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Successful integration through language learning

Are you planning a move to France in order to settle or work there? Have you been sent by your employer on a multi-month mission? Once there you will need to adapt to local culture, customs and politics. If you wish to fit in rapidly, having a good command of the local language is key.

Published: 8 November 2012 11:56 CET
Successful integration through language learning

Moving to a new country implies changes and it is quite normal to wonder whether you will be able to integrate successfully.

Even though many people in France speak English, most of them interact in French with one another. Speaking the language means you will be able to make yourself understood and have interesting conversations with your colleagues and acquaintances.

The best way to gain a solid command of a language is to immerse yourself in the country by taking classes at one of our partner schools.

Voted Europe’s best agency in 2010 and 2011, ESL – Language studies abroad specialises in arranging language study trips abroad. ESL provides courses in more than 20 languages in 200 destinations on all five continents.

In order to ease your integration, we offer French courses at all levels throughout the country. If you need to develop specific language skills for your work, we also provide language courses adapted to your professional needs. Whatever the type of course you are looking for, we will find a solution to meet your objectives.

Finally, if you wish to perfect your children’s education, take advantage of our summer camps in Paris and Valbonne s/Cannes. Combining French classes with sports and cultural activities, they provide the ideal setting for learning a foreign language.

Find out more about the language programs offers by ESL – Séjours linguistiques online and do not hesitate to contact us for further information. We will be happy to answer your questions in English.

ESL – Language Studies Abroad (Head Office)
Grand-Rue 50 
Case postale 1204
1820 Montreux 1
SWITZERLAND
Tel: +41 (0) 21 962 8880
Email : [email protected]

ESL Schools Lyon
6, quai Jules Courmont
69002 Lyon
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 4 72 41 98 06 
Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION

Sweden’s Social Democrats call for ban on new free schools

Sweden's opposition Social Democrats have called for a total ban on the establishment of new profit-making free schools, in a sign the party may be toughening its policies on profit-making in the welfare sector.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:09 CEST
Sweden's Social Democrats call for ban on new free schools

“We want the state to slam on the emergency brakes and bring in a ban on establishing [new schools],” the party’s leader, Magdalena Andersson, said at a press conference.

“We think the Swedish people should be making the decisions on the Swedish school system, and not big school corporations whose main driver is making a profit.” 

Almost a fifth of pupils in Sweden attend one of the country’s 3,900 primary and secondary “free schools”, first introduced in the country in the early 1990s. 

Even though three quarters of the schools are run by private companies on a for-profit basis, they are 100 percent state funded, with schools given money for each pupil. 

This system has come in for criticism in recent years, with profit-making schools blamed for increasing segregation, contributing to declining educational standards and for grade inflation. 

In the run-up to the 2022 election, Andersson called for a ban on the companies being able to distribute profits to their owners in the form of dividends, calling for all profits to be reinvested in the school system.  

READ ALSO: Sweden’s pioneering for-profit ‘free schools’ under fire 

Andersson said that the new ban on establishing free schools could be achieved by extending a law banning the establishment of religious free schools, brought in while they were in power, to cover all free schools. 

“It’s possible to use that legislation as a base and so develop this new law quite rapidly,” Andersson said, adding that this law would be the first step along the way to a total ban on profit-making schools in Sweden. 

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