A card from an Italian lady after completing her French language course in south of France Words from a “learn French in France program” student

Words from a “learn French in France program” student

A card from an Italian lady after completing her French language course in south of France

“Not only is French the language of love, of Moliere, and of the Declaration of human rights, she wrote, but thanks to Elfca language school I discovered that it is also a language that one can learn and use...Thanks to you all for that!”

Well, thanks to you too, dear friend, from all the members of the school team who taught you French language so successfully!

Ecologists learn French in France

Flower power at French language school

Recently, a flower story aroused a lot of emotion at Elfca French language school. An article in the local paper reported that a flower named Armerie de Belgentier, unique in the world and that can only be found in Sollies-Pont area, about 20kms from Hyeres, is in great danger of becoming extinct. In effect, it grows in a zone where an ambitious project is to build a vast holiday complex including a golf course. All local Nature defenders are upset, but also many of the foreigners who study French in the South of France.

French language school in exotic cultivation area

Foreigners who learn French in France discover Provencal saffron

A very confidential farming is back in the Var department. Saffron, the “red gold”, or “gold powder” (50euro/gr.), had been produced in the area for centuries, but the French Revolution, together with a succession of very cold winters and World War 1 had caused this farming to be abandoned. Two families in Montmeyan have just given a new start to the delicate cultivation of “crocus sativus” and their organic saffron is now considered as one of the best in the world. Foreigners who learn French in the South of France tried it in the fish soup at host family’s and found it very fragrant.

English Christmas market for those who study French in France

Participants to French language program go to Chateau de Berne.

On Sunday 16 November at Chateau de Berne was organized the first one of three ritual Christmas markets; all the charm of English traditions to celebrate: decorations, handicrafts, presents, Christmas crackers and of course British specialities such as mince pies and Christmas pudding that ravished all visitors including the group of foreign students who learn French on the Mediterranean coast.

Students at French language school like blankass’ rock.

Spectacle in Marseilles for learners of French in France

Between French song, accordion and rebel rock, the “Blankass” stand by a style they invented in the nineties with their hit “la couleur des bles” for which they were rewarded a “Victoire de la Musique”. Contesting and questioning, last Friday in Marseilles Espace Julien, they gave free rein to their emotions from anger to tenderness and fired their public, among whom someof the foreigners who study French in France in the South.

Fashionable ladies learn French in the south of France

French language school at fashion exhibition

Quite fascinating exhibition at Forum du Casino in Hyeres les Palmiers. Entitled “the evolution of fashion from 1900 to 1930”, it presented the changes in clothing of course, but also, more underlying, the deep upheavals in ways of living and of thinking that marked that period. The visit was much appreciated by students at French language school on the Riviera.