Study French in Paris with Us!

Why should you study French in Paris with us? We are a small-sized, warm and professional French language school with a reputation for excellence. We opened in 1997 and since then we have acquired a family of teachers who provide learners with unrivaled, personal tuition.

Many of our students extend their courses at our French language school in Paris. Many learners also come back years later or pop in whenever they visit the city. We think this is due to the fact that our school is a unique place. It’s a place where the students and the caring, friendly and professional school staff share valuable experiences of learning the French language in immersion.

• Very small class setting of 2-7 students: In order to allow a teacher to give “personalized” attention and instruction to each student, a small group setting is indispensable. It represents the foundation of our commitment in QUALITY teaching.
• Learning French in immersion: To have a truly immersing experience in French, students need to interact actively with teacher and other students. This is done through various class activities, such as role play and guided conversations. Our small class setting allows this to happen. Students can thus develop their communication skills naturally in French.
• Constant monitoring of student’s progress: Each student is unique and has a different speed of progress. At LUTECE LANGUE, student’s French level is monitored on daily basis and class placement is revised every week. For example, we change the class level if necessary for a student who shows a rapid progress.
• Central location: The school’s location is based in central Paris, just a short walk from major tourist sites such as the Marais, Louvre, Notre Dame and Ile St Louis. This way, you can study French in Paris during enjoying the beauty of the city every day.

We strive to achieve excellence. For that reason, we provide our students who come to study French in Paris with the most efficient approach to acquire a real communication skills in French. Our school’s teaching methods for learning French in immersion are outlined in full below.

• Direct teaching method (teaching French in French, without translation):
  Although translation helps students and teachers in classroom, it can hold back the development of student’s ability of oral comprehension and production in middle and long term.
• Privileging oral practice:
  We believe that grammar and vocabulary are “tools” for communication and collecting these tools shouldn’t be the only goal in language learning. In our school, we focus on developing students’ skills to correctly and efficiently utilize “tools” in the acts of communication. This is the reason why we emphasize speaking practice in class.
• SPIRAL approach rather than LINER approach:
  Traditionally, teaching grammar notions has been considered as the “main” part of a language program. Many schools often have a fixed course curriculum (LINER approach). However, we have adopted the SPIRAL approach because our goal is to let our students acquire the theory of French grammar as well as real, practical communication skills. Knowing a theory is one thing, knowing “how to use it” in the acts of communication is another. As we all know, it is easy to have a “knowledge” but difficult to put it into an “action”. We believe that students can develop efficiently their communication skills by moving forward step by step, regularly going back to the notions already learnt and practicing them in conversation. This is the core of learning French in immersion.