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French and Cookery

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If you’re looking to improve your French and explore the wonderful world of French food and culinary culture, the French & Cookery courses in Montpellier and Rouen offer the perfect solution. Both are beautiful French locations – allowing you to create, taste and consume some wonderful food and develop your French skills at the same time!

French & Cookery in Montpellier

Dates offered
All year round
  • Open to 16 yrs + age group
  • 1-4 weeks language course
  • Open to all levels (inc beginners)
  • 20 French group lessons (as Standard Course)
  • Max. 10 people per French class
  • plus 2 afternoon workshops/week

Students follow the morning Standard Programme and in the afternoon enjoy two cookery workshops with a professional chef (and can join the regular French course activities offered by the language school). Tasting, producing and learning about French cuisine in a relaxed small group atmosphere is great fun, a super way to absorb more French and the perfect way to practise your French!

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Montpellier: Sampling local food specialities

In the cookery school, a short walk from the French school in Montpellier, a gourmet chef will supervise the cookery workshop. He will explain in full, the French cookery specific vocabulary, the food and ingredients needed to prepare the recipe and the different cookery utensils used. He also offers his help and shares a few trade tips. This is a great way to practise your French outside the classroom during your French language course experience, in Montpellier.

Of course, the cookery classes are given in the French language which helps students to reinvest the language skills acquired at the French language school, to practice the language and improve it even further through full immersion.

French & Cookery in Rouen

2025 Dates
10 Feb, 12 May, 11 Aug 10 Nov
  • Open to 16 yrs+ age group on set start dates
  • 1 week language course duration
  • 15 French group lessons per week
  • Max. 10 people per group class
  • plus PM cookery workshop sessions on Tuesday to Thursday
  • NB: No beginners accepted on these programmes
  • Min. 4 participants required for the full programme format
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Rouen: Cookery class Learn how the French make their delicious macarons, eclairs and choux pastry, fraisier (strawberry gateau) and the speciality of the region, Normandy apple tart 15 lessons of French each weekday morning, combined with 3 afternoons of French cooking lessons Timetable: French lessons from 09.30 to 13.00 hrs, an orientation course on Monday PM and cookery classes Tuesday to Thursday from 14.30 to 17.30 hrs Improve your overall French abilty, immerse yourself in the language and broaden your knowledge. Classes are based on communicative French and structural progression through the language levels, from beginner to proficiency.