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Learn French with Europe's No. 1 Training Organisation
Business French Language Training Courses | ||||
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| Availability Worldwide |
Level Beginner to Advanced |
Programme Personalised to your level and role |
Format Choose from Intensive, Ongoing or In-country |
Location In-company or at a Communicaid Training Centre |
Learn French with Communicaid, Europe's leading provider of Business French training courses.
With more than 20 years' experience of working with private and public sector organisations across all industries and sectors, we are ideally placed to help you achieve the level of business or social French you require.
Available worldwide, choose from weekly sessions at your offices, an intensive training programme at a Communicaid centre or a French immersion at our Paris training centre.
Enquire about booking a Business French course now
My Communicaid trainer was wonderful and gave me the confidence I needed to get my rusty French started again before moving to Paris for the BBC. She was endlessly patient with me and even managed to make the experience fun! 
Caroline Wyatt, Paris Correspondent, BBC (France)
Benefits of our French Language Courses
A Communicaid French Language Training course will provide you with the ability to:
- Interact more confidently when visiting French-speaking countries or dealing with French-speaking nationals
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with French-speaking colleagues and clients through a show of interest in the French language and culture
- Demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and organisational level
Who should attend? 
A Communicaid French language training course is suitable for:
- Anyone planning to relocate to France and wishing to attend our French courses in order to prepare in advance for their assignment
- Business professionals conducting business regularly with French speakers who wish to build rapport and strengthen relationships by attending a French course
- Government and non-governmental agency representatives working in a French-speaking region who need to be able to communicate at all levels.
If you have any questions or queries regarding our French language courses at Communicaid then don't hesitate to contact us and one of our members of staff will be happy to help you.
Course content
The content and format of your French training lesson / course will depend on your profession, proficiency in French and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our French courses include:
- Spoken fluency
- Listening skills
- Pronunciation and accent
- Reading skills
- Telephone French
- Email French
- Sector-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills
If you have any questions or queries regarding our French language courses at Communicaid then don't hesitate to contact us and one of our members of staff will be happy to help you.
Approach
French training is available seven days a week, 365 days a year for those wanting to learn French. Our French classes take place between 08:00 and 20:00 although training is also available outside of these hours upon request.
Suitable tailored and published materials will be used throughout your French course, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and throughout the duration of your course.
We offer a variety of training formats for our French courses ? from intensive, weeklong courses to extensive, modular French lessons. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Your French course trainer
All Communicaid French language course trainers are native speakers with at least 3 years' professional French training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our French trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your French course trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of our French training team who will take your French class.
PC
PC currently manages Communicaid's team of trainers that teach our French language courses in London and is also responsible for running trainer development workshops. She delivers French courses at a number of corporate clients and central government departments, including DfES, DEFRA, DTI and DFID and has been teaching French to the current Secretary of State for Education for several years.
Before joining Communicaid in 2004, PC managed the business language training centre for a leading British corporate organisation. She was responsible for recruitment and management of a diverse team of language trainers and general administration of all the language courses on site. In addition to her managerial background PC has extensive experience in planning and delivering French courses to adult learners in multinational organisations.
Français - Facts about the French language
The official language of 29 countries, French is spoken by approximately 125 million people as a first language and 165 million as a second language. The Francophone world is spread across Europe, Africa, and the Americas as well as in and around the Pacific, with Europe and Africa offering the largest concentration of countries where French is recognised as an official language.
Belonging to the Romance family of languages, French shares close lexical similarities to Romance language relations such as Italian and Spanish. In addition, largely due to its colonial past, the French language is related to over 20 regional dialects and can be directly linked to the formation of a number of Creole languages.
The French alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. It uses the standard 26 letters.
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