Welcome to the medieval town of Gourdon, in the Quercy region of

South West France

 

Recently declared Un des Plus Beaux Détours de France, Gourdon is an historic hilltop market town, commanding fantastic views over the Dordogne and the Lot countryside.

Tucked away in the winding medieval streets of this ancient town, we offer one-week residential French courses to keen learners wishing to make a leap in their command of the language by immersing themselves in French life.

A residential French course is a great way of consolidating previous language courses and making maximum progress in a short time. Our intensive course is designed to focus on the language tools needed to build real two-way conversation. We also work on your French pronounciation so that you speak French with more confidence. By the end of the week you should be able to think more easily in French and speak French with a greater ease and enjoyment. Whether you are looking to move to France, live in France already, want to increase your enjoyment of French holidays or need to polish up for work purposes, there are real benefits to choosing this kind of intensive French course.

Immersion holiday courses are also a great way of meeting other people with a common interest. Our French courses are designed with fun in mind and we'll make sure that you get plenty of opportunity to enjoy the local cuisine in a convivial atmosphere, along with a programme of excursions to some of the Lot and Dordogne regions' best-known sites (as well as one or two that you might otherwise miss out on!). Gourdon itself is a great little typical French town in a simply stunning area of rural France, with shops, restaurants, a cinema and several estate agents if you are also here to house hunt.

We offer 3 different types of French course to help you find one that suits you best. You  can choose to enroll for our Full French Course, aimed at intermediate and advanced students in which we cover grammar points in conjunction with French conversation skills and excursions, or our Beginners' Course which is a gentler timetable of French tuition aimed at those with very basic or very rusty French. We also offer a Free Time course which takes into account that some of you already live locally and will have opportunities outside of the course to hear and speak French, or that you are perhaps on holiday with family or friends not attending the French course and so would appreciate free afternoons to do other things. Unlike other French courses it is also possible for you to attend one of our French courses while your partner attends another - we all get back together at mealtimes and the whole group takes the excursions.

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