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PROS
I took courses with four different instructors and two of them were really engaged in providing an interesting learning experience. They would not limit the class to the content prepared by the Immigration, Franscisation et Intégration, bringing lots of extra material, including songs, articles and videos about history, news, curiosities and culture. They would also correct our pronunciation and try to make us improve.

CONS
Two of the instructors would just present the theory and ask us to do written exercises and read it out loud. Very boring.

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If you are lucky to get a got instructor you will learn and have a good time.

PROS
Free Francisation course funded by Quebec’s immigration branch; The school is basic, but it accomplishes its function; I found fun to be in it with a diverse range of ages, countries of origin and paths of life; Contents and pathway well thought and good balance among writing, reading, grammar and conversation; Both the school and the program present you with the language and cultural aspects of Quebec; The administration was very present and willing to help, and the staff was friendly.

CONS
The school was a bit messy with handling registration and student records, it looked like it missed attention to detail. Some teachers were vary basic with not much will to adapt to the class for better learning. On the first half of my training, the installations were very poor, but the school improved a lot by moving to a nicer building nearby in the subsequent year.

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Teacher Bernard was great! Very strict, sounding sometimes a bit aggressive, but his intentions were the best, promoting Quebec in several aspects with activities and subjects out of the original program. We learned QC’s geography, history, economy, landmarks apart from solely the language, with several songs, films, poetry, readings, presentations (we had todo!) and life stories. I am happy to have studied with this teacher and that I’ve learned more than what was on the grammar, and learned to value the Quebecer’s culture.