Our French courses

Looking for a French course? Linguaphone offers two distinct pathways depending on your profile. French as a Foreign Language (FLE) is for non-French speakers who want to learn, progress or prepare for an administrative process (naturalisation, residence permit, immigration to Canada, university application). French as a Native Language (FLM) is for native French speakers who want to strengthen their spelling, grammar, professional writing or public speaking. Every pathway starts with a free placement test, is built one-to-one with a native or bilingual trainer, and can be delivered by video, phone or in person at our centres in Paris Bourse, Mulhouse or Dijon.

On the ground, professional French doesn't look the same from one profile to the next. A foreign executive recently posted to France isn't trying to learn more words; they need to run a meeting in French with their local team, to grasp the implicit signals of informal exchanges and to draft their first reports in the company's working language. An international student or recent graduate applying to a French business or engineering school works on academic writing, interview speaking and the vocabulary of their target sector. A spouse of an expatriate posted in France for a few years builds everyday French, from administrative exchanges to social relationships, sometimes including a certification (TEF IRN, DELF) to secure a residence permit or prepare for naturalisation. An employee in a subsidiary of a French group in the Maghreb or West Africa, where French is a working language but not always a native language, sharpens written precision, fluency in meetings with headquarters and command of communication registers depending on the counterpart. A professional in tourism, hospitality or luxury serving French-speaking clients (France, Belgium, Switzerland, French-speaking Canada, sub-Saharan Africa) works on warmth of welcome and command of commercial register. An HR team supporting an employee through their integration in France works on intercultural nuance, the codes of French companies and the reading of administrative French. All of these profiles sit inside our pathways, because every programme is calibrated on the learner's real working life, never on a generic textbook. It is also why our dominant format with mid-cap groups and large accounts that integrate foreign employees long-term is in-company training: a week-after-week demand for relevance on the ground.