A Season in France:
Perfect for the person who wants a longer stay every year — not a tourist anymore, not yet ready to stay forever but definitely want a life, vs. a vacation.
You are ready to begin to belong.
Cost for the 11-week program
Range from
$441 – $984/pp
/per week
depending on your choices of accommodation, occupancy and intensity of the language program
Tuition for Learning & Community:
What’s included in this portion?
Accommodations
Costs, Questions and details
*Some options exist for shorter stays
**Currency rates adjustments apply at time of final payment; current cost based on 1 euro =$1.20 USD
Basically, what’s included:
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- ACCOMMODATIONS: apartments we’ve tested personally,
- Approximately 20% off the market price
- No bad beds, funny smells or crap knives
- A wide variety of features, pluses and minuses; we’ll want to talk to you before you choose
- You can talk to someone who’s stayed there
- See all the apartments & their details here:
- LEARNING
- Language
- 3 lessons a week for 1.5 hours with a small group at your level (the maximum time recommended by our credentialed teacher. Options for additional hours and practice)
- Culture
- Arts & Culture calendar for culture with a capital “C”
- Culture Cafe: One morning weekly conversation with well- informed locals on various themes, including
- French History & Culture
- Cross-cultural Understanding: France and the US
- Where & how do I belong?
- Online predeparture course focussed on choosing a town and building skills for a life in France (full or part-time)
- Language
- COMMUNITY
- With one another (maybe the best thing about the trip, according to Try-It-Outers alumni)
- With members of local community organizations (and options for volunteer roles,perhaps coaching English, working in a vineyard, helping at a food bank,etc. )
- ACCOMMODATIONS: apartments we’ve tested personally,
Why did we pick Angers, France as the try-it-out-town?
Why we donate all our profits to the English Language library in Angers
A “Try-It-Out-Trip”
