We answer your key questions

It's simple as pie! Go on the programme page in which you would like to get involved and click on ”apply now” button. We will require you to fill in our application form and describe shortly your context and motivation. We'll contact you back then, usually within a day, to offer you a ~30mn interview in Paris or via Zoom to get to know each other better, understand better your needs and assess you current French level so that we make sure the programme perfectly matches your expectancies, and answer any questions or doubts you might still have regarding learning French. Of course, It's free and non-binding! If we both want to start together the French classes, we'll send you a contract and a quote. And then, enjoy! 😉

You need to be 18 to enroll for the course. However you can apply if you are 17 as long as you turn 18 before the start of your French programme.

As soon as you apply, our pedagogy coordinator will contact you to plan an interview. As soon you confirm your wish to learn French with us through a specific French course, we will need some time to finalize your administrative onboarding, to pair you up with the teacher who will fit best your profile and situation and organize your first session. For individual classes, it's safe to allow a usual period of 8 days between your interview and the actual start of your classes. For group classes, 5 days are usually enough!

Well, it depends on the programme you would like to attend! Have a look on each programme dedicated page on the site to check the related tuition fees! Please note that these fees are only valid for private individuals who finance by themselves their training. Different prices apply for businesses and externally financed trainings. You can contact us for more details.

We accept payment by bank transfer (any extra fees are your responsibility) and cheques in euros. We issue an invoice prior to any payments.

No, we will provide you with all the necessary learning material as well as the access to our online learning platform, Neo. Everything is included in your tuition fee.

If you own a CPF (Compte Personnel de Formation), you may then ask for a financial grant from the French State to help you to fund your training. As an authorized training organisation, our 1-on-1 French classes might be eligible to it as soon as you prepare an official French exam like the Diplôme de Compétences en Langues. If you don't know whether you have a CPF, please, just ask your HR manager.

Your company or spouse's company, when based in France, might have a training plan to help you to improve your French while you are in France. As a company which paies taxes in France, your company has the opportunity to raise funds granted by their OPCO to cover totally or partially your own training fees. As we are an authorized training school, our training offer is eligible to get financed by the OPCO and therefore, by your company. You definitely should ask your HR or mobility manager for this! If you have any further questions regarding how to proceed, contact us!

We don't, as we can see that our students prefer to look by themselves the right accommodation according to their budget and preferences. It's so easy nowadays with Internet!

As Parisians, we can provide you however with insider tips to help you find and book the best accomodation in town! Just tell us what you're looking for!

We invite you to ask your closest French consulate to check wether you need a visa to learn French with us.

We do not currently provide any assistance to non EU residents for French Visa requests. We invite you to check with your embassy to know whether you are allowed to attend the training with a Tourist Visa. In general, we strongly advice you to get prior information before asking any French schools for a non-refundable certificate of pre-registration, as there is no certainty whether you will be granted a mid or long-term Visa in France.

Yes, we do try our best to serve anyone with disability, whatever the degree of disability. All you need is to share with us what kind of disability you have and, if possible, what adjustments you would think you need to follow your classes in the best conditions. You can read more on our dedicated page. If you have any additional questions, feel free to call us before you apply!

At the end of your course you can get a French language certificate that shows your level and the number of course hours you have done.

It depends on the programme you choose. More generally, we believe that the environment and the atmosphere of the place where happen the lessons are important for a more immersive experience as well as for the memorization of the new learnings!

For the FrenchBooster Program, the French lessons usually take place in a art gallery ideally located in Paris and well adapted to our classes.

For Frenchup courses or bespoke French classes, we adapt first to your availabilities and context (at the office or at home). We also selected some quite and very Parisian cafés to learn in a more relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. It's also a great opportunity for you to discover some good spots in Paris. 😉

We also offer French lessons in Parisian museums. Just ask our team for it!

Our Face-to-face or online French classes are a minimum 1-hour long. For French classes over the phone, the usual duration of a class is 30mn. Our students usually prefer to have a 1h30 French lesson to have time to discover new concepts and practice as much as possible.

We adapt first to your availabilities and context (at the office or at home). We also selected some quite and very Parisian cafés to learn in a more relaxed and inspiring atmosphere. It's also a great opportunity for you to discover some good spots in Paris. 😉

We also offer French lessons in Parisian museums. Just ask our team for it!

French classes at a museum offer the opportunity to practice French through the observation and interpretation of art works. History, philosophy, art, society : theses immersive sessions will help you to bring your French to the next level and learn a lot about French culture.

You can incorporate sessions at a museum in your French learning programme. Fabienne, our teaching team leader, is passionate and knowledgeable about French art and will love to be your teacher for these sessions. Feel free to talk about it to your dedicated teacher or directly contact Fabienne for this!

Drink some water and have a good rest 😉! Your dedicated teacher will welcome and guide you as soon as your first lesson begins!

We're open all year long. We provide French classes from Monday to Saturdays. Our customer services team is available from Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 7:00pm.

Yes and in addition, they are awesome and very friendly! That's why we onboarded them in our teaching team as we love to work in a great and relax atmosphere 😊!

They are qualified, experienced and can boast their great interpersonal skills (sense of humour, patience, caring...). They all share our vision of teaching and love the Novexpat's pedagogy. They make it even richer with their own teaching style and techniques.

Indeed, great teachers and great students (😉!) make an outstanding French learning experience!

Novexpat is an authorized training school compliant with the underlying French laws. Our registration number is 11 75 575 0375. If you live in France and work in a France-based company or are registered at Pôle Emploi, you might be then able to ask for French OPCO subsidies to obtain a partial or total funding of your French lessons (In any case, lessons will be paid by you or your company in the first place)

We do! We are registered in the Datadock. So, our French classes offer is validated by the OPCO. As a consequence, you may be able to ask your OPCO for a financial help to finance your French classes. You can use the NAF code written on your salary slip to find out which OPCO you depend on.
We are currently involved in the Qualiopi Certification process.

First of all, why did you not succeed? Were classes too overcrowded to enable you to intensively practice? Were topics too abstract and disincentive to make you feel really involved? Was the pedagogical approach too theoric and you could not understand how to really practice it in situation?

Unfortunately, all these situations can block the learning process and make you lose confidence in your abilities to learn and progress. The good news is, it does not have to be that way!

So it's definitely worth trying with a new method which builds on your strengths and experience and help you step by step to go further! You'll then realize soon that you do are able to learn French and feel more confident about it, whatever your previous learning experiences!

When learning a foreign language, it's unfortunately usual to feel like our progress slows down and to reach a kind of plateau. You have a wide range of vocabulary and sentence structures, you make few mistakes but you keep communicating in the same way as you were used to before.

This step is natural as we all have a kind of lazy brain. It likes to go for the simplest and reuse what it already knows.

This is then the right time to keep getting exposed to new structures and idioms, to memorize them and, above all, to practice, again and again. The Novexpat's pedagogy and Neo], our online learning platform, are designed to support and stimulate you in your effort!

Check out our events page as we schedule from time to time a specific free workshop dedicated to this question!

From your memory to your lips, the way can be long. The more you practice you French, the more the words will come naturally. So before being afraid of what the person you're speaking to is thinking about your flow, be first patient with yourself 😉.

Moreover, methods like the intensive practice, the association between the new and the already-known, the use of flashcards... can help you to train that two-way communication between your memory and your flow.

Indeed, French people speak fast... However, the main issus is usually the rhythm and the linking between words. The French do not stress every single word (as in the majority of the other languages), but a whole sentence. So, when we pronounce a sentence, you can hear it like a single word! You have to expose your ears to this new phenomenon! Our pedagogy can help you to get used to it as soon as the very first lessons!

This gap is usually due to the rhythme and the “melody” of your French.

You may have already noticed a French speaking English without stressing any words but only accentuating the end of his sentences. That makes him very difficult to understand. In the same way, French people have difficulty to understand someone who cuts his sentence, stressing every single word of it.

Luckily, this issue can be easily tackled in our private 1-on-1 French classes.

We know how frustrating it can be! You may have the feeling you cannot share with accuracy, your ideas, opinions or knowledge. You can find the words to say what you do think. Of course, this difficulty fades away as you learn more French vocabulary and sentence structures. We have been designing French learning programmes and material according to the usual Parisian areas of interest to help you to feel more at ease and relevant in French. Our teachers are able to adapt the contents of your lessons to your social context and to your interests for a more active participation in your daily conversations.