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Experience: 6 months studying French & enjoying Biarritz
6 months in Biarritz: a truly remarkable experience
We are very often fortunate to welcome inspiring and inspired students in our school. Some of them sometimes want to share the remarkable time they had in Biarritz.
Last year, Emma gave us this wonderful gift after her visit to our school.
This year 2019, it is Mikko and Martin who decided to film the experience Martin had while with us. Martin comes from Germany. He is a professional sommelier whose family have been working in the wine industry for more than 130 years.
If you want to improve your French for professional or personal reasons, we are here to support you and help you achieve your goals!
Learning French Grammar
French grammar can be fun to learn!
To learn French, you can seat at your table writing sentences and completing written exercises.
You can also join our school and learn French while speaking (still writing a little though) and … why not drawing? Working together, students can be inspired and make a great team work; thinking and communicating in French, trying to reuse what they learned…
What about this beautiful team work made by 6 of our students? 🙂
Beach clean up !
Keep our beaches clean!
First week of October, we gathered all together after our French lesson and headed to the beach for a good beach clean up!
We were nicely surprised to find a beach free of large garbage stuff. We had plenty to do with very small plastic parts though amongst which too many lollipops sticks and straws…
2 hours later, with 4 garbage bags full of plastic bits we can feel useful and happy to have contributed to maintaining our beach clean!
Merci à tous!
Bienvenue chez SOFI 64
One of our students made a beautiful short movie about her French experience here at SOFI 64.
She studied French with us for 4 weeks and at the end of her stay offered us this amazing present.
Thank you Emma! You did a great job with this movie and with your French! We are very happy you enjoyed your stay with us! 🙂
Travelling around France
How to travel around France
If you ever wondered about transportation and how to travel while you will be in France, well, we have great tips for you! Just read one of our students’ article! Bionca wrote a very instructive article about her personal experience with travelling France during November 2016. She reviewed 3 different ways to get where you need to go to and gives you every detail you need to know:
We hihgly recommend this article to anyone who needs help choosing a way of transportation for their French journey.
Follow the guide —>Tips to travel around France
SOFI 64 Reviewed by Bionca, former student
Review of our French Language School by a Former Student
As you may already know, we love teaching French.
Here at SOFI 64, we do our best to make your experience unforgettable and worthy.
And when students reward us with reviews like this one, we are overjoyed. It motivates us to keep doing even more and keep students happy with their French experience!
https://waywardessence.com/review-sofi-64-french-language-institute/
Do accents in French really change anything?!
The answer is YES!
How many times did you write a word without any accent because you didn’t know where to put them? How many times did you write an accent between two letters hoping that it would just fit in?
Well, fear no more!
Today, we will explain the “accent aigu” (the acute accent). Be ready.
First of all, you can only find it on the letter “e” and it changes the pronunciation to “ay “.
Usually, this accent is placed on the “e” when this one is the first letter of a word:
- Une écharpe, un éclair, une énergie, un équilibre
You will also find an “é ” at the end of a word, when it is the last letter (even when plural or feminine):
- La spiritualité , un canapé , un cliché , un fiancé , une fiancée , le marié , la mariée , les mariés
When the word starts with dé – , mé – or pré – don’t forget to add “l’accent aigu” !
- Un début, un départ, un mélange, la méditation, un préavis, un présent
Write this accent above the “e” when it is before a syllable without a silent “e” (!):
- un aéroport, concrétiser, un numéro, expédier, une spécialisation
At last, there is always an “accent aigu” at the past tense for the verbs usually ending with “er” : allé , parlé , marché , mangé , fermé
On the other hand, you will never see an accent on the “e”:
- when followed by the letters -d, -f, -r or a -t at the end of a word : une clef, un cahier, un trépied, un perroquet
- when before an “x”: un exercice, un exemple, une excellente idée, un index, une expédition
- when before a double letter: une chaussette, des lunettes, une erreur, un ennemi, essuyer
- when before -rc , -rb, -rp, -rv : un exercice, un serpent, une réservation, un verbe, un réverbère
Bon d’accord, this is a lot to remember! Just try practising your “accent aigu” using our exercices below!
To write “é ” using your keyboard:
PC: Alt + 130 or 0233
Mac: Press option and type “e”. Release both keys and type “e”.
How to visit Biarritz and be eco-friendly with SOFI 64 !
Here at SOFI 64, we are not just another French language school. We love nature and enjoy outdoors activities. We live by and for the sea, we surf, we hike and… we bike!
That is the reason why, each Monday, our newly arrived students can visit both Biarritz and Anglet equipped with a wonderful electric bike!
Starting from school, at 2:00pm, you will discover the city and its beautiful beaches without any efforts and without polluting.
Ready? Set? Go!!
Note: All our students beneficiate from a 20% discount on any rentals and guided tours from our Partner with our special code. Contact us to get it!