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Real life chit-chat & gossip you might have with your friend, with your neighbour, somebody you meet at the bar, your in-laws etc… This lesson is authentic socialising!
How to : use questions, answer properly, talk about your work, explain directions, answer the phone, talk about your past experiences, shopping language…… This session is designed to help you with what you dread the most!
How to understand what people say to you more easily, develop easy techniques to improve your comprehension, using real life materials like radio extracts, film trailers, comedy sketches… This is what everybody desperately needs to work on as it is just the way children naturally learn a language; listen and copy!
An important session dealing with the way we instinctively translate from our mother tongue to a foreign language split seconds before we utter words. You will learn to avoid or correct recurrent mistakes due to word to word translation which is not always effective! Alpine French School has developed this unique lesson which will give the tools to avoid common mistakes which often prevent native speakers from understanding you.
Do you find it frustrating not to be able to understand an article of interest in a newspaper or magazine, a poster announcing a special event, sign-posts or an email/ letter/advert which could be useful for your business. This option will help you develop skills to recognize French language structures and to broaden your vocabulary.
Do you need to be able to write simple letters or emails ? Learn appropriate registers of the language to enable you to distinguish between formal and friendly correspondence. You will learn about French manners as well as different ways of using the language to help you to understand how native speakers use the language. This sessions is indispensable to avoid upsetting people who are trying to help or understand you!
When you want to express yourself in a foreign language, there is an incredible amount of words and expressions that you need to learn. This session enables you to cover areas adapted to your needs:
Regardless of how many lessons you have, how much grammar you learn, if you don’t pronounce words correctly, people will struggle to understand you or will misunderstand you… Accurate pronunciation is a must! This is the session to make your life in France so much easier and make speaking French rewarding instead of frustrating!
We accept students of all ages for our private French courses. We also offer semi-private lessons for 2-3 students of a similar level and often have couples, friends or colleagues who take lessons together.
If you would like to book or receive more information, or if you have any questions, please email us via our booking form We evaluate all of our students and discuss their detailed objectives to ensure that our teachers are fully informed of your level, aims and any specific needs appropriate to your course.
Our ‘Family Camp’ is one of our most popular options for parents and children to study with us during the summer season, but it’s also the option that we get asked the most questions about! So we thought we’d put together a quick blog for the ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ and…
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Did you book onto an intensive winter course at our school in Morzine? Well lucky you! During our lessons, we like to focus on conversation, which is complemented by those pesky grammar points and comprehension, but the ultimate goal is to get you to be able to communicate with French…
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Being in September and easing into interseason work, the AFS team wanted to reflect on summer 2022, and what a summer it has been! Following our extremely successful juniors summer day camp, adult intensive group courses as well as weeklies and private lessons , we are pleased to have…
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Winter is over and the inter-season is finally here! So why not take this down time to enrol in one of our French group courses this spring. Have a look through our online booking system below for all the courses, days and times available: https://bookeo.com/alpine_french_school Face-to-face group courses…
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This week’s phrase is “En avoir ras le bol” in French or “to be sick of it” or “fed up with it” in English.
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All courses available either in person or via Skype or Telephone. Please contact us for more information
Vous recherchez des Cours d'Anglais? Cliquez-ici.