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Great ways to improve your French Part II – TV & Box Sets!

 | Chamonix, Insted, Study languages
There are more opportunities for learning French (for free) around you than you may realise. Your TV is a great option in the home to keep the French conversation flowing, all you have to do is tune in, watch and learn! When you’re getting ready for work in the morning, how about putting on your TV and tuning […] Read more

Final few days with our Overland group

 | Chamonix, Insted, Study languages
After a rather soggy camping trip to Vallorcine at the weekend, our Overland group have had a fun few days learning French and exploring the mountains around Chamonix. The group had a great lesson with Tristan and Myriam learning about movies and comic books in French, and then watched the famous Asterix movie. Myriam created a […] Read more

Great ways to improve your French: Part 1

 | Chamonix, Insted, Study languages
  There are many great ways to improve your French. No need to sweat for hours a day, cramming in as much as you possibly can from a boring textbook. How about spending short bursts of time studying and slowly immersing yourself in the language in other ways? For example try spending an hour each […] Read more

Motivated? …. Check out our Autumn Courses 2016

 | Chamonix, Insted, Study languages
You may find this hard to believe, but French is not a difficult language to learn. In fact no language is that difficult to learn. Any language can be easy to grasp if you have the right frame of mind! When it comes to learning a new language, as with anything in life, not everybody is […] Read more

Cooling off in Lake Annecy

 | Chamonix, Insted
  Our Overland students spent Wednesday last week in beautiful Annecy. Miriam and Tristan set some tasks in French for the students to carry out whilst exploring the town. After some ice cream from the best ice cream parlour in Annecy, the group payed some French games by the lake. It was lovely and hot so […] Read more

A day trip to Annecy

 | Chamonix, Insted
Our Overland students got away from the valley on Wednesday this week and spent the day in Annecy. The change of scenery was refreshing – as was the lake! The group went for a swim and went on a waterslide into the lake. The students visited the old part of Annecy and had a ‘scavenger hunt’ in […] Read more

Safety first! Visit to the Chamoniarde OHM

 | Chamonix, Insted
Together with our students from Overland we had a mountain safety session at our local Office de Haute Montagne  (OHM) on the 30th June. OHM is the best place to go for educational, up to date mountain information, weather conditions and safety briefings. At Insted in Chamonix we cooperate closely with OHM and strongly believe this educational […] Read more