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Cultural Activities in Toulouse, France
Learning a language also means discovering a different culture and way of life. At Langue Onze Toulouse we propose a varied and stimulating programme of extra-curricular activities to give you deeper insight into French history, culture and customs, as well as introducing you to the city of Toulouse. Excursions in the region will allow you to explore local gastronomy - foie gras, salade de chevre chaud (toasted goat cheese), magret de canard, saucisse de Toulouse, cassoulet and violet ice cream, its wines and liqueurs – and learn about the fascinating rebellious political, religious and economic history of the Southwest of France.
Our Cultural Program offers a wide range of activities which take place in the afternoons and evenings. All activities are accompanied by a teacher or French-speaking staff member and most activities are held in French, giving you extra time to practice and improve in fluency.
Your first day welcome to the school and Toulouse includes an information packet detailing upcoming events, hints on what to do and see in town, a guided walking tour of the city and an optional lunch in a typical Toulousan restaurant.
Throughout your course, several afternoons or evenings per week will find you exploring new corners of la ville rose; dancing, dining and taking in concerts and shows, swimming, hiking, cycling along the Canal du Midi; attending conferences and films in French, playing Pétanque or taking a riverboat cruise at sunset. The program includes regular visits to Toulouse features such as the Airbus aircraft assembly line and the Cité de l'Espace.
With its multitude of cultural organizations, museums and more than 20 annual festivals of music, dance, film and art year-round, in Toulouse there's always something happening.
Excursions
In the summer months, on many weekends we offer optional excursions to points of interest in the Toulouse region:
Carcassonne - an impressive walled mediaeval city boasting 3 km of ramparts, 52 towers, castle and cathedral, restored in the 19th century by the renowned architect Viollet-le-Duc.
Albi- birthplace of the troubadours and Langue d'Oc, its centre ville intact from the Middles Ages, the city of Albi is the site of the Toulouse-Lautrec museum & the fantastically frescoed cathedral Sainte-Cécile, one of the largest brick edifices in the world.
Pyrenees – superb winter skiing and sports & hiking year-round in this magnificent mountain range only 100 km south of Toulouse, on the French border with Spain.
Mediterranean shore – sun and fun at the beach in seaside villages from Sète to Narbonne & along the coasts of French Catalonia.
Cultural Activities in Montpellier, France
The first day of class: A regional wine and cheese tasting will help the students as well as the staff get to know each other and create a friendly atmosphere.
Moreover, we offer a free guided tour of Montpellier which will enable you to not only learn about the history and the culture but also to find your way around.
Year-round Activities
Our program of cultural and social activities provides you with an excellent and unique opportunity outside of classes to learn more about the economic, cultural and social aspects of France.
All year round our complimentary cultural program is offered à la carte and includes: guided visits, cultural excursions, cinema, shows, sports activities, discovery clubs (oenology, singing, pottery, traditional dances).
Extra Summer Activities
During July and August, we offer extra cultural and social activities. Each week you will be able to pick and choose from a wide variety of activities according to your mood.
Prices range from no charge to 30 euros per activity.
Capital of Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier is an ideal place to discover a lively city and some of the world's most prestigious heritage sites.
Accommodation Options in Toulouse, France
Our professional accommodation service helps make your stay in Toulouse a rounded experience of French culture and daily life. Our host families and houseshares in Toulouse are careful selected and regularly inspected, to ensure that your 'home in Toulouse' will be friendly, welcoming and clean.
Rest assured that all of the private accommodation we propose to students for the duration of their Intensive French course is right in the city centre or a short ride to the school on public transportation. All accommodation is fully furnished, and bedding, clean sheets and towels are provided.
Our accommodation service includes free airport transfer (round-trip) or pick-up and return to the Toulouse train or bus station.
Accommodation with meals in the home of a French family or French hosts
In France, the evening meal is central, the moment to sit down with your family and spend a relaxing hour discussing the day. Take your meals around the table with a French host family: you'll enjoy local specialities and classic French dishes while you see first-hand how the French live at home.
We recommend this accommodation option for students who want a fuller immersion in French daily life and extra conversation practice, all while sampling the world-famous French cuisine. Accommodation options include: half-board (breakfast and dinner) or full-board (breakfast, dinner + a bag lunch).
Accommodation in a shared flat with French housemates, including access to cooking facilities
Practice your French with local residents in shared, self-catering flats or houses. You'll have a private single or double room plus access as you please to fully-equipped cooking facilities, bathroom/WC and all the communal areas – sometimes including balconies or private gardens. We recommend this option to students who prefer a more independent environment. You will be sharing with native French speakers and sometimes other international students.
Other Accommodation options
We also propose Bed & Breakfast, «Executive» rooms with added comfort and private bathrooms, and self-catering studio apartments in Toulouse. Or we can reserve a room for you in a hotel or Appart'hotel (hotel room with cooking facilities). For further information, ask us!
Accommodation Options in Montpellier, France
In order to help you organize your stay in Montpellier, Odyssea French School provides you with different accommodation possibilities to cater for all its students' needs and preferences.
Homestay
We highly recommend this type of accommodation as you will keep practicing your French outside of class.
The selected host families are bound by a quality contract with IMEF. We will send you a personal information sheet with the registration confirmation and you will be informed of the host family's address before arriving in Montpellier.
Two options are offered:
-Bed & breakfast : single room with breakfast each day of the week.
-Half-board: single room with breakfast and dinner each day of the week.
Pick up service at the airport or train station: free of charge
Shared apartments:
It is the least expensive way of lodging: private bedroom with kitchen and shared bathroom. In general there are 2 to 3 students per apartment. The selected apartments are bound by a quality contract with IMEF.
Accommodation in Residence Appart Hotel**
Our high standard Residence ** has 96 apartments on 7 floors fully equipped with private kitchenette and bathroom, providing a friendly environment where you can work, relax or rest.
The residence is located in the south of Montpellier in a quiet, residential district (10 minutes from the historic centre of Montpellier) just 15 minutes away from the Mediterranean beaches by car.
We can also make a reservation in hotels.
French Course Program in Toulouse
In today's complex multinational and multilingual world, interest in studying foreign languages is ever increasing. In every field, from industry to commerce to the arts and media, the person who masters several languages has an advantage in employment and promotion as well as in his personal development and success.
Flexible and dynamic teaching methods and current themes will develop your confidence in communicating in today's world and let you practice a language that's up-to-date and real.
French Courses all year round at all levels
We offer 6 different course levels: Basic (A1-A2), Independent (B1-B2) and Proficient (C1-C2). You can reserve a French course from 1 week up to several months.
Our curriculum corresponds to the official levels established by the Council of Europe in the «Common European Framework of Reference: Learning, Teaching, Assessment» (CEFR). Each level takes 6 weeks to master in the Standard Intensive Course.
General French Courses
The Standard Intensive Course with 4 group lessons per day (20 group lessons per week) allows you to balance study with cultural and leisure activities.
The Combined French Course, designed to address specific professional or academic goals, complements the group course with 4 to 10 individual lessons per week, one-to-one with a teacher.
The Individual French Course offers accelerated learning in a highly personalized setting, for rapid general proficiency. Can be focused on professional or academic goals.
Specialized French Courses
- Intensive Junior Courses for adolescents 14 to 18 during the summer and school holidays, including fun educational outings and activities and homestay accommodation with meals.
- DELF – DALF exam preparation courses before every exam date in Toulouse.
- Language & professional internship programmes in Toulouse: gain practical experience of the French working world.
- Afternoon French Courses for Au Pairs in Toulouse; course content and hours adapted for Au Pairs.
Teacher Training, Extensive evening courses & afternoon courses for Au Pairs in Toulouse, Business French, Technical / Professional French, French Language & Cooking. Enquire for further information!
Reduced prices for long-term courses and discounts for groups of 2 or more people. Our courses take place throughout the year and classes are kept small, with a maximum of 12 per group.
| French Courses in Toulouse | ||
| Standard French Course | Intensive French Course | |
| 20 lessons / week - 50' | 20 + 4 lessons / week - 50' | |
| 1 week | 450,- EUR | |
| 2 weeks | 390,- EUR | 740,- EUR |
| 3 weeks | 565,- EUR | 1080,- EUR |
| 4 weeks | 690,- EUR | 1370,- EUR |
| 5 weeks | 1690,- EUR | |
| 6 weeks | 995,- EUR | 2000,- EUR |
| 7 weeks | 2330,- EUR | |
| 8 weeks | 1280,- EUR | 2620,- EUR |
| Registration fee | 50,- EUR | |
French Course Program in Montpellier
French teaching: in class the teachers ask for an active participation from the students and use a creative method which focuses on practicing the French language, discovering the culture, and promoting intercultural exchange. The teaching objectives emphasize all the communication abilities which are exercised in a practical and fun way, based on authentic documents. Thus, French grammar, pronunciation, and culture are easy to grasp.
We offer general French courses, all year round, for all levels: Standard French courses, French conversation courses, Business French courses, One-to-One French, tailor-made courses, and even placement in an internship with a French business. Our courses are all based upon the Common Reference Language Framework set by the Council of Europe.
Standard French Courses
22 French lessons a week: 20 lessons + 2 free optional workshops
This French course is based on the four pillars of language learning: oral and written comprehension, and oral and written expression. The French Standard Course prepares you for the DELF and DALF, the two French language diplomas recognized throughout the world, which officially certify your French level. The French courses are organized in small groups of 7 people on average. You will use French in relation to everyday life: studies, work, personal pleasure, and you will study the French language and culture with authentic documents (newspapers, songs, photos, audio).
Intensive French Courses
On top of the French Standard Course, we offer 6 individual lessons a week. These individual French courses are adapted to your requirements and your needs as well as your interests.
French Reinforced Courses
28 French lessons a week: French Standard Course + choice of one of the following activities:
Conversation classes: 6 lessons per week
Business French: 6 lessons per week
| French Courses in Montpellier | ||
| Standard French Course | Intensive French Course | |
| 22 lessons / week - 45' | 22 + 6 lessons / week - 45' | |
| 1 week | 225,- EUR | 440,- EUR |
| 2 weeks | 450,- EUR | 880,- EUR |
| 3 weeks | 675,- EUR | 1320,- EUR |
| 4 weeks | 900,- EUR | 1760,- EUR |
| 5 weeks | 1050,- EUR | 2100,- EUR |
| 6 weeks | 1260,- EUR | 2520,- EUR |
| 7 weeks | 1470,- EUR | 2940,- EUR |
| 8 weeks | 1680,- EUR | 3360,- EUR |
| Registration fee | 80,- EUR | |
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Learn French in Toulouse, «France's best kept secret»
Toulouse, named one of the world's «10 Most Dynamic Cities» by the American magazine «Newsweek» (July 2006 International Edition), has a long history of independence, iconoclasm and innovation.
Known as «La ville rose» for the red brick of its historic centre, the history of Toulouse lives in its streets, in its well-preserved 'hôtels particuliers' and the 49 ornamental towers rising from its mediaeval courtyards. Shaped by the resistance of the idealistic Cathars and the flowering culture of the 15th century merchants of pastel, Toulouse continues its inventive traditions into the 21st century as the n°2 centre of the international aerospace industry and a hub of scientific research.
Currently the 4th largest city in France with a population of 430,000 and growing, Toulouse is also France's 2nd most important university town, after Paris, with the first provincial university to be established in France, in the late 13th century.
The presence of some 140,000 students from all over Europe and the world makes Toulouse a city of cafés and terraces, restaurants and dance clubs, music and bookstores, artist collectives, avant-garde performances and public debates, concerts of every style and a world-famous rugby team. Host to more than 20 annual festivals of music, dance, film, art and literature, at any time of year your stay in Toulouse is likely to be punctuated by public light shows, film projections, art installations, live music and dancing in the streets.
Toulouse is a key location to discover Southern France. Its strategic geographic location at the crossroads to the Pyrenees, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coast makes it easy for students to organize their own weekend excursions to the mountains and sea, as well as to historic villages and sites in the region.
Our highlight
Passionately engaged in their social and work environments, Toulousans are also known to have the southerners' talent for taking the time to live well and appreciate life. In this cosmopolitan and dynamic city, Toulousans are open and friendly with visitors, while shopkeepers and waiters will encourage your efforts to speak French.
A typical free evening in Toulouse starts with an «aperitif», continues with a film, concert or performance, followed by a leisurely dinner in a cozy local 'cave' and ending with a stroll to drink a «digestif» and people-watch at another umbrella-roofed terrace café. The Toulousan philosophy of life will leave you an authentic taste of the traditional French way of life.
Learn French in Montpellier – where the sun never sets
Born at the dawn of the 11th century, today Montpellier embarks upon her third millennium, enriched by ten centuries of history: sometimes tumultuous, sometimes dramatic, often brilliant, and always out of the ordinary! Situated in the center of the Languedoc-Roussillon, surrounded by cities and which date back from antiquity, Montpellier stands out as an exception. The city may be over 1000 years old, but she is undoubtedly the most dynamic and vital of the region.
During the Middle Ages, Montpellier began to develop with stunning rapidity. Within a few centuries, she developed from a simple agricultural domain into a first-class educational, economic, and cultural capital. Despite occasional eclipses, Montpellier succeeded in maintaining and developing the role of capital of the Bas-Languedoc. The 18th century was an exceptionally profitable period for the city.
«La belle Méditerranéenne» thus received a rich inheritance. Visitors from all horizons have made it a country of tolerance. Its scholars have taught respect for culture and knowledge. In more recent times, the flow of new populations, the privileged geographical situation and the prestigious institutions of higher learning have given Montpellier a new lease on life. From her compelling history to current day change and vitality, the dynamic quality of Montpellier remains a constant.
Montpellier highlights:
- Centrally located in the South of France, at the heart of Camargue, between Provence and the Pyrenees
- Average of 300 days of sun per year
- A few miles away from the Mediterranean
- One of the most dynamic and cosmopolitan cities in France
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