Your French Language trip to Nice & Marseille
Improve your French with an immersive experience in Provence
Do you need a plan for your group’s stay in Provence?
For mixed groups:
- Children aged 13 and over
- Adults… no age limit
- Minimum group size: 10
Flexible trip designed for children and young adults
- Departures available all year round
- Half-board accommodation: home stay, youth hostel etc.
- Including public transport and transfers
A 100% tailor-made stay
With or without French lessons
Length of stay to suit flights and budget
Activities and trips to suit you: culture, sport, games etc.
“Wonderful way to immerse your language learning and learn more about French culture and history. Very knowledgeable and entertaining guide!”
4 reasons to study French language and culture in Nice & Marseille
1. The sunshine in Provence
It’s not a holiday without the sunshine, is it? You can count on the Côte d’Azur in any season with an average of 300 days of sunshine every year!
2. Put the “fun” into “functional”: French lessons on the beach
… French lessons in the morning, beach time in the afternoon! A real seaside holiday!
3. The Provençal hinterland is just as beautiful as the Mediterranean coast
It’s near Les Baux de Provence and the Alps, so there are lots of fabulous outings and stunning scenery to explore to give you a change from the beautiful Mediterranean beaches.
4. Nice and Marseille: two very different cities bursting with culture
An exciting melting pot and treasure trove for art and history!
Our language trip options:
indulge your inner culture in Nice & Marseille
Our language stay programmes and details
With French lessons
The perfect balance between French lessons and cultural activities to EXPERIENCE French language and CULTURE on an immersive break in Provence.
- Tailor-made 5-15 day stay.
- 2 hours of French lessons every weekday, usually in the morning.
- Cultural and recreational afternoon trips: guided tours of museums, monuments or historical landmarks, market trips, tastings, cookery classes, photo challenges, food tours, perfume making workshops and more.
- Half-board: Including 2 group meals per day (host family and/or travel group), 1 meal at your leisure per day.
- Accommodation in a host family (2/3 students per family), residence or hotel (multiple rooms).
Without French lessons
A programme entirely devoted to French CULTURE: tours, excursions and experiences on an immersive language break in Provence.
- Tailor-made 5-15 day stay.
- Cultural and recreational trips: guided tours of museums, monuments or historical landmarks, market trips, tastings, cookery classes, photo challenges, food tours, perfume making workshops and more.
- Free time to soak up the city.
- Half-board: Including 2 group meals per day (host family and/or travel group), 1 meal at your leisure per day.
- Accommodation in a host family (2/3 students per family), residence or hotel (multiple rooms).
Here’s a sample schedule for a French study abroad trip in Provence:
Jet off for 2 weeks on the Mediterranean
Stop in Nice
Visit the Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Marc Chagall Museum, Matisse Museum stroll on the Promenade des Anglais.
Stop at the Gorges du Verdon
Spend the day hiking in one of the most beautiful canyons in Europe amid turquoise lakes.
Stop in Grasse
Visit the French perfume capital and take part in a craft workshop.
Stop in Montpellier
Stroll through the city to visit Place de la Comédie and the Fabre Museum (fine arts).
Stop in Marseille
Vieux Port, Notre Dame de la Garde Basilica, MUCEM, Château d’If, Calanques and more.
Transport and accommodation
Transport and transfers
All our stays include airport transfers (Lyon Saint Exupéry Airport) and public transport tickets for all travellers (valid from Monday morning to Sunday night)
Vacances Actives Linguistiques provides a free place for 1 group leader per 15 students (same bed and board basis as students with free tours and activities).
Accommodation
We provide the following half-board accommodation options:
- Host family (the best for a real immersive experience), 2-3 students per family
- 2 or 3* hotels, apartment hotels or youth hostels (multiple rooms)
Our tailor-made tours and activities
Our trips, workshops and themed walks (sample list)
Museums in Nice
- Modern Art Museum
- National Sport Museum
- Marc Chagall Museum
- Matisse Museum
- Fine Arts Museum
- Naïve Art Museum
- Museum of Wonders
Museums in Provence
- Renoir Museum (Cagnes sur Mer)
- Picasso Museum (Antibes)
- Archaeology Museum (Antibes)
- Peynet and Cartoon Museum (Antibes)
- Fernand Léger Museum (Vallauris)
- Fondation Maeght (Saint Paul de Vence).
Workshops and experiences – in and around Nice
- Foodie tours: Nice specialities
- Treasure hunts
- Photo challenges
- Oil mill, the last working mill in Nice
- Craft brewery
- Wine Museum
- Cookery class
- Confiserie Florian sweet shop
- Perfume workshop and Perfume Museum tour
- Verrerie de Biot glassmakers
Guided tours - in and around Nice
- Vieux Nice, tour of Nice neighbourhoods and buildings
- Saint Nicolas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
- Archaeological crypt
- Côte d’Azur Observatory
- Fort Carré d’Antibes
- Château Grimaldi and Museum in Cagnes sur Mer
- Villefranche sur Mer old town and citadel
Themed tours in Provence
- Ephrussi de Rothschild Villa and Grounds in Nice
- Kérylos Greek Villa in Beaulieu
- Mediterranean dolphin and whale marine reserve
- Souterroscope at Baume Obscure Cave
- Visiobulle: boat with transparent hull
Our day trips in Provence
(inc. admission and transport, 10 hr day trip subject to destination)
- Saint Tropez by boat and Port Grimaud
- Aix en Provence and Cézanne’s Studio
- Avignon (Palais des Papes)
- Antibes, its streets and markets
- Grasse, Perfume Capital
- Vallauris (Picasso Chapel, château, pottery studio)
- Calanques de Cassis + boat trip
- Gorges du Verdon
- Les Baux de Provence (Château des Baux and Images Cathedral)
- Lazaret Cave
- Hilltop village tour (Eze, Gourdon, Tourettes sur Loup, Saint Paul)
- Île Sainte Marguerite and Îles de Lérins.
Our French schools and courses
Our French teachers in Nice and our partner guides
You know you can count on our qualified French teachers who have been working with Vacances Actives Linguistiques for years. We’ve joined forces with French schools and passionate teachers who love working with young learners and adults using a teaching method based on communication.
They provide a comfortable and modern set-up for students of all ages in major town centres, near cultural activities and public transport to keep travel time to a minimum.
All our guides and chauffeurs are certified to teach French as a foreign language and adapt their speech to suit all abilities.
French class in our partner Nice schools
Is your mission to help your students gain confidence in speaking and improve their French? Get the best of both worlds with our experienced teachers: soak up the culture and improve your French. We provide a French level test at the start of the stay to put students in the right class for their ability. The weekly timetable is up to the students.
French lessons are optional and tend to be in the morning. Outings and activities take place in the afternoons.
Students receive their own course certificate stating their class attendance and the level they’ve achieved at the end of their course.
