Châteaux des Langues

Châteaux des langues is a French provider of residential language immersion courses for adults and teenagers, working to a method developed and tested by its own teaching team over more than forty years. For teenagers it runs intensive residential English stages for secondary-school and high-school students, plus a public-speaking course in English. The teaching principle is constant use of the language rather than lessons alone: grammar sessions alternate with games, songs and sporting activities, and English is spoken from morning to night apart from two short French breaks. The collège programme is built around twelve hours of English a day across a twelve-day stay, in groups of around eighteen, with English-speaking activity leaders responsible for keeping the group in the language. Free written level tests in English and French are offered on the operator's site, followed by a short telephone conversation with a trainer. The organisation carries the UNOSEL label.