Author: François PFEIFFER

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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