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ACCORD French Business Course

Book your ACCORD French Business Course in Paris

There can be no denying the importance of the French language in the business world market. French is an official language at the EU, European Parliament, UN, UNESCO, NATO, and French is a key language for French-multinational companies working in Europe, Canada, Africa and many other countries.

At ACCORD, our French business course in mini group is the ideal programme to suit the specific requirements for your job, your company and your professional sector.

Before your arrival at ACCORD Paris, you will be given a test to assess your level and you will be asked which topics and subjects you need to focus on during your French Business French lessons, so that our teachers can design the lessons around your needs.

Following an ACCORD Business French course will allow you to develop your vocabulary and oral communication in French for your business as well as in a social environment (at lunch, listening to the news on the radio or TV, etc.), giving you the opportunity to be more successful in your international and French business environment.

Our French Business Course can integrate your exact needs, for example learning the French terminology to use in your business. The ACCORD Business French lessons in mini group are customised to the students’ professional needs and requirements and as there are never more than 3 students in the Business French afternoon classes, the lessons are perfectly designed to suit you and your classmates who will be of the same level of French as you.

ACCORD French Business Course training format:

– The ACCORD Paris Business French course in mini group includes the morning General French Course A of 20 hours/week (course from 9:00 to 13:00) and four afternoon lessons dedicated to Business French in a class of maximum 3 students per class.

– The Business French afternoon lessons are dedicated to the students’ needs. The Business French teachers design the afternoon course to meet the students’ exact requirements. For example, building language skills and confidence in public speaking and presentations in French, developing negotiations, debating and leadership skills, gaining a better understanding of French working culture, etc.

– Quality guarantee: the Business French lessons in mini-group with a maximum of 3 students per class are open even if you are the only person of your level in those Business French lessons. You will get the Business French lessons you booked (12 hours per week) without any additional fee to pay even if you are on your own.

– It is also possible to book the afternoon Business French lessons in mini group without the morning course A, as indicated HERE

– Our recommendation: During your stay at ACCORD you can also ask to add one to one lessons for an additional fee.

– No hidden fees! Course Fees include level testing, teaching materials and end of course certificate.

Why choose ACCORD Paris?

– Over 30 years’ experience in teaching Business French (1988-2023). Founded in 1988, ACCORD Paris is one of the leading schools in France for teaching French to foreign students and business people as well as diplomats, lawyers, teachers of French…

– High quality French language courses in Paris: ACCORD Paris is a French language school accredited by the official “Qualité FLE”, ACCORD is registered as a Private Institute of Higher Education at the Academy of Paris and is also a member of SOUFFLE and CAMPUS FRANCE. Thanks to the French school accreditations obtained by ACCORD Paris, students are safe in the knowledge that they follow a quality French course in a school which also provides quality services that match their expectations.

– You will learn to communicate confidently with French-speaking colleagues and clients.

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French course and family homestay in Paris

Are you looking for a high quality and full immersion French language stay in summer or any time of the year combining a high quality French course and a family homestay in Paris?

French course and family homestay in Paris

First of all, select a Qualité FLE accredited school.

ACCORD is an accredited FLE school with the highest marks (3 stars) in all domains (teaching, premises, administration…).

This is why ACCORD offers you the best!

Select an intensive French course at ACCORD and an accommodation in a selected host family located in Paris “intra muros” and enjoy your stay in France and in Paris! And staying with a host family in Paris with ACCORD does mean in Paris, this means you will never be going to the suburbs and have long commute journeys.

With a wide choice of high quality intensive, super-intensive or semi-intensive courses, the Parisian ACCORD French language school offers you the best opportunity to learn and improve your French in one of its language courses and in a friendly family homestay accommodation in Paris… and not in its suburbs.

With 35 years of experience in teaching French as a foreign language, ACCORD French Language School is known worldwide for the quality of its French courses in France and English courses in England. In Paris, ACCORD’s partners have a network of carefully selected and regularly inspected host families who have welcome ACCORD students for years and years. Many of them stay in touch with their host family… who becomes for them their French and Parisian family, and often students return to our school and ask to stay with the same family over and over again.

As our students say: “with ACCORD, it is not only about studying French, it is a life experience!”

Combining your French language course at ACCORD and a family homestay accommodation in Paris is probably the best way for you to practise your French in a real French living environment.

Your French course and family homestay in Paris

ACCORD French language course combined with a homestay accommodation provides you with a unique immersion experience in the French way of life and the Parisian culture and civilisation. Staying in a Parisian host family will be an invaluable part of your language-learning experience in France. During your homestay you will spend time with a real French family and experience their everyday life, learning about Parisian life and culture from the inside, as an extension of the French lessons you follow at ACCORD French Language School, the high quality French language school located in the heart of Paris.

If you wish to have a lively and successful French experience, a homestay program in Paris is the best way of doing this. And as your family is located in Paris, you will be able to explore Paris, meet with your classmates after class without worrying about checking train times, etc. as you will only have to take the bus or the metro to go home to your family. Of course, it is nice to let your family know if you are going to be late home or have dinner out, etc.

Select an ACCORD homestay program in Paris if this kind of cultural experience is what you are looking for, and if you want to “live like a Parisian” whilst studying French in Paris at ACCORD!

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Select your French language course in France

Do you plan to improve your French this year or next year? Would you like to improve your oral communication or your written French? Are you looking for a general French language course or a French course helping you to prepare the DELF exam?  Maybe you are interested in a course dedicated to Business French… or a French and Law course in mini group… With ACCORD select your French language course in France!

Select your French language course in France

Be sure that at ACCORD Paris you will find the French language course you are looking for!

The accredited ACCORD French language school offers high quality intensive French language courses in the heart of Paris.

With nearly 4.000 students from more than 40 different nationalities each year, ACCORD has a worldwide reputation for the originality of his teaching method and constant innovation in teaching French as a foreign language. Another key point at ACCORD is that the school guarantees there will be no nationality over 12% studying at the same time at the school, which allows you to practise French in real multinational classes and school environment.

ACCORD is a French language school founded in 1988 and has now 35 years’ experience in teaching French as a foreign language and so far over 130.000 students have come to ACCORD during these 35 years.

If you’re looking for an excellent French language course in France, ACCORD is for you!

Students benefit from taking their French language course at ACCORD Paris for a number of reasons. Besides the surroundings (on the famous Grands Boulevards, just a few minutes’ walk from the Louvre museum, the Opéra Garnier, the Georges Pompidou Centre and the famous Grands Magasins) ACCORD provides first-rate facilities and training  in a beautiful, typically Parisian building with 20 bright and spacious classrooms fully equipped with audio-visual equipment. Teachers are qualified French language educators, trained to help you improve your communicative skills in various ways.

Whatever your age, 18+, 30+, 50+ or just 6 or 12 years old, you still want a high quality French course?

With ACCORD Paris, select your French language course!

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Internship in France, at ACCORD Paris

Internship in France – Intern Abroad in France

Full-Time Internship Abroad

Doing an internship in France is a great way to experience the French culture and civilization, taking the necessary time to appreciate all of its charm, have fun living like a Parisian while building your CV/resume and greatly improving your French language skills.

Internship in France – Live and work in Paris!

With ACCORD you can supplement your study abroad French language course with an internship outside the classroom or a full-time internship in the French capital.

Internship in France – Invest in international work and living experience

At ACCORD you can be offered a full-time internship or a part-time internship whilst following a French language course at our school. Build your CV/resume, gain a great professional experience and improve your French language skills for just the cost of your accommodation and board in Paris as you will not have to pay for your internship abroad or your French language course! ACCORD Paris school will take care of that.

Internship in France – Build your global and practical experience in Paris

Develop your career prospects through an experience in a company dealing with more than 25 countries. As you know it, internship placements abroad build highly desirable critical skills for employment and make you more attractive to potential employers after you have graduated.

Full-Time Internship Abroad

Before you apply for an internship in France

Before contacting us for your internship program, please read the three internships offered by ACCORD and select the one you would like to apply for:

Internship in France – offer n°1
You have a very good level of French: you can ask for a full-time internship at the famous ACCORD language school, in the marketing and sales office, in the Head of Studies office or in the Exam office. You can also be offered an internship in the ACCORD Schools Group’s Marketing Department, under the supervision of the ACCORD Schools Group marketing manager.

Internship in France – offer n°2
You have a good level of French: you can ask for a part-time internship at ACCORD language school, in the marketing and sales office or in the Exam office. After a test of your level of French you will be either placed in an intensive morning course and you will do your internship in the afternoons, or you will be placed in afternoon classes and you will do your internship in the morning.

Internship in France – offer n°3
You are a false beginner or low intermediate in French: you will have to follow an intensive French course for a few weeks before starting your internship, and then you will be able to do a part-time internship as described in point 2.c

Don’t hesitate to contact us to be tested so that we can confirm you if you are eligible to apply to one of the 3 offers and find out if you need to book for an intensive French course before starting your internship at ACCORD.

Don’t hesitate and apply now for your internship in France!

This is a great opportunity for all of you out there and we look forward to welcoming many of you, bright and enthusiastic students.

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Read a book in French and improve your French

Read a book in French and improve your French

Read a book in French and improve your French: “Paroles de Johnny” (Stéphane Deschamps & Frank Margerin – Chronique Editions)

You are maybe following a French Course in France, in Paris or in another area of France?

At the end of your French course in France, you might like to bring back home with you a few books which are not course books so you can keep practising your French whilst having fun?

Read a book in French and keep practising your French!

To read a book in French, you don’t need to have a great level of French. Of course, to understand such great works as René Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (also known as « Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth ») or Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Le contrat social (also known as the « the Principles of Political Rights »), you will need an excellent level of French. But you’ll find a great number of books which are much more easy and great fun to read.

Our advice is read a book in French and continue practising your French. Take the time to choose the book you would like to read and don’t forget that even if it needs a little effort to understand, you will find the experience very enjoyable!

Don’t hesitate to go to a bookshop such as la librairie Parallèles (*) or the FNAC at Châtelet les Halles, ask the staff for advice so they can recommend you books about topics you like and that you will enjoy reading.

For example, here is a little book which is both serious and amusing and which will help you revise your vocabulary and learn new expressions which were often used by Johnny Halliday, a very famous French singer, whose death in December 2017 saw an outpouring of grief throughout the whole of France.

From the first sentences in this book, “Paroles de Johnny”, you will enjoy practising your French and discover these famous expressions which contributed to make this popular singer a legend in France.

You can read a review of this very unusual little book on the PARIS-MOVE website and do let us know what you think of this book and of all the others you will have enjoyed reading during your stay in France or once you’ve gone home.

(*) Librairie Parallèles, 47 rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris

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Listen to French songs and improve your French

Listen to French songs and improve your French

Listen to French songs and improve your French: Listen to the album “Bonsoir Shérif” by the singer, Keith Kouna.

Maybe you are currently following a French course in France? Before going home after your French language stay in France, you might want to buy a few albums so you can continue to practice your French whilst listening to songs performed in French?

Listen to French songs and continue to practice your French!

To listen to French songs, you don’t need to have a very good level of French.
Our little tip: take the time to choose a few albums by listening to some of the tracks available on the internet and we particularly recommend that you go on the artists’ websites. Of course, you will need to pay attention and try to understand what you are listening to, but we guarantee you’ll find the experience very pleasurable!

You must of course try to go to a small, local record shop in Paris such as Parallèles (*), or in a large store such as FNAC at Châtelet les Halles, ask the staff for their advice and recommendations. They will tell you that by listening to French songs, you’ll soon be singing in French!
They will, of course, recommend albums from the most famous French speaking performers, singers that most students at ACCORD School will have already been introduced to during their lessons: Serge Gainsbourg, Edith Piaf, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Claude Nougaro, Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Alain Bashung, Michel Berger, Dalida, France Gall, and so many more… but they may also recommend lesser known French singers, for example Eric Ter, François Béranger and… Keith Kuna.

This singer, whose ‘real’ name is Sylvain Côté, was born in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, near Québec in 1974, and “Bonsoir Shérif” is his fourth solo album. An album which has received a “Coup de Coeur” mark from the editors at PARIS-MOVE.

You can read the album review (in French!) on the PARIS-MOVE website and don’t hesitate to let us know what you think of this album and of all the others you will have enjoyed listening to during your stay in France or once you’ve gone home.

Another little tip: During your language stay in France, listen to French songs and continue to practice and improve your French and remember taking some French records with you to go home with!

(*) Librairie Parallèles, 47 rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris

Awards received by Keith Kuna :
Public Prize, Les Goules, GAMIQ 2016
Rock Album of the Year, Les Goules « Coma », GAMIQ 2016
Song of the Year “Batiscan”, GAMIQ 2013
Singer-Songwriter of the Year, GAMIQ 2013
Socan Prize for the Song, “Batiscan”, 2013
Roseq-Rideau, 2013
Miroir Prize for the originality of the songwriting, Festival d’Été de Québec, Les Goules, 2006

Listen to French songs and improve your French.

Read a book and improve your French

Qualité FLE Accreditation: the official Quality Accreditation

Created via a decree in 2007, the Qualité FLE Accreditation (Quality Accreditation for French as a Foreign Language) is issued by the French Ministry of Further Education, Research and Innovation, Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

The official Quality Accreditation for French as a Foreign Language

ACCORD Paris was founded in 1988 and was one of the very first French language schools in France to obtain the Qualité FLE Accreditation in 2007.

This accreditation aims to identify, evaluate and promote the centres teaching French as a foreign language which offer quality language courses and services.

Through this quality assurance process, the French State is committed to officially recognise via a quality accreditation the services provided by centres and schools teaching French. The French State is also committed to publicise information about the accreditation known as ‘Label’ in French, and to use it as a promotion tool for the French language within the student and professional mobility.

The Official Quality Accreditation

The accreditation is awarded after the French Language School has been inspected. The accreditation is based on a frame of work focusing on the five following areas:

  • Training, teaching
  • Teachers
  • Welcome, support and guidance
  • Premises, security, facilities
  • Management

On the 28th of March 2007, after verifying the inspection reports, the interministerial accreditation commission awarded fifteen schools the first official Quality Accreditation for French as a Foreign Language, and ACCORD was one of those very first schools to be accredited in France.
The decree stating the creation of this Official Accreditation was published on the 28th of December 2007 in the Official Journal of the French Republic.

In France, there are between 300 and 400 centres and schools welcoming each year over 100.000 stuydents who come from all over the world to learn French. With so many centres and schools to choose from, students and language service providers (education agents, travel agencies specialising in language stays, etc.) now have a tool which is essential to help them choose or recommend a language stay among a selection of the best centres.

In 2007, ACCORD Paris was one of the very first schools to obtain the Qualité FLE accreditation!

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