>It was great when Gary and I did this last year for the entire month of June in France. We took a month-long course with IFAlpes in Annecy ... the classes consisted mostly of college-age kids and there were a lot of Americans, but we had a sprinkling of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Swedish and Turkish students too.
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>All day while in class, the teachers didn't let us speak anything but French. One of my teachers said that this was because she didn't speak any English (but I know she did <g>). Gary picked up the language much better than I did (but then, he spoke it much better than I did too ... before we even went there). We were not in the same class, because they tested you first and put you in group levels from 1 to 10. I was in group 3 and Gary was in group 9.
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>Of course, after speaking French all day (or *trying* to in my case), after class in the evenings we reverted back to English between ourselves. Some of the kids were immersed more than we were ... being placed with a French family ... for them there would be even less opportunity to revert back to speaking their native language.
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>~~Bonnie

I really envy you that experience. Annecy is like Lake Tahoe. That would be a incredible place for that kind of language experience. Do you have a URL for the school ? Sounds like something I'd like to try someday. ( oh, never mind the URL - Google got it on the first try. Looks very cool )_