On course for fluency

Taking a total immersion language course is a great way to improve your French, as well as being a fantastic holiday, as DEBORAH CURTIS finds out

When learning French there comes a point when listening and repeating phrases, watching French TV or films and reading French books or magazines is no longer enough. A language is a living thing – fluid, ever-changing – and the only way to really discover how your studies are progressing is to practise it – a lot – preferably with real live experts... the French; ideally in France. For the Anglophone trying to get to grips with la langue française, there can be no better way to push your learning on a leap than by taking the plunge into a total immersion language course; to speak, hear, read and write nothing but French for the duration of your stay.

Not for the terminally shy perhaps but [...]

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