Intensive Courses

Our Intensive French Courses will give a big boost to your French with 10 or 15 hours of tuition a week.

Key Facts

Give your French a big boost in a short time

Small groups of 4 to 8 students

Friendly & supportive atmosphere

 Focus on relevant real-life communication

Same-level students

Eligible for Funding

Overview

Practice makes perfect so imagine what using your French everyday for a week could do!

The Avancée Intensive Courses are designed to help students engage with the language each day for five days, thereby helping the memory. The other half of the day, you’re free to go and practise outside of the classroom and have fun in our beautiful Vallée du Giffre.

Intensive courses work just as well for holiday makers who want to add a cultural aspect to their holiday in France, as for local residents who like to assign a particular time in the year to focus on improving their skills.

The contents vary each week and Avancée Teachers break the week down by mixing speaking tasks with listening, reading, cultural insights and writing – when requested. Time flies in our classrooms!

How Does it Work?
  • Courses are available Winter & Summer
    Morning classes in the summer, late afternoon in the Winter.
  • Lessons planned around your needs
    On Monday, lessons typically focus on getting to know each other and fixing a common objective for the week.
  • Varied lesson topics
    We work to make learning fun, that means using a wide range of subjects to study and discuss. Contents are constantly updated.
  • Small same level groups
    Each Avancée student completes a language assessment prior to the course. We ensure our students are placed in the right group so that the pace is right.
  • Avancée Intensive Courses and Training Budgets
    You may be able to finance your course via a government training scheme if you work for a French company, or run your own French registered business, including micro/auto-entrepeneurs. Find out about training budgets here.
Prices
  • Winter 10 hour group course – 210€ pp
  • Summer 15 hour group course: 310€
Schedule
  • Winter: 3.45pm to 6pm
  • Summer: 9.15am to 12.30pm
  • 15min break included
  • Spring & Autumn: courses are available on demand
Why choose Avancée Formation?

Avancée Formation is an established language school in the Vallée du Giffre. We believe in making learning languages approachable and enjoyable. Our team is qualified, experienced, and passionate, and we love meeting people from different cultures and backgrounds.

Everyone at Avancée Formation has learned another language, so we understand the challenges our students face and our school’s mission is to help them overcome those challenges.

Our school is modern, bright, and centrally located for the whole Giffre Valley, we have an honesty bar for coffee and tea and car parking is available.

Reviews

Ros EylesRos Eyles
13:04 24 Jun 24
Really enjoyable, fun conversation classes with both Elise and Chloé - so much new vocab and lots of laughs! They both gave varied, relevant and interesting lessons at exactly the right standard and their encouragement has given me huge confidence to just speak French wherever I go….. have had some interesting conversations whilst dog walking around Samoens this week!! Thank you both - highly recommended. Very flexible booking system.
Marie DeffayetMarie Deffayet
12:02 07 Jun 24
6 months of individual training with a 1.5 hour course per week.Very good training center, adapts perfectly to our needs. The course materials are diverse and varied, some exercises to do at home. The classrooms are spacious and very pleasant.My teacher (Jennifer) quickly made me feel comfortable discussing in English, she gives me confidence, we feel “almost bilingual” from the first session!I recommend 100%. Don't hesitate to contact them!
Véronique DidierVéronique Didier
04:48 14 May 24
I recommend without hesitation. I didn't think I would enjoy learning English so muchThank you Bonnie and Jennifer
MyriamMyriam
09:12 13 May 24
Laurie HemeryLaurie Hemery
05:45 08 May 24
My children have been taking distance learning English lessons with this school for over two years. We are really delighted with the service and the quality of the courses and the teachers who know how to adapt to their audience. My teenage children are also delighted and that’s saying something!
Na BaumgartenNa Baumgarten
16:04 09 Feb 24
Great coworking, quiet and with a very good wifi connection!
James BentleyJames Bentley
10:30 07 Feb 24
Just finished six weeks of French lessons for myself and my three kids with Avancee Formation and could not be more pleased with the professionalism, quality of instruction, and kindness of our instructor, Chloe. Avancee Formation tailored the curriculum to our specific needs, and it shows in the enthusiasm my teenagers now have for French language and culture. As a result, we have decided to return to the area in March for four more weeks of lessons!
Margot SimondMargot Simond
08:31 28 Oct 23
Very useful training with friendly and attentive people. Very good experience!
Julian ArcherJulian Archer
06:19 26 Sep 23
Very helpful all the way from applying for course funding to exam preparation. Professional & personable.
Robert StevensRobert Stevens
14:32 31 Jul 23
Great experience. Great teacher. I really enjoyed the experience and will be back!
kathryn tysonkathryn tyson
08:18 24 Jul 23
A really fun and informative course, with the lovely Elise, well-judged for our standard, and with very many stimulating exercises to make us think and chat in French. Highly recommended.
T TapperT Tapper
17:04 26 Jun 23
I had online lessons with Elise and she was fantastic. The whole experience was supportive, lively and I learnt a huge amount in only 6 short lessons. Highly recommend.
Jean-Claude BELBARBEJean-Claude BELBARBE
16:34 28 Apr 23
I am very satisfied with this training meeting perfectly to my request.Bonnie was able to understand and document herself to make the training concrete on my theme.
Mickael MARQUAILLEMickael MARQUAILLE
17:36 03 Feb 23
Many thanks to the team of Alpine French School of Samoëns for their professionalism. Good understanding of the need and courses adapted accordingly. And especially top teachers, Thank you Bonnie 🙂
Julie DanielJulie Daniel
09:22 22 Aug 22
Yet another year of French lessons through Alpine French School which teaching me new things all the time. The lessons are very well thought out and the teachers are very supportive helping you through any difficulties you encounter whilst also pushing you to keep on improving. I would highly recommend using the Alpine French School if you want to learn French from complete beginners getting to know their first words or phrases to the more advanced that just want to sound more authentic, they offer it all. Hopefully see you again for a group session at the end of the year or back again for my 1:1 lessons next year. Keep up the good work.
Ben NicholsonBen Nicholson
08:57 19 Aug 22
Highly recommended! I've benefited from both the private lessons (excellent for making good progress, tailored to specific needs) and group classes (which have been small class sizes, relaxed and fun atmosphere). Both of my teachers (Jenny and Chloe) have been fantastic - encouraging, engaged and constructive.In addition, the school has done the majority of the paperwork to enable the classes to be fully funded through a URSSAF training grant - amazing!
Veryan YoungVeryan Young
13:59 15 Aug 22
I took a long term course at the school which was covered by my Autoentrepeneur URSSAF training grant - you pay upfront and on course completion your fees get refunded. The school helped me set this up with URSSAF and also helped me sort the refund at the end. It was a fairly simple process and they are well versed with it.Onto the lessons themselves - I was lucky to have a good teacher and engaged class so I felt I progressed really well. The teacher encouraged interaction and so it felt more like a discussion than too much "chalk and talk". I also did some 1:1s which put me a little out of my comfort zone but allowed me to work on elements I specifically needed. I am now confident that I am working towards the level needed to work in French which was the aim of the sessions. Thank you Alpine French School for your lessons!
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