Learn French - Seattle Language School Lessons

Learn French at Seattle Language Academy:
Seattle Language Academy (SLA) is a non-profit language school in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle with first class instructors who are dedicated to the love of languages.

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At SLA, students benefit from:
- Fremont, the Center of the Universe SLA class in action SLA Instructor Burke Gilman trail
- A wide range of classes: Day and evening classes throughout the year and Intensive and Semi-Intensive courses in the summer.
- An adult-orintated curriculum: Classes designed with working adults in mind: convenient meeting times, rigorous but realistic pace, communication-based method.
- Talented Instructors: Professional teachers with years of classroom experience and both cultural and linguistic expertise.
- One convenient location: Fremont between Leary Avenue and the Burke Gilman Trail - ease of access for those arriving by car, bus, bike, or on foot.

SLA's student body includes high school students preparing for college; college students preparing for study abroad; adults of all ages preparing to travel oversees, exploring family history and heritage, or studying for personal enrichment; and professionals motivated by the demands of the global workplace.

General French Programs; Business French Classes; Small Group French Lessons; Intensive French Classes; French Conversation Classes.

Largely derived from Latin, French is a member of the Romance family of Languages. Modern French is based on the romance vernacular, Francien, once spoken in and around Paris; it is because of the cultural and political prominence of this city that Francien, or French, emerged as the standard language of France. The Treaty of Paris (1259) was the first document to be written in it. French gained currency abroad largely thanks to the literary productivity of its non-French adepts, many of whom considered it intrinsically superior to other available forms of speech. Brunetto Latini, an Italian, rejected his Tuscan dialect and wrote his Trésor - a kind of Encyclopedia - in French; Marco Polo, a Venetian, dictated his travel memoirs in French; and in the twelfth century, after the Norman Conquest, French was adopted as the language of the English court and remained so up to the time of Chaucer. French thus acquired early on a reputation among educated circles throughout Europe as a language inherently suited to elegant discourse and belles lettres.