Learn French in South-east France - Intensive courses & activities
 Open up your life, your travel plans and your
career with the command of the French language.
Altiplano Training offers two excellent
locations in the south east of France, in
world-famous Chamonix (all year round) and rural
Mens (June-October). We provide the stimulating,
friendly and professional environment which
allows you to develop your linguistic ability.
Both of our locations offer a wide range of
outdoor activities and sports to compliment your
classes.
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Courses: We specialize in one-to-one French courses that
focus on French social and business cultures as
well as key language skills. These are extremely
high-quality courses, with excellent, highly
qualified, highly experienced and patient
teachers.
- One-to-one intensive French courses in
Chamonix:
Our French language courses are high-quality,
intensive, custom-made courses. A typical
program is a 5-day course. You study 3hrs a day;
your afternoons (or mornings) are free for you
to ski, snowboard, walk, play golf or tennis, or
relax. The evenings are for you to test your new
language skills and confidence in the many
different restaurants and bars in bustling
Chamonix. These intensive French courses are
available all year round. "French & Ski", in
Chamonix is our most popular course.
 - Highly intensive French business courses
in Chamonix which focus on language for
communication and on key aspects of French
social and business cultures. These one-to-one
courses are very demanding and very effective,
custom-made for the client, with 5 days a week
of structured language use.
Activities of your choice with a French
professional instructor take up the afternoons,
giving a total of 45 hours of 1:1 intensive
French language use. These afternoon activities
are an essential part of your course. Afternoon
activity options (depending on the time of year
and weather) include: golf, off-piste skiing,
ice-climbing, wine-tasting, paragliding, walking
or snowshoeing, tennis or cross-country skiing,
and mountain-biking.
 - French courses with homestay (or farm
or hotel) in Mens:
We have a range of local families who are
delighted to welcome you. They include the local
blacksmith, the potter, a retired businessman,
and a nurse (and her physiotherapist husband).
You study one-to-one 3hrs a day and your
afternoons (or mornings) are free for you, with
a wide variety of craft courses and sports
available to complement your French course.
Courses in pottery, felt-making, watercolour
painting, painting furniture, organic cookery,
medicinal plants and “green” construction
techniques are all possible: all in French!
Popular sports and activities include walking,
mountain biking, windsurfing & kite surfing,
horse riding and paragliding. Courses in these
sports are also available.
 Chamonix is a lively, cosmopolitan town
situated at the foot of Mont-Blanc in the French
Alps, on the
borders of Switzerland and Italy in
south-east France. It is just 1hr
from Geneva International airport (code: GVA),
with direct flights from all European capitals
and many UK and European cities. There are
regular, fast, taxi transfers direct to your
hotel.
Known for its spectacular skiing and hiking,
Chamonix also hosts an excellent golf course as
well as numerous bars cafes and restaurants.
Activities available in Chamonix include: Golf,
Skiing, Snowboarding, Mountain-biking, Hiking, River-rafting,
Wine-tasting, Cultural-visits, Paragliding,
Climbing, Abseiling, Tennis.
Accommodation in Chamonix: Two hotels - one
hotel is located in in the centre of Chamonix,
and the other in Les Praz ski resort, Chamonix.
Options include B&B accommodation and Half-board
accommodation (breakfast + evening meal). Both
hotels have wi-fi access.
Mens is the market town for the Trieves;
a wonderful plateau of rolling farmland and
forests surrounded by the mountains of the
Vercors and the Ecrins in
south-east France. This is real France
where you are unlikely to hear English spoken,
40min south of Grenoble and 2 hrs south of
Lyon. Here you stay with a local family, discuss
life & politics and farming and 'Europe', and
enjoy the atmosphere and live music in the
cafés.
The Trieves Plateau is home to France's most
important "green" centre - Terre Vivante - and
the ethos of organic farming and green building
permeate the region. Group language lessons are
timed to include the "foire Bio"; the annual
"green" fair of the Trieves which takes place at
the end of September every year.
Lyon St Exupéry is the nearest international
airport. Grenoble has daily flights from London.
Flights are sometimes seasonal – Chambery (2 hrs
away) for example has many winter flights, but
few outside the ski season.
Accommodation in Mens: Homestay with a local
family. Students can also
stay on a working farm, and enjoy the local
food, fresh from the farmers' own garden and
their own Trieves wine, from their vineyards. If you
prefer hotel accommodation, we can offer a
very convenient and friendly 3 star hotel. |
