Students at Elfca French language school try scuba-diving Can one practice French language under water?

Can one practice French language under water?

Students at Elfca French language school try scuba-diving

Hyeres bay is particularly renown for the richness of its submarine fields; the Golden Islands site is beautifully preserved and Port-Cros national park is the warrant of the protection of this paradise. Many wrecks can be explored, where one may experience the emotion of an encounter with a huge – but harmless – grouper! Elfca student said he had never felt his heart beat so hard during all his French language holiday.

Fondue for foreigners on language vacations in France

Students of French language school love cheese

Swiss or Savoyarde? The delicious and so convivial winter dish is made with cheese melted in white wine, with pepper and nutmeg not forgetting the magic touch of a liquor glass of kirsh just before bringing the “caquelon”, to the table. But the Swiss say it originates from Neuchatel , while the French claim it comes from Savoie, a French region in the Alpes du Nord! No answer could be found although teacher and students had a hot discussion on that important question, at French language school on the Riviera.

French national insurance explained to those who learn French in France

Participants to French language programme amazed by French System

When they were told that going to the doctor in France cost 21euros, American students were totally amazed. But when the lecturer added that the sum but for one euro was reimbursed to the patient by the Securite Sociale, they could hardly believe it! Then the lecturer explained the cost of that social policy, particularly the wages deductions, and it was food for thought at French language school in Provence.

Spring flowers for French language school host-family

Foreigners who learn French in France buy anemones

On Saturday morning market, all customers were delighted by the big bunches of open field flowers neighbouring with broccolis, turnips or carrots on the farmers’stalls like a foretaste of a spring everyone is longing for, although no one dares complaining about the weather: on Sunday at noon, it was so warm that all restaurants terraces were full, while the rest of the western world was suffering rain, snow and blizzard, as remarked a student who was buying a bunch of purple anemones for the family he lived with as part of his French immersion programme.

Islet of Bagaud presented to foreigners who study French in France

French language school only 20klms from Port-Cros Island

The treasures of the Riviera, the “Iles d’or”, are very famous, and sometimes over-visited! But most people ignore that they each have their own satellite islets. One of them, Bagaud, whose fauna and flora are endangered by a growing population of rats and overspreading ficoid plants with flowers called “witch-fingers”, has been chosen to become an ecology lab for the next ten years, as related in a summary by student participating to French language course in the south of France.

Learners of French in France love cherry tomatoes

Gastronomy part of French immersion program

Some French people appreciate to take an apero break in the evening, and if their choice varies from pastis to orange wine or kir, it’s quite fashionable and healthy to replace the usual salted peanuts with cherry tomatoes. At moment, they can be found of different colours, red of course but also yellow, orange and dark green, which provoked the enthusiasm of the foreigners who study French on the Riviera.