Alliance Française de Gainesville, Gainesville

What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?
The Centre éducatif is an entity of the Alliance Française world renowned international network providing classes and language programs. Our teaching method is CEF-based (The Common European Framework) and focuses on developing communication skills through total immersion in French.

Do you provide any materials? What should your students expect to bring?
We provide a course packet to enable the student to follow along and practice. We will also use authentic material to accent the immersion experience.

What was the inspiration to start or run this business?
The Alliance Française was created to encourage the propagation of the French language & culture, and to foster friendly relations between France & the rest of the world. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization with the largest network of French language and cultural centers in the world.

What do you love most about your job?
People live their lives, and it's almost like walking down a hallway, where there's one door at the very end and that's the course of their life. They speak one language. Adding a foreign language opens other doors that each lead to a whole new world. We enjoy creating those doors for our students.