Learn French Naturally
While experiencing French culture & nature
Serious about mastering French? Learn fast with a native teacher inspired by the proven Nuns of Vught method. Full immersion in the French Alps or flexible online lessons – all tailored to your goals.
Programs
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Full Immersion
Speak French with confidence in just 5 days through a personalised immersion experience in the French Alps. Each day combines private lessons, real-life conversation practice, and activities you enjoy – from hiking, cycling or skiing to cheese and wine tasting, cultural visits or creative workshops. This approach makes learning natural, practical, interactive and enjoyable.
Ideal for professionals who want fast progress and real results, fully tailored to your goals, level and interests.
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Group immersion
Learn French together with colleagues, friends, or a small group in a personalized immersion experience. Programs can be adapted to any duration, from multiple half days up to a full 5-day week – the latter giving the fastest and most effective progress. Each day combines private lessons, real-life conversation, and activities everyone enjoys, making learning natural, interactive, and fun. Perfect for professionals who want meaningful progress in social setting.
Online Lessons
Learn French from anywhere with one-on-one online lessons tailored to your goals and schedule. Practice conversation, complete interactive exercises, and get targeted coaching to maintain or grow your skills. Perfect for professionals who want to keep progressing, prepare for an immersion program, or fit learning into a busy lifestyle.
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Shorter Immersion
Gain confidence in French in just a few days through a personalized immersion experience. Programs can be tailored to 2-day, 4-day, or multiple half-day formats, combining private lessons, real-life conversation practice, and activities you love – from hiking, cycling, or skiing to cultural or creative experiences. Perfect for professionals with limited time who still want meaningful, targeted progress.
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All our programs are fully tailored to your goals, needs, and personal situation. For immersion programs, we select activities together based on your interests and learning objectives – from cultural visits and wine or cheese tasting to outdoor adventures or board games. You can join individually, bring a friend or small group, or opt for an incompany program. Full immersion weeks can also be taken in half-days, giving you more free time while still making effective progress. Whether you choose a full immersion week, a long weekend, a half-day program, or online lessons, everything is designed around what works best for you.
We recommend a free video call to assess your current French level, learning style, and goals. This allows us to advise which program(s) suit you best, suggest additional days if needed, and guide you on how to prepare—whether refreshing your French or learning the basics before your training.
Methodology
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Scientifically Grounded
Based on proven didactic principles such as spaced repetition, active practice, contextual learning, and motivation-building for long-term results.
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Effective Daily Routine
Structured days with private lessons, self-study and e-learning, interactive activities, and natural conversation with locals—balanced with rest and well-being.
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Personal Intake
Your level, goals, and learning style are assessed in advance, so your program fits perfectly. You receive guidance to prepare before you start.
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Practical & Social Learning
You learn by doing—through real-life situations and meaningful activities—making learning natural, memorable, and confidence-building.
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Intensive Flow
Focused immersion days create a strong learning rhythm, helping you internalize the language faster, stay motivated, and make steady progress.
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Expert Guidance
One-on-one coaching from a native teacher with 22 years of experience ensures correct pronunciation, natural interaction, and personal support.
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Tailored Lessons
All lessons are adapted to your goals, professional context, interests, and learning style for maximum relevance and engagement.
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Fast & Effective Results
Visible progress in a short time, supported by a clear structure and feedback. You complete your program with a personalized certificate.
Our teaching approach is inspired by the renowned method of the Languages Institute Regina Coeli in the Netherlands, also known as “the nuns of Vught,” and refined through more than 22 years of professional teaching experience. The method combines intensive personalized lessons with practical and social learning in small settings for maximum progress. Each program is built around your goals, with clear learning objectives for the week and per day.
Before starting, we assess your current French level and learning style through a personal intake, ensuring your program truly fits your needs. The methodology is scientifically grounded and based on proven didactic techniques, including appropriate spaced repetition, active practice, rapid and moderated correction, a strong focus on listening and speaking, kinesthetic learning (using body and facial expression), contextual learning, energy management, and a positive learning mindset to build motivation and confidence.
Learning is interactive and immersive. You practice French in real-life situations such as ordering meals, cultural visits, and guided outdoor activities. Role-plays, conversations, and simulated professional situations are carefully timed and structured, helping you internalize vocabulary and grammar naturally while strengthening fluency and comprehension.
Each day follows a clear structure with private lessons, personalized learning time (self-study and e-learning), and interactive activities that encourage natural communication with locals. Well-being also plays a key role: balance is maintained between effort and recovery, supported by the calming Alpine environment and access to wellness facilities. Hôtel de la Roche offers a swimming pool, sauna, hammam, spa, and massage options—ideal for relaxation between learning sessions.
By combining immersion, structured learning, meaningful practice, and a scientifically supported approach, this method offers effective and enjoyable language progress in a short time—with results you can feel and measure.
About Me
I’m Yves Pessy, a Frenchman teaching French with 22 years of experience at the renowned language institute Regina Coeli in the Netherlands, also known as “the nuns of Vught / de Nonnen van Vught”. After living in this beautiful low country for 29 years, I now help professionals, people moving to a French-speaking country, and lovers of French culture gain confidence and fluency in French in Savoie, in the northern French Alps, where the majestic Mont Blanc towers over the landscape.
Learners often say I bring calm focus and trust to the learning process. I enjoy teaching because it combines applying a wide range of skills with a genuine interest in the person I’m working with. By doing so, I allow the learner to be themselves, feel at ease, feel trusted and guided, and truly able to learn. Sometimes I help them discover how they learn best – each person has their own learning style. All this together makes for a happy learner, and this happiness brings me joy in return. It creates an exchange of positive energy.
My philosophy is simple: language is best learned in a comfortable and beautiful environment, through real-life practice and strong motivation. Programs are tailored to your professional or personal goals, interests, and learning style. Together, we select activities and cultural experiences that make your learning natural, relevant, motivating and therefore faster.
For your comfort, I have selected the best accommodation and dining options in one of the last quiet and authentic Alpine valleys, right in the heart of the Beaufortain mountains. There you can discover how the king of Alpine cheese, the delicious Beaufort, is made—just 200 meters from where you will study, sleep and eat in the charming town of Beaufort-sur-Doron.
Outside of teaching, I enjoy the mountains, nature, hiking, skiing, playing guitar, singing, meditation, learning languages and exploring different cultures. I am widely interested in many aspects of life, such as economics, business, politics, history, science, farming, education, spirituality and religions, and the arts. I’m a proud father of three—Tyfaine, the youngest, who lives with me in France, and Anouschka and Youri, who live and work in the Netherlands.
My goal for you is not only to learn French efficiently in a short time, but also to truly enjoy the experience as a human being. By combining meaningful practice with activities you love, fun and learning reinforce each other—helping you gain confidence and make rapid progress.
Inspiring Setting & Hotel
Activities & Experiences
Stay at the brand-new, luxurious Hôtel De La Roche in Beaufort-sur-Doron, in the beautiful Savoie region (the northern part of the French Alps). Enjoy a serene, inspiring environment with spacious rooms, calm décor, spa, sauna, pool, bar, and a gastronomy-oriented restaurant. Watch here: https://www.hotellaroche.fr/en/
Depending on the season, enjoy ski lessons in French (and in English for beginners who don’t yet understand 100% French), guided snowshoe outings, guided hikes or bike rides, cooking or creative workshops like painting and drawing, museum visits, observing and learning about Beaufort cheese making, wine tasting lessons, or simply board games and role plays. Activities are chosen based on your interests, the time of year, and the availability of the instructors.
Training Location
Lessons take place at Larusta coworking center, with a common area for coffee or tea and a printer, just 80 meters away from Hôtel De La Roche, next to the charming City Hall and opposite a magnificent medieval arched bridge and perched church of Beaufort. Between your hotel and the town hall, you'll walk along the torrential Doron River on one side and pass a bakery and a busy café with a terrace on the other side. The local market takes place every Wednesday on the other side of the Doron, opposite the hotel, accessible through a narrow wooden roofed bridge. A bit further down the river, about 200 meters away, is the milk cooperative where the 40 kg Beaufort cheeses are made. There are other hotels and restaurants in town as well as several shops and cafés.
Flexible Stay Options
Prefer to arrange your own accommodation? That’s possible. Contact us to discuss the options and pricing, which can be adjusted according to your needs.
Launch pricing
Limited-Time Launch Offer: Take advantage of our special launch pricing when booking before December 31, 2025. These exclusive rates apply to full immersion programs commencing from January 2026 and concluding by March 27, 2026.
Full Immersion
2800,-
Intensive program for maximum progress. Includes one-to-one or small-group teacher dining (up to 4) and 6 hours of interactive cultural/outdoor activities.
*Hours of 55 minutes.
Short Immersion
780,- per day | 399,- per half-day | 799,- per day during a weekend
Perfect for a focused, short experience. Includes lessons, personal study, and selected activities.
Online Lessons
85,- per hour*
Flexible private lessons tailored to your needs, from anywhere in the world. Available as follow up or as preparation of a intensive course in Beaufort
*Hour of 50 minutes.
Customized Pricing
Programs can be adapted to your goals, schedule, or group. You can also arrange your own meals or accommodation if preferred. Bringing a friend or small group is possible, and the price can be adjusted to reflect group rates. Contact us to discuss a customized program and price.
*All prices are in euros and excluding logies and meals.
