In France, I have some privileges to take free language courses - thanks to Mr. President. It's a new law which applied a few years ago, that all long- term residents in the country must have certain level of language skills in writing and speaking - otherwise, the country provides them some free lessons.
It's for foreigners who have French spouses and legal immigrants. There are several processes to take to get this benefit but to simplify - it's provided by the local ANAEM after you apply for a residency permit (Carte de séjour) . They'd give you maximum of 400hours at a nearest education centre depending on your level of the language. The ANAEM is the public service for foreigners who helps them integrate in the country. They have several one-day sessions to teach you the history of France and the civil rights and so on (providing free delicious lunch).
Last January, I took the course for 400 hours and then took the French DILF (the most basic one)exam at the end of the course. You'd get mingled with so many different nationalities, age groups and educational levels (sometimes there were people who couldn't write) there are pros and cons in that particular school I went but all in all, I don't complain - because it's absolutely FREE of charge. If you have to go to the private school - you'd expect to spend quite a fortune.
Now, I started a new course last week, which is done by ANPE (The French equivalence of JobCentre) - it's part of the skill training that will run over 10 weeks. They'd asked you for committment for the course, as they won't let us skiving off. Compared to the previous course by ANAEM, this one is for adults who're looking for work - so the course covers more practical bits as well as very basic stuff that you'd always need to recap which is handy for me.
Hopefully I'd get the most out of it.
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