Our Courses
Overview of our offer
Semi-intensive course
Are you just starting to learn French, or would you like to improve your French intensively while keeping your afternoons free?
If you are a complete beginner, your first steps in French will be accompanied by specialist teachers for complete beginners, in a friendly atmosphere to facilitate your first contact with French and your French-speaking environment.
If you want to improve your level of French, the semi-intensive course will enable you to make rapid progress in a class adapted to your level.
The morning
You deepen your skills in spoken and written French through language activities organized in didactic sequences, by attending specific workshops (from A2 level), or you choose to improve your academic writing and reading skills with the Introduction to academic texts option (from B1 level).
The afternoon
Your afternoons are free. You can take part in optional outings organized on certain afternoons to discover Lausanne and the surrounding area, and make new contacts.
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You are beginner, intermediate, or advanced in French (minimum pre-A1 level acquired according to the CEFR).
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You will have reached the age of 17 by the start of the course ; for participants under 18, please provide a letter of authorization to attend the course, signed by the legal representative.
If you complete 80% of the course, you receive an attestation of attendance showing the CEFR level and the content of the teaching, as well as the number of teaching hours.
► Study regulations for the School of French as a Foreign Language courses (french)
Intensive course
Whether you want to take your first steps in the French language or improve your French by making the most of your immersion in a French-speaking environment, an intensive course is just what you need!
That is what the intensive course is all about. It combines the semi-intensive course with Mutual Teaching in Context (EMC), which helps you the best to prepare the Certificate of Qualification in French.
This course provides a rate and 5 ECTS credits, which validity depends on study plans of each institution/faculty.
The morning
You deepen your skills in spoken and written French through language activities organized in didactic sequences, by attending specific workshops (from A2 level), or you choose to improve your academic writing and reading skills with the Introduction to academic texts option (from B1 level).
The afternoon
In EMC courses, you benefit from teaching in small-group, and from guided autonomy activities during afternoon. You can also take part in optional outings organized on certain afternoons to discover Lausanne and the surrounding area, and make new contacts.
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You are familiar enough with French, both orally and in writing, to carry out tasks in autonomy and write independent work (minimum level A1 acquired according to the CEFR).
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You will have reached the age of 17 by the start of the course ; for participants under 18, please provide a letter of authorization to attend the course, signed by the legal representative.
If 80% of the morning course has been attended, and you have obtained an average of 4.0 out of 6.0 in the EMC activities, you receive an attestation of completion showing the level and content of the course, the number of teaching hours, the average rate obtained in EMC assignments and the number of ECTS credits obtained.
If you do not achieve an average of 4.0 but have 80% attendance in the morning course, you will receive an attestation of attendance showing the CEFR level and content of the morning course, as well as the number of teaching hours.
► Study regulations for the School of French as a Foreign Language (french)
Designations on this website apply equally to men and women.
