Intensive language courses
Intensive introductory courses level 1.1 (absolute beginner) and level 1.2 (false beginner)
Continuing Education offers you the chance to take part in a 30-hour intensive course spread over a full week in person or over 5 consecutive weekends in distance learning.
Initiate yourself in one of our available oriental languages* with our qualified and experienced teachers.
*Literal Arabic, Chinese, written Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Czech, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, or any other language taught in initial training at Inalco subject to a minimum number of trainees).
Come discover or rediscover the language of your choice by choosing your level:
- Level 1.1: no language level is required (absolute beginner level)
- Level 1.2: have followed the Level 1 course.1 or 30 hours of lessons in the requested language (false beginner level)
After each course, trainees receive a certificate of completion.
PLEASE NOTE: The intensive course is demanding in terms of personal work. You need to take into account the number of hours of training plus the home work involved (for a 30-hour course, allow 10 to 20 hours of additional personal work).
Next sessions
In presential, from January 20 to 24, 2025 from 10am to 5pm, i.e. 6 hours a day on site at Inalco.
In distanciel, from January 10 to February 8, 2025, Fridays from 6pm to 8:30pm and Saturdays from 9:30am to 1pm on Zoom.
Registrations
Registrations will take place from November 12 to December 8, 2024.
The intensive courses are eligible for CPF in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian.
The intensive courses are not eligible for Pôle Emploi or OPCO funding.
Objectives
Objectives
- Master the basics to use the language in everyday and professional situations
- Acquire the basic mechanisms of the language
- Be able to communicate orally, on a daily basis
- Rapidly reach an operational level in a minimum of time
- Communicate in simple everyday situations, to be autonomous
Program
Program
The 30-hour introductory course (level 1.1)
This course is essentially focused on oral practice through simulations and role-play.
In languages where this is possible, a few hours will be devoted to learning the alphabet to be able to read directly and use supports without going through sometimes complex transcription systems.
During this great beginner level course, trainees will be placed in the simplest situations of everyday conversation enabling the acquisition of survival vocabulary and simple structures for minimum everyday communication.
Phonetics : improve pronunciation, transition to writing, accent and intonation, some basic phonetic rules.
Language practice : the use, mainly in dialogues, of vocabulary and locutions relating to the following areas:
- human beings, belonging and identification (nationality, profession),
- positioning in space (city, country, travel),
- family, working life, leisure,
- numbers, numbers and time,
- description of family, friends, introducing oneself, thanking, welcoming.
The 30-hour introductory course (level 1.2)
This course, at level faux-débutant, supplements the skills acquired in level 1 and helps develop vocabulary, improve pronunciation, introduce writing and tackle more complex syntactic structures (relatives, complements, negative, affirmative and interrogative forms, etc.) through simulations and role-playing.
Trainees are placed in everyday conversational situations to enrich the basic structures and vocabulary acquired during the Level 1 course.
Phonetics: improve fluency of pronunciation, accent and intonation, the main phonetic rules.
Language practice: at the end of this course, trainees are able to express themselves orally in more complex everyday situations:
- express will, wish, opinion,
- justify a point of view or opinion,
- ask for directions, place an order in a restaurant, go shopping, make a phone call, send an email, book a hotel room, etc.
ATTENTION IN JAPANESE to follow the Level 1.2 course, you must be able to read and write in hiragana and katakana.
Rates
Rates
- Fee: 780 euros (paid for by a funding body: employer, OPCO)*
- Individual fee: 390 euros
* All requests for quotes must be made six weeks before the start of the training course.
Formule stage intensif niveau 1.1 à distance (40.5 KB, .pdf)
Formule stage intensif niveau 1.2 à distance (39.93 KB, .pdf)
Formule stage intensif niveau 1.1 présentiel (39.85 KB, .pdf)
Formule stage intensif niveau 1.2 présentiel (39.61 KB, .pdf)
Formule stage intensif chinois écrit 2024-2025 (38.91 KB, .pdf)
Calendar
Find the intensive courses calendar below.
CALENDRIER STAGE INTENSIF 24-25 (96.56 KB, .pdf)