Learn French in France

Our French courses in France start at CAD$2,130 for a 2-week French course, including your course, accomodation, meal plan, activities and a language course certificate.

You can add another 100 euros a week to your budget for transportation, museums, souvenirs, shopping, activities with friends, etc.

You must also count the price of your flights to and from either Paris or Nice, and add any trips that you’d like to make around France or elsewhere in Europe. Our school doesn’t offer financial aid, but there are special offers and promotions on the website regularly (and free flights is one of them). You can follow EF on social media to be alerted to the opportunities.

Studying French in France gives you many customizable options, including where you’ll live for the duration of your course. You can opt to live with other students in a student residence, or choose a homestay instead.

With homestay, you’ll join your host family for breakfast and dinner, and then during the day you’ll be in classes at our French language school or out and about exploring. This is a great way to experience the French way of life and reinforce your new skills.

If you’d prefer a bit more independence as you learn French in France, you can stay in a student residence with fellow classmates from around the world.

Learning French in France is a complex undertaking. You must master the vocabulary and grammar of the language, learn pronunciation, and also pick up on usage and idioms, all of this while trying to speak quickly and with enough accuracy to be understood.

Your French tutor will work on all the skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) and lots of different aspects of the language, as appropriate for you and your classmates. The lessons are mixed every day so you won’t spend hours focusing on grammar one day and hours working on vocabulary another. Instead on a single day, you’ll have one lesson teaching subjunctive forms of verbs and another working on everyday phrases and expressions.

The students who come to study French in France are from all parts of the world. About half come from Europe because it’s close, and the other half are from Africa, Asia, the US, and Canada. This nationality mix is one of the best things about learning French. In France, you won’t be surrounded by other English speakers. The majority of French language learners in France are between age 16 and 25. If you’re an older student, you may prefer to look specifically for a French course targeted to professionals.

We have French language schools in two different cities: Paris and Nice. Each has its own flavor and culture that makes it completely unique. Paris is a big, multicultural city with tens of thousands of students studying in Paris’ hundreds of universities, high schools, and language schools. Nice is smaller, has a laidback atmosphere. Besides it's breathtaking beaches, Nice is also home to a world-class opera and a number of squares with majestic Italian-inspired architecture.