The Paris of North America

Why take a French trip to Montréal?

The immersion experience accelerates learning.

Pedagogically speaking, unless students become interested in the people and culture of the French speaking world on some level, they will not stay interested in the language in the long run. Students on our trips quickly learn that they understand French spoken in the real world, and that the native francophone residents can understand them. They also realize that French is a useful a useful tool, even in North America, and not just an academic exercise.

We humbly assert that students learn more during a three or four or five day educational trip to Montréal, (the second largest French-speaking city in the world), with its juxtaposition of centuries-old stone buildings and contemporary office towers is, on many levels, a city unique in this hemisphere. than in any other three to five days of the school year. 

French trips boost enrollment in French programs.
As a practical matter, our clients, dozens and dozens of them, tell us that their French educational tours to Montréal, (the second largest French-speaking city in the world), with its juxtaposition of centuries-old stone buildings and contemporary office towers is, on many levels, a city unique in this hemisphere.are a large part of why enrollments in their French classes are stable or expanding, notwithstanding trends in neighboring schools. Their students love these trips, return to their homes talking about them, their younger friends and siblings hear about them and enroll in French, among other reasons, because they want to go on them too.

We have been told over and over by adults, sometimes the parents of kids on our trips, that they still remember their own French student trips to Montréal, (the second largest French-speaking city in the world), with its juxtaposition of centuries-old stone buildings and contemporary office towers is, on many levels, a city unique in this hemisphere.. And now, some of our clients are French teachers who learned about us as students on their trips to Montréal, (the second largest French-speaking city in the world), with its juxtaposition of centuries-old stone buildings and contemporary office towers is, on many levels, a city unique in this hemisphere. in middle or high school (it always warms our hearts to hear this)!

Educational travel strengthens student-teacher bonds.

Finally, our educational tours to Montréal, (the second largest French-speaking city in the world), with its juxtaposition of centuries-old stone buildings and contemporary office towers is, on many levels, a city unique in this hemisphere. are a wonderful opportunity for the teachers to bond with their students. Who doesn’t remember a favorite teacher or two, in high school or college, whom you always wanted to please and impress, and never wanted to disappoint? The teachers who lead are trips tend to be the most popular in their schools, they like kids, kids like them, and that’s a relationship that not only allows but encourages learning.