<p>Hi Sarah,</p>
<p>Somehow I have it in my head that you were looking for schools in France, but I’ll include Italy as well.</p>
<p>In France I went to a school called IFALPES (the French love acronyms…) in Annecy. Annecy was really beautiful, which is why I chose it. The school was good and it actually works as a host school for some US study abroad programs. I had a pretty good experience there. The only thing I didn’t like was that new courses started every week, so if you’re doing a class for 2 months or 3 months, it means that every week new people can come into the class, and that can upset the rythm/progress of the school. Annecy is about an hour or two south of Geneva, Switzerland (but the school is in France).</p>
<p>In Italy I went to the Universita Italiana per Stranieri (“Italian University for Foreigners”) where I did not only Italian language classes, but also an Italian Film class and a History of Siena class. It was great! To this day I still watch movies differently because of that film class! :)</p>
<p>Re: France, I vaguely remember researching a school in France that was really affordable in Nice (I think) – though Nice has a reputation for not being so cheap. K, just looked – Cannes, not Nice. A 1-month course there is now like 695 euros – around 900 bucks because of the exchange rate. School is “College Internationale de Cannes”.</p>
<p>One more word of advice – Do Not go to a French univesity to learn French unless the program is an intensive course for foreigner, i.e., 15 - 20 hours/wk minimum. I made the mistake of doing that at the University of Montpellier once and I only had like 3 or 4 hours of class a week. It was terrible.</p>
<p>PS. The cheapest of all the programs was the one in Germany – for some reasons there seem to be a lot more German programs and less expensive, too.</p>
<p>Hope this helps! Sorry I didn’t respond earlier!</p>
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