Duration: duration can be adjusted according to the target level
Campus : Toulouse
Type of diploma: School certificate – Certificate of completion
Capacity: Minimum: 8 – Maximum: 15
Presentation of the training program
Whether your goal is academic, professional, or simply to feel more comfortable in everyday situations, this intensive course is designed to help you improve your oral and written skills, while gaining fluency and confidence in French.
You will learn to:
- Communicate with ease in French in a variety of contexts,
- Understand different types of documents – whether written, audio, or video,
- Acquire or reinforce your knowledge of French grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.
Beyond language learning, the course offers a rich and engaging introduction to French and Francophone culture, helping you feel more at ease and confident in your interactions.
This program is ideal for learners who want to make rapid and significant progress by fully immersing themselves in the French language.
The benefits of training
- Quality teaching by experienced teachers of French as a foreign language, using a variety of materials to stimulate learner motivation.
- Personalised pedagogical support, with individual monitoring provided by our pedagogical coordinators, including tutorials in particular.
- Authentic cultural immersion, thanks to a variety of activities in Toulouse, often free or at a moderate price.
- A stimulating university environment, with access to the university library, university restaurant and student life events.
- A recognised learning environment, validated by the Label Qualité FLE, renewed in 2025.
Educational objectives of the training
Upon completion of this training, learners will be able to:
- Understand clear and simple messages related to everyday life, identify simple information.
- Understand information in very simple documents related to everyday life.
- Respond to simple requests for personal information.
- Provide information about their activities.
- Describe an experience, an event, etc.
- Talk about themselves, their family, and their immediate environment.
- Respond to simple questions.
- Understand clear, simple messages on familiar topics.
- Understand the main points in a simple story or personal letter.
- Identify one or more specific or predictable pieces of information in a simple document related to everyday situations.
- Write a short, organized story in the past tense.
- Present information or a request related to everyday life in an organized manner (formal or informal letter, email).
- Talk about yourself and describe your immediate environment and impressions.
- Respond to questions and requests from someone you are talking to.
- Ask for simple information in predictable situations.
- Understand the main and secondary ideas and events concerning familiar or current topics in clear, standard French.
- Understand one or two texts in a comprehensive and detailed manner, including their cultural dimension.
- Identify significant information, understand common expressions, infer the meaning of certain expressions, identify conclusions and opinions.
- Understand texts in everyday language related to professional, public, and educational fields.
- Comment on developments and compare data.
- Reformulate main ideas into a coherent text.
- Express oneself in writing by relating facts in terms of their anteriority, simultaneity, and/or posteriority.
- Describe people, places, objects, states, situations, etc.
- Formulate an assessment, judgment, explanation, justification, etc.
- Produce simple, structured, and coherent speech to express opinions and feelings on familiar or current topics.
- Respond and react to requests from an interlocutor.
- Understand an authentic document.
- Reproduce the content of a conference-type document.
- Report on the nature of one or more documents, their content, and the author’s communicative intent.
- Understand one or more documents in a comprehensive and detailed manner.
- Express oneself in writing on topics related to society and general culture.
- Expressing one’s point of view in a precise and reasoned manner.
Describing events in detail. - Becoming familiar with academic writing.
- Explaining and developing a reasoned point of view on a wide range of concrete or abstract topics in a clear and structured manner.
- Understand a long authentic oral document and summarize it based on notes taken.
- Understand an authentic written document of an argumentative nature in order to answer a questionnaire and/or summarize it.
- Develop a structured and reasoned personal position in an “academic” essay.
- Present the topic of reflection developed in a dossier.
Assessment of knowledge and skills
Placement test at the beginning of the course to tailor the program.
Continuous assessments (written and oral) throughout the session.
Final progress test to measure language acquisition.
Teaching methods used:
Classes are taught in person.
- Initial assessment: assessment of the learner’s language level, specific needs, and objectives in order to personalize the program.
- Oral practice: conversation sessions to improve fluency, pronunciation, and oral expression.
- Reading and listening comprehension: reading and listening exercises to strengthen understanding of the language in a variety of contexts.
- Writing: written assignments to improve writing skills and syntactic and grammatical structure.
- Cultural aspects: integration of cultural elements.
Key figures
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Program
The training course represents a weekly volume of 18 hours, spread over the mornings from 8.30am to 12.15pm from Monday to Thursday, and from 9am to 12pm on Fridays.
It is possible to take the course over several weeks, depending on your objectives. Enrolment is open all year round, and the length of the course can be adapted to suit the level you are aiming for.
Training content
Our intensive general French courses offer a wide range of teaching activities designed to develop all of the learners’ language skills:
- Written and oral comprehension and expression activities using a variety of materials;
- Theoretical study and practical exercises in French grammar;
- Lexical enrichment, to refine and nuance expression;
- Discovery of the socio-cultural dimensions of the French-speaking world, integrated transversally into language learning.
Our dynamic, interactive teaching methods include simulations, role-playing, debates, presentations, workshops, literary studies and much more. In addition, group projects are regularly organised: treasure hunts, cultural outings, international evenings, etc.
Language reinforcement workshops – Free and open to all
Alongside the intensive courses, language reinforcement workshops are offered twice a week, from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm. These workshops are free and optional.
They enable students to practise the language in a different way, through a variety of fun activities. They are an ideal opportunity to review the concepts covered in the morning classes, in a more relaxed and friendly atmosphere. These workshops are a real opportunity to put French into action.
Cultural activities: discover Toulouse in French
In the afternoons or evenings, rich and varied cultural activities are offered to complement language learning with immersion in local culture. These outings allow learners to :
- Practise their French in real-life situations
- Discover the historical and cultural heritage of Toulouse,
- Create links with their fellow students in an informal and friendly setting.
Whether they are free or low-cost, guided or accompanied, these activities enrich the learning experience and reinforce the morning’s lessons.
Training program
Level A1
- Spell
- Count
- Greet, say goodbye, thank, apologize
- Introduce yourself, identify a person, introduce someone
- Get to know someone, ask for personal information (their last name, first name, age, address, phone number, etc.)
- Write a simple message
- Name and locate an object
- Describe a home
- Shopping, asking for and giving prices and colors, describing an object
- Introducing your family, talking about your friends and family
- Expressing your tastes, preferences, and interests
- Describing someone’s physical appearance
- Talking about your daily routine and schedule
- Asking about other people’s activities
- Asking for and giving the time
- Giving a date, placing something in time
- Ask for and give directions
- Understand and present tourist information
- Locate a place on a map or plan
- Give advice and instructions
- Ask for and give permission
- Express an order/obligation
- Make, accept, or refuse a proposal
- Make a polite request
- Talk about your intentions and plans for the weekend
- Provide information about an ongoing activity
- Report a recent event
- French letters and sounds
- The present tense of regular and common verbs
- Personal subject pronouns and stressed pronouns
- The gender of nouns and adjectives
- Prepositions before country names
- Singular and plural nouns
- Definite and indefinite articles
- The forms: “il y a” / “c’est/ce sont” / “voici!” / “voilà!” “
- Prepositions of place: “à, au, de, chez, avec, dans”
- Questions: “qui ?, où ?, quel(le) ?, pourquoi ?”
- Questions with “Qu’est-ce que” and “Est-ce que”
- Questions with “comment” and “combien”
- Demonstrative and possessive adjectives
- The polite present conditional “I would like,” “I would love to”
- The verbs “to like,” “to adore,” “to hate”
- Negation “ne….pas / jamais” (not…never)
- The verbs “to do,” “to play,” “to play with”
- Qualifying adjectives
- Reflexive verbs
- The imperative (some verbs)
- The pronoun “y” (place)
- The cardinal points
- Prepositions of time: “at 8:30 a.m., in 2016”
- The verbs “devoir,” “pouvoir,” and ‘vouloir’
“Il faut / il ne faut pas + infinitive” - The near future “Je vais + infinitive”
- The present progressive: “Je suis en train de + infinitive”
- The recent past: “je viens de + infinitive”
- The compound past with “avoir” and “être”
- Numbers
- Nationalities
- Professions
- French-speaking countries
- Housing, rooms, furniture, and household items
- Colors / Pastel and the Land of Plenty
Clothing and accessories - Shopping
- Family, social relationships
- Activities, sports, and leisure in Midi
- Pyrénées
- Household chores
- Physical description
- The human body
- My portrait / Someone else’s portrait
- Daily activities / My day / My schedule
- Dates, days, months, seasons
- Time and times of day / The Toulouse quarter hour
- The city of Toulouse and the Midi-Pyrénées region
- Means of transportation
- Well-being and health
- Plans for the weekend and holidays
- Studies, professions
- The career of a
- Toulouse artist
- Situations and polite expressions
- Informal and formal forms of address
- Apologies
- Expressions used in friendly letters/emails
Level A2
- Recount past events, a memory, an anecdote, a sequence of events, news items, a past experience.
- Place events in time.
- Write a short biography.
- Report past states and habits.
- Compare things and people.
- Present a country, a city, and its inhabitants.
- Present advantages and disadvantages
- Talk about your eating habits
- Make a shopping list
- Understand and write a recipe
- Describe objects, talk about their function
- Make predictions, talk about your future, talk about your plans
- Make assumptions
- Prepare a vacation itinerary
- Write a postcard
- Ask someone how they are
- Make an appointment
- Accept and decline an invitation
- Ask about places, things, and people
- Express agreement/disagreement
- Evaluate, appreciate
- Ask for and offer help
- Ask for and give advice
- Express the cause, explain your choices, give a reason
- Express wishes and feelings
- Express goals
- Describe how to do something
- The past tense with “avoir” and ‘être’
- Agreement of the past participle with “être”
- The imperfect tense (formation and usage)
- Simple comparison (with nouns, adjectives, and verbs)
- Partitive articles
- The pronoun “en” (quantity)
- Direct object pronouns and indirect object pronouns / some indirect verbs
- The three meanings of “on”: we, people, someone
- The simple future tense
- Hypothesis about the present and the future
- Simple relative pronouns “qui,” “que,” “où”
- Adjectives
- Negation: “ne…pas, ne…plus, ne…jamais, ne…rien, ne…personne”
- Alternation between the passé composé and the imparfait
- Chronological connectors: “d’abord, puis, ensuite, après, enfin”
- Adverbs of time: “maintenant, bientôt, demain”
- The present conditional
- Prepositional verbs “to stop thinking about”
- Indefinite adjectives “tout, toute, tous, toutes”
- Expressing cause and effect: “because of, thanks to, as, because, since, so, that’s why”
- The present subjunctive (awareness)
- Expressing obligation and desire
- Expressing purpose: “to/in order to + infinitive”
- Adverbs ending in “ment”
- The gerund (simultaneity)
- Traditional celebrations
- Childhood memories
- Life today and life in the past
- Living environment: city and countryside
- Fashion
- Food, cooking, and local cuisine
- Everyday objects
- Technological objects, inventions
- The weather
- The world of tomorrow
- Vacations, travel
- The education system, studies, training
- Career plans
- The world of work
- People, places
- Habits, preferences
- The media, current events, news stories
- Health, well-being, sports
- The environment, climate, ecology
- Superstitions and beliefs
- Community life / associations in Toulouse
- Clichés and stereotypes
- Good manners and etiquette in everyday life
- Expressions and rituals used in telephone conversations
- Invitation phrases
- Thank you phrases
- Phrases used in friendly letters/emails
Leval B1
- Understanding and recounting past events, past experiences
- Asking for and giving information about daily habits, news about someone
- Understanding newspaper articles, news items
- Understanding/giving current events, information about an event
- Asking for and giving advice, explanations, details
- Expressing an obligation
- Compare objects, behaviors, eras, etc.
- Make suggestions and respond to proposals
- Express wishes, hopes, intentions
- Express willingness and offer services
- Express cause and effect
- Express your opinion, point of view, explain your choices and justify them
- Cope with an unexpected situation while traveling
- Talk about your professional experience
- Conduct an interview, attend an interview
- Report someone’s words and statements
- Make assumptions about the future and the present
- Express satisfaction or dissatisfaction, make a complaint
- Write a formal, administrative, or business letter
- Present a problem and propose solutions
- Explain choices, express reservations or opposition
- Give a presentation on a given topic
- Evaluate and appreciate (films/books)
- Express regret
- The imperfect/compound past tense
- The past participle and its agreement with “avoir”
- The pluperfect (action prior to another action)
- The simple future tense
- The future perfect tense
- The present conditional (expression of feelings, wishes, obligations, and desires)
- The present subjunctive (possibility, obligation)
- Comparatives (nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs)
- Irregular comparatives and progressive comparisons
- Superlatives
- Simple relative pronouns (review + “dont”) and compound relative pronouns
- Possessive and demonstrative pronouns
- Emphasis
- Purpose, cause, and consequence
- The conditional past tense (regret)
- Tense agreement
- Reported speech in the present and past tenses
- The gerund (manner, condition, simultaneity)
- The present participle (cause/manner)
- Adverbs of manner (ending in -ment) and quantity (revision)
- Double direct object pronouns (revision) and indirect object pronouns
- The nominal sentence
- The passive voice
- Indefinite pronouns (adjectives and pronouns)
- Negation and restriction
- Discourse markers “first, then, finally… ”
- Contrast and concession
- Hypothesis “If + imperfect + present conditional”
- The education system, studies, training
- Work, the professional world
- Health, social security
- Leisure and extreme sports
- Arts and culture
- Ecology, the environment, and local initiatives
- The media, current events
- New technologies and communication tools
- Consumption
- Vacations, travel, alternative tourism
- Social relationships, family
- Feelings and emotions
- Memories
- Customs, cultural traditions
- IT, technical progress
- People: physical description, character, personality
- Formulas for friendly letters/emails
- Formulas for formal, administrative letters
- Speaking: beginning and ending a presentationé
Level B2
- Describe detailed events in the past
- Give a presentation on a topic or project
- Express and defend your opinion
- Disagree with a point of view
- Rephrase/paraphrase to explain
- Summarize a text or discussion
- Identify a point of view and reasoning
- Identify the speaker’s tone/humor
- Synthesize information and positions from various sources
- Presenting a problem and proposing solutions
- Formulating hypotheses
- Presenting the advantages and disadvantages of a given situation
- Conducting an interview
Introducing an argument - Developing a logical and coherent argument
- Highlighting the main and secondary points of an argument
- Concluding an argument
- Express possibility and probability
- Express doubt
- Write common administrative and professional letters
- Take notes
- Evaluate and appreciate (cinema, literature, graphic arts, etc.)
- Express satisfaction and dissatisfaction
- Complain by phone and mail
- Express regret
- Past tense in narrative (present, past perfect, imperfect)
- Past participle and its agreement (special cases)
- Pluperfect tense
- Past infinitive
- Future perfect tense
- Conditional clauses with “à condition que, pourvu que, au cas où”
- Conditional tense (present and past for advice, regret, reproach)
- Tense agreement in indirect speech in the past tense
- The subjunctive (after verbs, impersonal constructions, and conjunctive phrases for feelings, doubt, wishes, obligations, desires, judgments, opposition, concessions)
- The gerund
- The present participle and the verbal adjective
- Hypotheses
- Double pronominalization
- Compound relative pronouns
- Emphasis “what, which, that which”
- Opposition “on the other hand, without however
- Purpose “in order to, with the aim of, so that
- Cause “because of, under the pretext of, due to, as a result of, following, for lack of, because of, due to, for fear of “
- The consequence “as a result of this fact, that is why, so that, so much so that, as long as, so much so that, thus”
- The concession “nevertheless, however, only, all the same, yet, in spite of, although, even if”
- Negation/restriction
- Connectives “in addition, moreover”
- Common abbreviations
- History
- Customs, cultural traditions, and cultural norms
- Culture (different art forms)
- Fashion
- Law and justice
- Health
- The environment, climate, and ecology
- The media, access to information, and current events
- Social trends and issues
- Information and communication technologies
- Scientific innovations
- Religions and secularism
- The world of work, professional life
- Discrimination/solidarity
- Equality/parity
- Politics, the three branches of government
- Citizenship and acquiring French nationality
- Immigration
- The French-speaking world
- Globalization
- Traditional trade and fair trade
- Formal letter writing, administrative correspondence
- Speaking: beginning and ending a presentation
- Rituals of formal discussion: turn-taking, phatic elements, intonation, etc.
- Written communication in business
- Language registers and slang
- Different types of academic writing
Level C1
- Understand a wide range of long and demanding texts and grasp implicit meanings and subtle nuances
- Summarize a discussion or long text on a specific topic, highlighting relevant positions and arguments
- Synthesize information and arguments from various sources
- Develop a structured and coherent argument and defend it
- Demonstrate control of the tools of organization, articulation, and cohesion of discourse
- Use language flexibly and effectively in social situations
- Anteriority, simultaneity, posteriority (agreement of tenses, prepositions, and expressions)
- The simple past tense
- The past subjunctive: action prior to the present moment
- Cause “considering that, especially since, above all”
- Consequence “to such an extent that, to the point that”
- Purpose “verb + à ce que + subj, de crainte que + subj”
- Condition/hypothesis (sentences with “if” and conjunctions)
- Opposition/concession
- Degrees of appreciation (formulas for attenuation and reinforcement)
- Degrees of intensity: superlatives, adverbs, prefixes, and suffixes
- Synonyms: pejorative and euphemistic nuances
- Stylistic devices
- Language registers: grammatical and syntactic variants
- History
- Customs, cultural traditions, and cultural norms
- Culture (different art forms)
- Fashion
- Law and justice
- Health
- The environment, climate, and ecology
- The media, access to information, and current events
- Social trends and issues
- Information and communication technologies
- Scientific innovations
- Religions and secularism
- The world of work, professional life
- Discrimination / Solidarity
- Equality/parity
- Politics, the three branches of government
- Citizenship and acquiring French nationality
- Immigration
- The French-speaking world
- Globalization
- Traditional trade and fair trade
- Language registers
- The rituals of debate and argumentation
- Implicitness and connotations
- Idiomatic expressions
- Humor, irony, and double meanings
- Different types of academic writing
Teaching staff
The teaching team is made up of dynamic teachers who are experts in teaching French as a foreign language, all of whom have more than 15 years of experience in this field. They hold Master’s degrees in teaching French as a foreign language.
Regularly trained in the latest teaching methods, the teachers are committed to a process of continuous reflection and improvement of their practices.
For any inquiries, suggestions for improvement, or complaints, please contact:
Cos and financing
ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026:
A registration fee of €72 applies to all enrollments.
Intensive course fees:
1-month intensive course: 72 hours – €758
3-week intensive course: 54 hours – €600
2-week intensive courses: 36 hours – €405
1-week intensive courses: 18 hours – €226
1-month summer intensive courses: 80 hours – €895
3-week summer intensive courses: 60 hours – €679
Intensive 2-week summer courses: 40 hours – €458
Intensive 1-week summer courses: 20 hours – €242
For registrations of 4 to 6 months: a 4% discount is applied to each month.
For registrations of 7 months or more: an 8% discount is applied to each month.
You can pay for your registration:
By bank transfer
In cash, by check, or by credit card: at the IULCF office located at 31, rue de la Fonderie, building C2, 2nd floor, office C207 (hours: Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Friday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
It is possible to set up a payment plan.
These prices are net of tax.
Admission
Registration is for one-month sessions, but it is possible to register for 1, 2, or 3 weeks.
Prerequisites
Applicants must:
Be aged 16 or over (parental consent required for minors).
Admission requirements
If you wish to register, you must:
- Download the registration form
- Send the registration file with all the required documents to the IULCF secretariat by email to iulcf@ict-toulouse.fr or drop it off at the IULCF office located at 31, rue de la Fonderie, building C2, 2nd floor, office C207 (opening hours: Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 2pm-5pm and Friday 8am-1pm)
Documents to be included with the registration form:
- The dated and signed terms and conditions form
- The completed and signed image rights form
- A photocopy of your passport and VISA (if applicable)
- One passport photo
- Signed parental authorization (if the student is a minor)
- Pay the tuition fees according to the terms indicated in the registration file.
Documents and resources
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