>I really envy you that experience. Annecy is like Lake Tahoe. That would be a incredible place for that kind of language experience.

Annecy is wonderful. We loved it. Ths school is right on the lake and only about a 5 minute walk to the old town.

We had also contemplated taking the class in Chamonix instead of Annecy, but they only had advanced courses in the summer and the beginner courses were in the winter. Now, Chamonix in the winter would be cool too ... great skiing ... but I haven't skied in more than 25 years. And besides, this was supposed to be a summer vacation, not winter. So we went to Annecy instead and spent one of our weekends in Chamonix to do some hiking (it's only about an hour or hour and a half drive from Annecy).

We're planning a trip to Chamonix in September for a week or so and will probably take a day trip to Annecy, because we loved it so much.

If you get the chance to take the course there, do it ... you'll love it.

~~Bonnie



>>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
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>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 )_