À la Riviera is a remarkably affordable 5 week stay on the French Riviera. It is designed to provide a perfect balance of intellectual adventure, cultural discovery and original entertainment. If you want to learn and challenge yourself while having fun in one of the most desirable areas in the world, then À la Riviera is the program for you.

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The Joy of Learning

Its unique formula blends:

• Daily dynamic, interactive classes on the French language and culture to help you refresh or consolidate your oral skills as well as teach you everything you ever wanted to know about the mysteries of Frenchhood…
• All free afternoons
• Numerous fun events that will let you participate in the local life
• Weekly visits and exploration of the major tourist sites which make the Côte d'Azur so well-known
• Impromptu happenings organized around each summer's particular cultural flavor and group dynamics

The morning classes will give you a broad overview of the language architecture, articulations and specificity. They will allow you to practice speaking and reading French in a relaxed, congenial, and supportive environment. You will review and improve your previous knowledge as well as enrich it with colloquialisms, authentic information about lifestyles, beliefs, and current facts about the society. Each course is taught by the Director of the program, a highly experienced professor, and will make you laugh, think, speak, interact with your classmates, apply your daily discoveries, expand your cultural awareness as well as satisfy your curiosity. You will also be introduced to the current debates raised by cultural studies and think about issues such as, for instance, gender, multiculturalism, recent social and political history, European influences.

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Classes are designed to be self-contained and require only about an hour of homework per day.
Yet they are complete and thorough enough to reward you, upon satisfactory completion, with a Certificate in French Language and Culture Excellence (Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced levels).

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The afternoons are all yours to work on your accent or your tan, read books on a café's terrace, take walks in the park or hikes along the beaches, discover the narrow streets of old towns, explore the boutiques.

For fun, we will have picnics, treasure hunts, movies, fireworks, concerts, participant's creative presentations, shows etc.

And you will also visit a variety of famous sites: museums and markets, palaces and mansions, bridges and perched villages.

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