Improving French language


Your native language is not French? To get the most out of your stay and enhance your chances of succes, we encourage you to improve your French. There are various possibilities.
  1. Courses during the summer and winter holidays
  2. Courses during the academic year
  3. The informal way: among students

1. Courses during the summer and winter holidays

Université catholique de Louvain, in collaboration with CLL, Centres de langues, organises an Intensive French language programme especially designed for international students. Besides the French language courses, this programme comprises a series of activities and visits allowing students to discover Belgian and Francophone culture, thus facilitating their integration in the university environment.

All international students of UCL will be offered an advantageous inscription rate: 389 EURO (August - September 2013) for 75 hours of activities spread over three weeks. In addition, the first 50 Erasmus students who register in one of the two sessions will be granted an "early bird" rate of 100 EURO.

During the academic year 2013-2014, the programme will be organised 2 times :

- A summer session wil take place from 26th August until 13th September 2013
- A winter session will take place from 6th until 24th January 2014 (to be confirmed)

For more information: Intensive French courses for UCL international students

2. Courses during the academic year

  • The Institut des langues vivantes (ILV) is UCL language school, which provides courses in 14 modern languages, among which French as a foreign language.  The exchange student can take 3 courses of French in his programme. These courses are free of charge for exchange students (ad-hoc document to be handed in at the ILV secretary's office).  The courses are concentrated on one semester or spread over the whole academic year. 

    The French lecturers take to heart not only to teach the language, but also to initiate the incoming student to the local culture (by means of cultural visits, shows organised by the students, thematic activities, etc.). In addition, the ILV has a self-teaching centre, where students can learn languages at their own pace.
    → To enrol for a language course at the ILV
    → Contact: secretariat-ilv@uclouvain.be

3. The informal way: among students

Getting involved in a wide range of student activities, including those of the kots à projet, (student accommodation whose members organize events for charity etc.) will help you enormously to improve your French, without any great effort! In addition, the presence of about 4,000 international students could help you to learn some other languages. All of this will certainly help you in your studies.

Some of these organizations offer language learning activities such as conversation groups, exchange of knowledge, correction of texts etc.

For more information:

→ The Centre Placet is a non-profit body which organizes groups of French conversation between October and December and February to May
→ Kots à projet and student events

 

| 5/06/2013 |