The Alliance Française de Londres is an educational charity dedicated to teaching the French language. Our native French teachers are fully qualified and commited to providing a high standard tuition that takes you through a structured syllabus from beginner to fluent.
The Alliance Française de Londres gives you a truly authentic French experience, the next best thing to actually going to a French-speaking country. We are all here because we want to be: We believe in the Alliance française. We love teaching and we love London and the great variety of people living or working here or just passing through. We are committed and enthusiastic sharers of French language and culture and we welcome everyone.
The Alliance Française unites the global and the local; strengthened by an international network we also strive to integrate in London by taking part in local community life. We are great believers in cultural exchange to our mutual enrichment and that dialogue starts right here in the Alliance de Londres. As an apolitical and non-denominational organisation the Alliance was a pioneer in multicultural teaching. We are truly broad-based and inclusive.
To learn French is to enrich your relations with French speakers, to appreciate and participate more fully in a distinctive culture. Learning another language does broaden the mind, potentially increasing tolerance and deepening understanding, of one's own language and culture as well as the newly-studied language. Learning French will provide opportunities for mutuality and exchange in 55 countries (see “About French”) that are not possible without knowing the language. There is no better summary of the Alliance Française mission than
« Nous avons, une fois pour toutes, tiré cette conclusion que c’est par de libres rapports spirituels et moraux, établis entre nous-mêmes et les autres, que notre influence culturelle peut s’étendre à l’avantage de tous et qu’inversement peut s’accroître ce que nous valons. Organiser ces rapports, telle fut la raison de naître, telle est la raison de vivre, telle sera la raison de poursuivre de l’Alliance française. »
Charles de Gaulle
(from his speech in Algiers on 30th October 1943 for the 60th anniversary of the Alliance Française movement) |
