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Intensive French Courses in Samoëns

Looking for a holiday with a difference?
Our Intensive French Courses will give a big boost to your French with 10 or 15 hours of tuition a week while letting you make the most of what our beautiful area offers: skiing, snowboarding in winter, hiking, biking in the summer and fantastic scenery year-round.
The perfect language holiday option.

Intensive Courses - for the full immersion

Give your French a big boost in a short time
Learn French AND enjoy what the mountains and area have to offer
Small groups of 4 to 8 students
Friendly, supportive & relaxed atmosphere
Focus on relevant real-life communication
Same-level students

How Does it Work?

Winter: January to mid-March
10 hour intensive French courses - 4 to 6pm
Summer: July & August
15 hour intensive French courses - timings depending on week
Spring & Autumn: out of high season
Courses available, subject to demand

Course Information

Our 2023 Winter Intensive Courses

Our 2023 Winter courses will run from January to mid March from 4 to 6pm, leaving you all day to enjoy the slopes and our beautiful area!

Every level may not run every week – please contact us for more info.

Intensive French Courses: What to expect

Your 2 or 3 hour lessons are divided between different skills and will include lots of speaking practice with games, group activities to boost your level and confidence and really let you have a go!
Our teachers are experienced, qualified, and passionate. They work hard to ensure your learning experience is the best, and to offer a different approach from the old school days!
Classes are taught in small groups which means students get more personal attention and teachers can focus on the group’s needs.
Our school caters to all levels, from beginner to advanced.
People from all over come to our beautiful village so you’re likely to meet folks from a variety of different backgrounds making for a great classroom atmosphere.
Private tuition is also available for even more immersion.

Let us know your level!

We assess our students’ level before each course. Save time by filling our online evaluation form.

Why choose Alpine French School Samoëns?

Alpine French School Samoëns is an established language school in the Vallée du Giffre. We select our staff very carefully to ensure everyone has the same objective: making learning French approachable and enjoyable. Our teacher are qualified, experienced, and passionate. They keep up to date with the latest teaching practices in order to perfect their teaching skills.

Everyone at Alpine French School Samoëns has learned another language, so we understand the challenges our students face and have made it our goal to help them overcome them.

Last but not least, we also all live here for a reason: our love of the mountains and everything they have to offer year round. So if you’re coming to Samoëns for a holiday, we are probably on the same page!

I have had several courses of lessons with Alpine French School in the last three years and can highly recommend them. I was virtually a beginner when I moved to the Morzine area and can now get by quite comfortably running my business and dealing with every day life in France. Helen has always been incredibly helpful and organised my yearly training budget so that I receive my lessons for free. The teachers have been great too, I have only had one week of lessons with Debs but she was fantastic. I have had all of my recent lessons with Christelle and she is brilliant. She is good at reading the class and tailoring the lessons accordingly. I have had a mixture of intensive courses, group and private lessons and all have been very beneficial. The weekly conversational classes are great too just to keep up the practise in a positive learning environment. I’m looking forward to starting up with lessons again soon!

- Carol Tratt

I had lessons with Alpine French School and enjoyed every minute. It was both challenging and rewarding and I would recommend it to anyone, even if you are a fairly fluent French speaker already. The Alpine French School staff helped organise all the funding too so the whole process was hassle free from start to finish

- Rebecca Malthouse

“The lesssons although structured, are also flexible to take account of all the students’ needs. Highly recommended”

- Annelie Chappell

The teachers were fantastic – well informed and enthusiastic! They both conveyed great enthusiasm and got us to overcome our demons. Their approaches varied and the pace was well-judged

- Jan Alcock

“Professional and experienced teachers with a great balance of work and fun”

- Shona Carnegie

I enjoyed everything about the course! The structure of the week was really good. Day on day developing what you had done the day before and building from there. A great learning experience and never felt like it was too much. The teacher was fantastic!

- Tadhg Ryan

“Everything about the course was good, a good blend of everything I had wanted before the course started, plus loads that I didn’t realise I needed”

- Karen Brock

“I enjoyed learning new vocab and speaking French with people of a similar standard”

- Bethan Bodaszewski

“Christelle teaches in a fun way, making it easy to learn”

- Corinna De Vries

“I got my lessons for free using a government training budget organised by Alpine French School”

- Karen Lees

“Great structured lessons”

- John Taylor

“I am sad to have to stop my lessons – this is a very first for me and this is a glowing testament to our teacher who inspires confidence and makes the otherwise daunting subject of French grammar seem far less so. She brought boundless energy and above all fun to the lessons. Also she was flexible in keeping the subject varied and interest levels high”

- Russell Parsons

Je suis heureux d’annoncer que nous avons tous deux bien reussi l’examen de “Open University”, malgré tous les soucis. En fait, Lindsay m’a battu! De tout facon, tout le monde est tres content. Nous vous remercions une fois encore de votre aide.

- Chris Parry

L’été était parfait pour moi à Morzine! Les leçons étaient très bien et je pense que j’ai fait des progrès! Et pour moi aussi l’organisation était super, merci pour tous! Je ne vais pas oublier cet été à Morzine. On se voit bientôt, je reviens en Janvier pour skier :)

- Patricia Lauber

Thank you for the week’s intensive French Courses. Tricia and I really enjoyed our weeks and both of us thought that our tutor was excellent. We look forward to booking some further lessons when we can.

- Andrew Grimmer