The ideal way to discover France and its people is to live with a local family and to share its way of life. Even if your French is limited, chatting at the family dinner table remains one of the best ways of improving your comprehension and vocabulary. Also, you discover the French mentality and of course, the famous French cuisine. We know that a host family plays a very important role in making your stay a success. Consequently, we very carefully select families to ensure that you have a warm welcome. We regularly visit our host families and it is their warm and caring nature which helps to contribute to the good reputation of CLE. What do you call a family ? It could be a couple with teenagers, a couple with young children, a couple where the children are no longer living at home, or perhaps a lady in her late fifties or sixties, living on her own. If you choose to stay with a host family, we will ask you which type of family you would prefer. We do everything possible to find a family that matches up to your requirements so that your stay will be comfortable.

Such families typically live in the center of Tours and usually in a residential area only a short distance away. Families generally accept one or two students, but always with different mother tongues. You will be provided with a private bedroom and a private or shared bathroom.

Staying with a family starts on the Sunday before your course begins and finishes on the Saturday after the course has finished. Before you leave home, you will be sent the address, telephone number and e-mail address of the family you are staying with who will meet you when you arrive at Tours railway station if coming by train, or at Tours airport if you are coming from London or Dublin by plane.

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