Cours de civilisation française de la Sorbonne Reviews 384

DO NOT ATTEND THIS SCHOOL! I have been waiting on my refund for over 3 months. They are now ghosting me after stating my refund was one the way—no by-when, nothing. Gave sensitive banking information to obtain my refund (as they requested was the only way) 3x via email exposing me to fraud. The ministry of education won’t get back to me either, a complete joke. This school is a SCAM! I will continue to escalate until I receive my funds. I’m not even attending the school anymore and my refund request was within their so-called request window. This schools incompetence has strained my finances and has prevented me from accessing these necessary funds to go to school elsewhere. This school is not reputable at all, AVOID

It is impossible to get any information from the staff about the courses. The staff have given me unclear information about the level required, it was impossible to get a straight answer even after 10 emails and all answers were curt and uninformative, as if it is a bother to even give answers. Furthermore it was impossible to receive an answer about what time the course takes place daily, the closest answer I got was that it happens “sometime between 10 and 17h” which probably means they don’t know either. All in all terrible communication and a waste of time, but if this is how they treat potential students then the level of instruction is probably not much better.

I love the environment of tye School, its so beautiful like we are in the university.
I love my classmates they are so young and fresh, I feel like want to study more and more.
Our Teacher Alain is one of the best Teacher, he is so patient, he has very deep knowledge for grammars. He is very serious for Teaching, he handed write all the study tools for us. I has a huge improvement with him.
Its a such unforgettable experience learning French in Sorbonne.
I will continue my course for next level.

One suggestion: If we can use our CPF account will be fantastic for the people who lives in France wants to study in Sorbonne.

The don't answer emails or calls and tell you your course is cancelled 2 days before it starts.

In my experience, I was lucky to have 2 good teachers in both B1 and B2. However, it is very grammar based and there are large number of students. Hence very limited chance to speak or improve on the speaking. The problem is always with the administration. That's why I am giving 3 three stars. The seniors can be rude. But their new hires are trying to be nicer. I hope they continue be nice and not follow their seniors.

I signed up for the intensive classes in July and August and ended up having a very polarizing experience between the two sessions. July was a dream. I really was impressed by my teacher and group of students. I felt like the approach to the material felt very natural and was challenging as well. However, less than a week before the August session I was informed by the school that there weren't enough students and the intensive class was cancelled. I promptly signed up for a private tutor to suppliment the hours I would lose with going down to general french class. Friday before the new session started the school informed me that the intensive class was back on. I asked to stay in general french since I had already gotten a tutor and received a rude message back question how I changed my plans so quickly and telling me it was not possible for me to stay in general french and get my refund for the difference. This was frustrating since the school had cancelled the class less then a week before the new session and then brought it back again but I agreed. On my first day of my second session I realized there were only going to be two students, myself and another woman, so the school had been dishonest when they said they were cancelling intensive french because not enough students had signed up. Then the teacher we had for grammar was quite offensive. She yelled at us constantly and created an extremely hostile environment. This was so bad that the other student left after the first day because the teacher had made racist comments to her. The second day three new students joined and the teacher had me teach them what I had learned day one. For the third day she was out sick and our class was sent home. The fourth day she was sick again and the school placed our class in another class that was too advanced and working on material we had never seen. When I reached out again to the administration about how awful my experience was I received very delayed responses and was finally told I could join another class two weeks into the program that was only four weeks. I said that this was not a good option for me at this point since we were too far into the session and asked to just get a credit for future classes. I was told absolutely not. I was really surprised and disappointed that an institution with a reputation like Sorbonne's, who had provided such a wonderful experience in July, gave me no options, listened to none of my considers, and provided a half baked solution far too late. I unfortunately would never return to this school and would recommend that students avoid signing up for the August session. As someone who worked hard and paid for her tuition and living expenses while in Paris, this education felt like throwing my money away for nothing.

Great course, needs a lot of personal initiative to make the most of it.

I am Naira Madoyan from Armenia.
I am very pleased with your work. You do your job with great love and very conscientiously.

I had very high expectations for this course but, sadly, it was completely disappointing.
Lacking structure, the lessons felt mostly improvised. And even though a placement test was given before starting, they ended up mixing up all levels together, from complete beginners to advanced students, which made for an unproductive learning experience.
After two weeks hoping it would get better, I decided to drop out and asked for a refund. I’m still waiting to get my money back.
Overall, CCFS is an overpriced, poorly managed course that leaves a lot to be desired.

It is easy to navigate the website and find what you need. The enrolment process itself is simple and stress-free.

I felt lost with the communication. If the response a bit quickly it would be great.

It’s been a month full of progress for me ( grammatically )! The teachers are very professional but i hope we can improve our (langue parler) because there’s no time for conversations in the class :/

It has been excellent experience for the phonetic and the grammar with very detailed explanation to all the subjects
But i felt like we want more to speak because we are bad in speaking and we don’t speak or talk during the class just a little

Thank you

The secretary who helped me change classes didn't do her job well. Before the start of the new semester, I had already written a email to inform the secretary that because I have a part-time job, I wanted to have the class at 8:00 in the morning. She also replied that she would try her best to range the time I wanted . At the time I didn't even know that the B1 level was divided into two levels, b1.1 and b1.2. A few days after , I received my schedule started at 1:00 pm. If I want to change classes, I have to go to the school to fill the form to change class. When I went to the office, I asked some secretaries if there is class started at 8:00 in the morning for the b1 course and no one can answer my question. On 5 octobre , the secretary helped me change to the b1 class at 8 am . When I took the course at that day, the teacher said that it was a b1.2 level and it would be hard for me and she asked me to the office change the class again. And then I realized B1 level divide into b1.1and b1.2. And no anyone explained this situation, so I might could be change to the b1.1 course on morning 9 am . After that , When I went to the secretary office to change classes again, the secretary answered me: “Our B1.1 classes most of them were full and there were no b1.1 course started at 8 am, except for the course from 10 am in the morning to 2pm were available . Otherwise, you tried your best to understand the lesson and get to b1.2. ” what a irresponsible reply! I finally chose the class starting at 10 am, and the secretary told me that if I think this class is ok, please reply her email and she will change my class. The day afternoon I replied to the email, and I never received a reply from her . A week later, I went to the secretary's office to confirm that if I had changed my class . Another secretary checked my information and I was still in the same class! The secretary didn't change my class . And the chief of the secretary replied to me that I couldn’t change the class anymore because b1.1.2 was full. I was very shocked and stunned. Later, another secretary who can speak chinese helped me explain my hard situation and finally ,I change my class successfully . I would not recommend this unreliable and irresponsible school to anyone who wants to learn French. Even though some of teachers in the school are very good. But I have to say that the quality of teachers hired by the school is unevenly. In my class, we changed teachers. Our first teacher's teaching method is really not suitable for students who want to take the DELF test.
I have been here to study French from A1-A2 ,already 1 year, according to the good experience at first year, that’s why I chose CCFS ,but I can’t not believe that this semester is totally a disaster for me . We have to change our class room often because of the room is for DELF test ! and it take time to go to another campus , it is really annoying and waste our time.

I think that the courses are good, however, I will say that there are a huge difference between levels and that its very hard for students to know which is there level. In addition, the test is not very accurate. Also, I think that all teachers should use the same methodology and that should explain deeper the canjugaison of the verbs. It will be nice if the University could organize more acitvities so that all the people of the CCFS meet.

Also, the building its beautiful but there is no hand washing on the bathrooms and they are always dirty.

Everyone has been very helpful

I have a wonderful teachers, excellent place, but I had an inconvenience with the University we signed up for the extensive course, (1month) and one day before class star they did no have enough students, so is big ideal moving to Paris, rent an apartment and stay there just to have 2 hrs class a day.
So make sure when you signed up, the offer the course is appropriate for the expenses an the time you are going to be there.

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