Alliance Francaise de Cebu, the French Language Center in Cebu, offers an entirely new approach focusing on real life communication. Whether for children from the age 4 or for adults, the philosophy will be the same: ENJOY AND LEARN MORE!

If learning a language used to be a painful experience with a classical approach: scary teacher focusing on grammar and written exercises, nowadays “Alliance Française de Cebu”, the French Cultural Institute and Language Center in Cebu, offers an entirely new approach focusing on real life communication. Whether for children starting from age 4 or for adults, the philosophy will be the same: ENJOY AND LEARN

Needless to say, French is, naturally, our only medium of instruction. This is because our goal, far from transforming the students into specialists of French grammar, is to arm them with the linguistic tools necessary for them to go through everyday life in France.

Indeed, language is not just grammar, phonology and vocabulary, but a set of communicative abilities which can only be properly learned within real communicative situations. Even children, as the latest didactic research has pointed out, do not learn their mother tongue by simple repetition and detailed grammatical exercises : they construct it anew.

This is why the belief at "Alliance Française de Cebu", the French Cultural Institute and Language Center, is that to study a language , patterns similar to those of a child's language acquisition process should be adopted. Emphasis on how to communicate in a diverse range of real-life situations is therefore of monumental importance.

With “Alliance Francaise de Cebu”, the students will have the opportunity to use a new method, called Alter Ego. This brand new book is based on the latest research in foreign language teaching processes.

From the very first lesson, the teacher speaks to the students in French and, believe it or not, the students reply in French as well! As you enter a French class at “Alliance Francaise de Cebu”, you discover yourself naturally understanding a conversation between French speakers at a cocktail party, participate in a television show, speak about your own city in details and write a note in French to a hotel to asking for information as if it had always been one of your widen talents.

As scientific studies have proven, a child taught a second language before the age of 13 is likely to speak it like a native that’s why “Alliance Française de Cebu” offers to children from 4 special courses. More than just an introduction our tailor-made approach is built to give your child the capability to speak French as a native :

• Les Chatons (the kittens): 4 to 7 years old. With Tatou le Matou, a multi-sensorial method, the children will learn French through exploring the 5 senses ( touch, smell, sight, taste and sound) that compose the world of young children. Perfectly adapted to pre-reading and pre-writing children, your child will feel like he is in a familiar environment and will learn smoothly.
• Les Petits Monstres (the little monsters) from 8 to 10 years old.
• Les Ados (the teenagers) from 11 to 13 years old.

YOU JUST ARRIVED AT THE GARE DU NORD OF PARIS
IN FRONT OF YOU, YOUR TEACHER HAS SUDDENLY TRANSFORMED INTO A TRAIN-TICKET VENDOR
FROM THE CD-PLAYER BOOMS OUT THE RUMBLING OF A TRAIN LEAVING THE STATION
You are lost.
ALL AROUNDYOU. EVERYBODY IS SPEAKING IN FRENCH.
AND NOW, THE TRAIN-VENDOR/TEACHER WALKS UP TO YOU AND ASKS:"VOTRE NOM, MADAME S'IL VOUS PLAIT?"

This situation is real. This is how we teach here at “Alliance Française de Cebu”. From your very first lesson, your teacher will be speaking to you in French, and, believe it or not, you will find yourself replying to him/her in French as well.

Impassioned by French language and culture, the 6 faculty members have degrees in higher learning and in teaching French as a foreign language. They are accustomed to teaching adult-learners and kids from around the world, and their knowledge of numerous other languages enables them to work with and understand their student's linguistic difficulties, while helping them meet their goals and appealing to their diverse centers of interest. Through their own on-going studies, the Alliance Francaise de Cebu teachers regularly hone their skills and constantly update their course materials

As Teachers or the administrative team, we will do our best to build your studies as a privileged moment. Find out more about us here.