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Learn French in Nice, France.
 
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The school was established in 1977 by Paul Ceccaldi, the Executive Director. He is responsible for all aspects of the program, and is on hand to assist and advise students. The school building is located in the heart of Nice, near the Hotel Negresco. The beach and the famous Promenade des Anglais are only a two minute walk away.

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 45 minutes
• Minimum age: 18
• Schedule: ( 8:45 AM - 15:45 PM ) flexible depending on the program chosen
• Maximum 10 students per class,
• All levels available.
• Teaching material 
• Guided visit of the old town.
• WIFI connection 
• PC with free internet access
   
• 25 or 30 lessons per week: Could be a mixture of 20 lessons group tuition in the morning and 5 or 10 private lessons (1 to 1) in the afternoon.
   
• D.E.L.F: Diplôme d'Etudes en Langue Française.
  3 weeks, 4 lessons per week. To be taken with a 20, 25 or 30 lessons per week program.  At this time, the D.E.L.F. is the only diploma of French as a foreign language which is officially recognized by the French Ministry of Education. It has been accepted by more than 50 countries and is widely recognized by administrations and firms.
  The D.E.L.F. comprises 6 units approving an advanced level of competence, oral and written, in the language: general expression, expression of feelings, French culture and civilization. YOU WILL PASS THE EXAM AT THE END OF YOUR COURSE
. EXAM FEES:
      1 DIPLOMA: 100€
      2 DIPLOMAS: 160€
 
• Private tuition: minimum 4 lessons per day, maximum 8.
   
• Test and certificate of attendance
   
• Many social activities will be organized and some will be at very low costs.
  
  

Each Monday from January 7th to December 12., 2008

D.E.L.F. 3 weeks courses will start at the following dates. Exams at the end of the course.

Closing Dates.

Options Available

• Airport or train station transfer (for those choosing family accommodation):
      in/out: 30€.
   
• Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31, 2008. These prices never include the Air Fare.

Matisse Museum


Old city

Bay of Nice

Costs

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Family , shared Villa apartment or residence accommodation.
Hotel upon request only.

It's our duty to find for you a suitable and appropriate family or residence.

• Arrival Sunday, 
• departure Saturday.
  
                                   Placement fee (once): 100€
   
• Living with a French family is the first step towards becoming better acquainted with the country, its people and its language. As the school cooperates with 100 carefully selected families, you have the possibility of expressing your personal preferences. All homes are carefully inspected and only those where the students will be made comfortable and welcome are accepted. We provides comfortable homes in safe, middle to upper class neighbourhoods that are located 5 to 20 minutes either walking distance or by bus from the institute. Available are single and double rooms with breakfast, half or full board. On the first day, the host family will show the students how to get to the school..
   

  Room            Board	Per day
  Single           ----------Double          ----------	18 € 16 €
  Single           breakfast Double          breakfast	21 € 19 €
  Single           half board Double          half board	26 € 24 €
  Single           full board Double          full board	30 € 28 €

   

  Villa with garden and terraces, located in the city of Nice at 30 minutes walking distance from the school (10 minutes by bus). 7 twin rooms (2 beds) approx. 20 m² each and 1 single room approx. 12 m². 8 bathrooms with shower and WC. Each room with wardrobe, table, private bathroom with shower and WC. Spacious common room with a fully equipped kitchen, open plan dining/living room with TV. WI-FI internet access. Washing machine and iron. Students must bring their own towels. The bedclothes are provided. Each student is responsible for the cleaning of his room and private bathroom/WC as well as the common kitchen/dining room. Cleaning of the other shared areas by the staff of the house once a week.

                                                                    * rate per person

• Residence for Students & Adults
  The Residence is located near the school and the beach. Each flat is fully-furnished and equipped : kitchenette with hotplate and cooker hood, fridge, crockery, bathroom (shower, washbasin, WC). WI-FI internet access. Washing machine room. Bedsheets and towels are supplied and changed every week. Local tax included. Cleaning on request at extra cost. Arrival on Sunday from 6:00 p.m. till 10:00 p.m. - Departure on Saturday from 9:00 a.m. till 12:00 a.m. - Caution money required on arrival : 150 €. Payment of the full amount on arrival by credit card, traveller cheque, cheque drawn on a French bank, cash.
  
                                                         PRICE PER APARTMENT

  1 to 3 weeks

  Low season	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 235 €  per week
  Low season	Apartment 1 room, 2 persons: 242 €  per week
  May 11 to September 27, 2008	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 270 €  per week
  May 11 to September 27, 2008	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 319 €  per week

   4 weeks and more
   

  Low season	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 199 €  per week
  Low season	Apartment 1 room, 2 persons: 209 €  per week
  May 11 to September 27, 2008	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 235 €  per week
  May 11 to September 27, 2008	Apartment 1 room, 1 person: 284 €  per week

                                                               Residence   
       

                 

  Shared villa apartments

     

  

  Bikes available

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

School is not the only place to learn French! If you like to go to the theatre or to concerts, if you are a folklore fan or jazz fan, prefer watching international sports events or like to go to top discotheques or hear live music in pubs, if you like to dine well and sometimes go to the casino, be active in sports yourself or just want to bathe and stroll-Nice offers almost infinite possibilities in leisure time activities.

Nice is the ideal starting point for excursions into the region. We organize full and half day excursions. The students are taken by bus to visit the Principality of Monaco, Grasse, Cannes, St.-Paul-de-Vence,  St.-Tropez, Port-Grimaud, etc. Social activities are arranged and they offer the opportunity to make friends with others from the school, to get to know the teachers outside the classroom and to learn about recreational and cultural facilities available in Nice.

We make also arrangements for students to participate in group sport outings such as: gorge run (canyoning), biking, hiking, walking, diving etc. Students are able to make arrangements for sports such tennis, swimming, sailing, wind-surfing, etc.

Sightseeing tours

NICE : the OLD CITY and the CASTLE (panoramic view)

Walking tour through the small streets, near the Opera and the Hotel de Ville on the way to the famous market place. Visit to the old castle (ruin) especially for the magnificent panoramic view on the bay of Nice.

 NICE : "MATISSE MUSEUM" & "ARENES DE CIMIEZ"

The museum is located in an Italian villa (17th century) inside a beautiful parc full of olive trees. Matisse arrived in Nice in 1917 and died there in 1954. His private collection and personal furniture can be seen in the museum.

 NICE : "CHAGALL MUSEUM"

The Marc-Chagall museum is certainly the most important museum in Nice for the quality of his paintings. It displays the 17 great paintings making up the artist's Biblical Message (painted between 1954-67).

 ANTIBES : the OLD CITY and the "PICASSO MUSEUM"

Antibes can be easily reached by train. Founded by the greek, the old city was reconstructed in the 16C. Visit of the market place. Panoramic view on the city, the sea and the mountains from the old fortifications. The Grimaldi Castle where the Picasso museum is located, is inside the old city: good selection of master's work, including drawings, prints and tapestries.

 CAP-FERRAT

Trip around the Cap-Ferrat by a little road train with stops to visit the Kerylos Greek Mansion and the Ephrussi de Rothschild museum (art collection and extraordinary gardens).

 BIOT-VALLAURIS

Opportunity to bring back home "souvenirs" as glassworks and ceramics. Visit in Biot of the very well known "Verrerie d'Art" (glassmaking) and the glass museum. Vallauris is a ceramic and pottery centre made famous by Picasso.

 SAINT-PAUL-DE-VENCE: visit of St. Paul, one of the most beautiful village in France. Many boutiques for handicrafts and souvenirs. Possibility to visit the Maeght Foundation.

 PARFUMS DE GRASSE: visit of a candy factory and the River-Loup canyon. Stop in Gourdon which is a very old perched village. Visit of a perfume factory in Grasse to discover this traditional activity which has made the city famous all over the world.

 SAINT-TROPEZ: this is a trip along the coastline: the red rocks of the Esterel mountain, visit of Saint-Tropez, the famous fishing village.

 LES GORGES DU VERDON: an impressive over hanging road and fantastic panoramas along the River Verdon's Canyon (the deepest canyon in Europe): leften bank of the river - Aiguines - Moustiers, beautiful typical village famous for its earthware. Sainte-Croix lake.

 VINTIMILLE (ITALY) and the market:  the purpose of this trip to Italy is to have the opportunity to buy things (clothes, shoes, souvenirs) very cheap on the market of Ventimiglia.

 MONACO/MONTE-CARLO: visit of the old city, the cathedral and Prince's palace square. Tour in Monte-Carlo on the Casino's square.

DELF examination dates

Courses are conducted solely in French by experienced instructors. All teachers are University graduates and have post-graduate qualifications and experience in teaching French as a foreign language. Most also have other areas of expertise (literature, art, history, etc.). In addition to their academic credentials, teachers are selected for their ability to stimulate students in their studies of French.
		LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODS
		The latest direct teaching methods are applied in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere guaranteeing optimum intensity and maximum individuality. It will help the students to develop every aspect of the language skills that they will use both inside and outside the classroom. All students use materials developed by the school, including textbooks FRANÇAIS LANGUE ETRANGERE 1, 2 and 3. Materials are periodically reviewed to ensure that students have the most suitable and up-to-date books.
					A special feature of our programme is the emphasis on conversational French. Students in the intensive courses have either one or two lessons in small conversation groups. Students are grouped by age and mutual interests in addition to their knowledge of French. Being grouped by age and mutual interest means that conversations focus on topics of interest to all.
		Students develop their oral fluency, converting passive knowledge into active and confident command through a variety of exercises. Advanced students practice their French in discussions and debates.

 Town Information's

The city is a university city, cultural metropolis, and international holiday resort. Its mild climate and unique geographical location between the Maritime Alps and the Mediterranean Sea make it as attractive in winter as in summer. Nice Côte d'Azur International Airport is 7 km from the center of the town and, after Paris, is the second busiest in France.The old city is the heart of Nice. It is full of life. There are restaurants and cafes with nice terrace, pubs with live music, discotheques.

All the students, young and older, like to meet there in the evening for the nice atmosphere and the bustle in the streets.

Previously depending upon the Earldom of Provence then, since 1388, upon the House of Savoy, Nice became French, in 1860, and that was approved almost unanimously by its population. Nice is henceforth submitted to French common law ; the district code sets the frame for municipal action. So, in 1886, the town hall set up in its current building,  which has been, successively, a barracks, a seminary and a hospital. It is the headquarters of the Town Council, whose function is to run the town. 

NICE and its area are undoubtedly the place for the opening up of art and culture. The Côte d'Azur has inspired, from time immemorial, the greatest painters, writers and musicians. It has compelled recognition of its avant-garde across the Atlantic, its museums are holding prestigious collections in edifices of renowned architecture. Nice is full of an extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage. 

The gentle way of life sustains the imaginary world of artists and stimulates their creativeness. Thus Van Loo, Toulouse Lautrec, Modigliani, Dufy, Renoir, Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, or Prévert, Nietzsche, Aragon, Tolstoï, Maupassant, and musicians such as Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet have experienced a real fascination over Nice, without forgetting the numerous architects of whom the town bears the stamp. 

Nice is not a provincial town as the other ones, its is a privileged city. A cultural and aesthetic atmosphere is prevailing here; it is maintained, still today, by Nucéra, Le Clézio, Arman, Yves Klein, Ben, Martial Raysse, Malaval, Viallat, César : the city is in an ever-lasting turmoil.

All of which to say that the cultural life is intense. It is punctuated by temporary exhibitions in the museums and the municipal galleries, by the programming of the theatres of which the most important is the Theatre of Nice - National Dramatic Centre. The Opera House of Nice's Theatre proposes events of great quality. On the bill, international stars will perform in concerts, ballets, recitals, lyric works. The art of living of Nice is also a cultural environment : a film theatre, libraries, municipal record and video libraries, events aimed at the population in the area, lectures the ones of the Ecole du Louvre, for example education facilities such as the Conservatoire national de région and the art schools and college and  the Mediterranean University Centre Nice is a modern city open to all artistic movements in which the population is always included. There is no doubt whatsoever about the success of Nice through the world. But, what are the reasons for it? The mildness of the climate, which is said sub-tropical? The diversity of the landscapes, the richness of the flora, the beauty of the great Mediterranean Sea?

In fact, everything is accentuated in Nice, the light is so bright that the colors are flashing. The pines are green and are happily rubbing shoulders with the blue shades of the Mediterranean Sea and the sky, the sun is highlighting the yellow tones of the flowers, the ochre sides of the houses, in a natural setting of rocks and hills : it is indeed easy to understand the fascination exerted by the Côte d'Azur on the artists, painters, writers, sculptors, musicians, who contributed to her fame and to whom the museums of Nice are paying a deserved tribute. The tourist trade was born in Nice in the eighteenth century with the winter stays of famous aristocrats, first English, than Russian and American who gave to the region a bright and fashionable way of life. Slowly, the popular touring has been developing and after the second world war, the summer season is definitely taking over the winter one. Today, the tourist industry is the first economical activity of Nice. All kind of leisure and touring are offered : green touring, sea, sportive, luxury, alpine, congress and trade tourism. The Acropolis, the Arts, Tourism and Congress Exhibition Centre is ranking among the first congress centres of the world. The continuous improvements of the infrastructures . rail, road, airport and port allow an easy access and a direct link to most of the biggest cities in the world.

The total amount of tourist accommodation is placing Nice, second town in terms of hotel, just before Paris. If the Carnival of Nice has been for a long time the major tourist event of Nice, now, there are numerous international events which are giving a rhythm to the life of the town, such as the Nice Jazz Festival, without mentioning the sportive meetings - Nikaïa, Triathlon, Semi-Marathon. In the same time, the cultural aspects are generating an intense artistic life. Although Nice may be considered as a modern town, it has not forgotten its traditions. They are celebrated through the May, the Cougourdons, the Vineyards feasts, where the gastronomy of Nice is honoured and the "niçois", the local dialect coming from the langue d' oc, the southern French is king of the day. The heritage of Nice is constantly under care, by protecting the frescos and the trompe l'oeil which are ornamenting the façades of the houses of the Old-Nice, by maintaining the activity of the Cours Saleya, where is held every day the flower, fruit and vegetable market, and the Saint-François Square with its fish market. The beauty of Nice is also due to its green spaces, 300 hectares of garden, its trees, plane trees, linden trees, bay-trees, pine and palm trees, which are lining the avenues, the fountains of the forum Masséna or the Acropolis esplanade. Nice has been classified, for over ten years, as the first town of France for its flowering and for the beauty of its gardens. Today, Nice is shown outside the competition, for outstanding merits. The pedestrian roads which are surrounding Nice allow the discovery, from various points of view of the Baie des Anges, the Angels' Bay.

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