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    EF Language Year Abroad – Paris, France

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    Details

    • Listing Type: Gap Year Programs
    • Program Delivery: Residential
    • Destinations: France
    • Credit Awarded: College
    • Program Length: Academic Year, Semester, Quarter
    • Start Month: January, April, June, September, November
    • Category: Language
    • Selective: No
    • Gender: Coed
    • Ages: 16, 17, 18, 19+, 19
    • Housing: Dorm, Homestay, Student Apartment
    • Affiliation: Gap Year Association
    • Financial Aid: Grants/Scholarships, Payment Terms
    • Minimum Cost: $10,000 - $20,000
    • Call: (800) 992-1892
    • Last Updated:July 2025
    • Meeting: Schedule a Meeting
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    Overview

    Learn French in Paris?with EF Language Year Abroad and turn the City of Light into your classroom. Perfect your language skills and study academic subjects in your areas of interest, returning home with language credentials, friends from around the world and memories to last a lifetime.

    THE ULTIMATE STUDY ABROAD EXPERIENCE

    True fluency through immersion - Spend 2, 3 or 4 academic terms (6–11 months), gaining language and cultural fluency, learning from local experiences, and peers from over 100 nations. Study on EF’s modern yet traditional campus near the Latin Quarter, personalize your schedule with SPIN electives—from French gastronomy to fashion—and advance faster through project sessions and real?life language labs.?Make the most of your gap year with cultural excursions to the Louvre, Versailles, Champagne country, and more. Live with a Parisian host family or in a student residence, earn an official EF?fluency certificate, and complete a résumé?ready capstone project. Join students from 100+ countries, build global connections, and leave Paris speaking confident French and carrying memories that last a lifetime.

    Earn transferable college credit through our partner in education, The University of Montana.

    PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:

    • Distinguished Quality: EF France was awarded the Le Label Qualité Français Langue Étrangère (French Foreign Language Quality label)
    • Elegant Parisian Campus: Stately school adorned with terraces in the trendy 9th arrondissement. Recently renovated to blend modern technology with classic architecture
    • Top activities include Normandy, Disneyland Paris, and Versailles
    • Study topics that align with your career or passions.
    • Enhance your CV to succeed as a global citizen.
    • Flexible start dates in January, September, April, & June.

    The US-based Admissions Team will help you choose the perfect destination and program for your goals - To learn more and sign up, be sure to check out our website!

    Cost and Session Information

    What's included in the price?

    • Twenty Two weeks of the EF Intensive course.
    • Stay in a twin room in a carefully-selected EF Homestay.
    • Enjoy breakfast and dinner Monday to Friday and all meals on weekends.
    • Make memories with an action-packed activity schedule, led by EF Activities Managers.
    • Benefit from the EF Diploma and EF Academic Record.
    • Get access to EF Digital Learning Media to enhance your studies.
    • Airport pickup at your destination

    Your Chance to Experience More

    Upgrade to a private room from $375/week in an EF Residence. Book excursions to Disneyland Paris, Normandy, Nice & more. Visit the Eiffel Tower and Museum Carnavalet, take guided museum and city tours & more. Enjoy EF tours, parties, sports, and an unforgettable graduation party.

    Testimonials(1)

    • Any time that I think about travelling I think of EF. I used to see the world as an impenetrable thing, far beyond my reach. EF has shown me that overseas travel is not only affordable, but also easy, and dare I say so much fun! While away from home it is really important to feel that you are still part of a safe community that will be there for you should any problems arise. The staff, both abroad and at home, are fantastic, understanding of the travails of travel, studying a new culture and language and are always ready to help and guide. At EF travel dreams, are realities. Bon voyage mes amis!

      - Lia Gowland - August 20, 2016