<p>Hello,
Can anyone recommend or list the most effective, demanding summer programs for advanced French students who want to develop fluency, both in US and abroad?</p>
<p>This would be for a 17 1/2 year old who has run out of French courses to take during her Senior year of HS. She is looking for something more than just an exchange program or group HS program- she has done those already and they are not rigorous or effective enough for her current purposes because they do not force complete immersion (100% French spoken).
Her current French teacher is impressed with the Middlebury 7 week program for college age and older. Has anyone from HS attended that program?
And he is not familiar with how effective the Middlebury program for HS'ers is at achieving fluency, etc. Anyone have any info about that program?
Anyone know of any others to consider??</p>
<p>For some things, I’m a big fan of the Concordia Language Villages. This summer, my D plans to attend their college credit session. In the past, it’s been taught by a Ph.D from UMichegan. The entire camp is an immersion camp with kids of several different levels participating at once, but there are never many in the college-credit session (perhaps 2-6). So, although they are participating in cultural activities with other kids, their classroom experience tends to be pretty high level. The course name this year is: Race, Gender and Power in the Francophone World. I suspect it is literature based. As a bonus - it’s cheaper than Midd!</p>
<p>Isn’t French Canadian a bit different than French itself? I have a friend from Quebec, and she taught lessons to our kids when they were young, and when my daughter started french in school in 5th grade, there were some noticeable differences. Anyone else encounter that? She’s in 10th grade now and is also looking at complete immersion. Her French teacher is taking a group of girls to his hometown and will immerse them, but she doesn’t want to go with her school.</p>
<p>The programs in Quebec will most likely teach Quebecois, yes. I believe the Nova Scotia program has teachers from all over (and not just Canada), but teaches standard Canadian French (not the same as Quebecois) with Acadian influences.</p>
<p>My S attended MMLA(on the Middlebury campus) last summer and had a phenomenal learning experience in the Spanish program. Adult students come from all walks of life(clergy, law enforcement, college students from schools throughout the country). Both the students and the faculty (who also hail from a multitude of places) are extraordinarily committed and take a language pledge that the target language will be the only language used 24/7. My son even changed his Facebook to Spanish only.At the dining hall all meals were at a Spanish language table.</p>
<p>When he returned to his college for the fall semester he comfortably entered an upper level Spanish literature class where he was comfortable reading, analyzing and conversing solely in Spanish.</p>
<p>Make sure you sign up early and do not get closed out!</p>
<p>My daughter attended summer program at laval uni in Quebec and she learned more in 6 weeks than in 3 years of high school. Plus the price was right at $2k.</p>