aim of this Press Release is to provide a high quality language resource for those who wish to learn how to speak French.