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May 22nd, 2020

Good News from Alpine French School: Summer 2020

Getting ready for Summer! Alpine French School is pleased to announce that we have received government authorisation to open for Summer 2020 and to run our Adult French Courses this summer and also our French Summer Camps :) Social distancing and extra sanitary measures have been put in place to…

May 5th, 2020

What I’ve noticed schooling my bilingual expat children during lockdown – from a language teacher’s point of view

Lockdown has been a unique situation for all of us. We have all had our own challenges during this time. On top of this, many of us have had the challenge of home-schooling our children. My children were born in France, they went to a French childminder (nounou) from an early…

April 28th, 2020

French Online Courses Via Skype, Zoom, Whatsapp or Facetime

2020 is a strange year so far….it started off ok but with the distant news of a new Coronavirus and within 3 months, our worlds were turned upside down. With a large part of the world’s population in lockdown or quarantine, we have had to adapt to new working conditions,…

April 21st, 2020

Learn French Online via Zoom

Zoom French Online Lessons Alpine French School has been teaching French via Skype for years but since the lockdown because of Coronavirus around the world, more and more online platforms have become popular. Our teachers have been trying various different online platforms during their online French courses for adults and…

April 12th, 2020

Special Coronavirus Government Training Grant

The French government has been working hard to try and preserve its economy through the Coronavirus pandemic. It has put several measures in place to try and protect French businesses and their employees. The latest government funding package relates to employees who are on temporary unemployment ‘chômage partiel’ because of…