Online Language Courses

Become fluent in FRENCH or ENGLISH.
Enjoy one to one private language classes online.
Improve fluency through live conversation, reading, listening and written activities.
Learn quickly through a personalized teaching.

FREE TRIAL LESSON

Af-academie is based on professional experience and aims at improving language skills in a creative and personalized way.

Why Learning At Af-Academie?

EASY AND SIMPLE TOOLS

The classes take place via Zoom.com. It is an easy and reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing.

FITTED TO YOUR NEEDS

Every learner understands, perceives and gains knowledge differently. Different methods for different people. This is Af-academie’s objective: to find out which method is the best fit for you.

Based on your own life context and self-motivation, these methods help you make you more aware of your needs, in accordance with the goal set in the target language.

My task is to give you the right tools and to show you the means to develop the conditions to succeed in your learning process.

OUR EXPERTISE AT YOUR SERVICE, ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

Schedule classes when you want, where you want.

Which language courses?

Conversation language

Conversation language refers to context-bound,
face-to-face communication, like the language
first learned by toddlers and preschoolers,
which is used in everyday interaction.
Conversation language includes situations such as:

introducing yourself
talking about your profession, hobbies, future plans
interacting with the public sector
getting by everyday life

Academic language

Academic language refers to the abstract, decontextualized
communication that takes place in the classroom. It is
‘the language of learning’, which enables us to problem-solve,
to hypothesize, to imagine, to reason and project in situations where
we lack personal experience.
Academic language includes situations such as:

writing a standardized text
demonstrating experiments
listening to a lecture
reading content class

Academic language

Academic language refers to the abstract, decontextualized
communication that takes place in the classroom. It is
‘the language of learning’, which enables us to problem-solve,
hypothesize, imagine, reason and project into situations which
they have no personal experience.
Academic language includes situations such as:

writing a standardized text
demonstrating experiments
listening to a lecture
reading content class

Business language

For some people, business language focuses on
vocabulary and topics used in the worlds of business,
trade, finance, and international relations. For others,
it refers to the communication skills used in the
workplace and focuses on the language and skills
needed for typical business communication such as:

- presentations
- negotiations
- meetings
- correspondence
- report writing

A little bit about me...

You may ask yourself who I am
and what I can offer you.

It’s very simple: languages are one of my passions;
I never get bored when I learn languages. Besides
loving it, I get a lot of opportunities to get to know
other cultures, new people and interesting places.

My wish is to be able to share this interest with you
and my greatest reward is to see you developing
your language skills.

Know more

But you might want to know a little bit more about my experience as a teacher.

So here it goes:

After doing my primary and secondary studies in Sacré-Coeur de Lindthout School in Brussels, I did a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Spanish at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge. After that, I went to Granada in Spain as an Erasmus student to improve my Spanish and took a course of History and Art History at Granada University. I very much liked it and decided to stay for a longer period. I started teaching English and French to children and adults in an academy and after 2 years I enrolled for the DAEFLE and the TEFL course in Granada.

My working experience in Granada expands over 9 years. I had the opportunity to teach different ages (children, teenagers and adults) through a variety of teaching modules: standard classes, preparations to Cambridge exams and Trinity, language courses in companies, and so on. During the summer, I was working as a coordinator in a camp that combined English classes and sport activities for 200 children, aged from 6 to 17 years old. Besides teaching, my task was to recruit, inform and oversee the other teachers and to develop new visual resources that could promote the use of English outside the English activities.

After spending 4 years in Cambridge and 9 years in Granada, I went back to Belgium and sought to increase my experience abroad in my native country. I worked in Brussels for 6 years where I was combining my teaching time between companies, language schools and private students. And after 6 years, my partner who is Slovak and I decided to try our luck in Bratislava. This is when came to me the idea of starting some teaching online. The first reason was that I wanted to keep contact with my students in Brussels and the second was that for a long time I’d been wanted to start my own language school. This was the perfect opportunity to make it happen! So welcome to Af-academie!

I hope with these few lines I’ve been able to inspire you and who knows to even go for a ‘free trial lesson’.

I look forwards to hearing from you,

Aurore Francq.

Testimonials

Edina from Hungary, 45 years old

Aurore taught English to our three kids (7, 10, 11). She tailored the lessons to their needs, personalities and ages and was always well prepared. She is friendly and rigorous at the same time. After an academic year of 45 minute lessons every week, my oldest son, who was a complete beginner, was able to have basic conversations in English.

Reza from the USA, 36 years old

I did a 3 week French intensive course of 60 hours with Aurore. She was always well-prepared. I also really appreciated that she asked me what I needed to work on and then tailored the lessons to my needs. From the start I knew the course would be challenging yet fun. At the end of the course, my speaking-listening skills improved from basic topics to particular society-based issues.

Peter from Austria, 40 years old

I did a one year academic course with Aurore, every week for 90 minutes. She figured out how I learn best and how to keep me challenged and motivated at the same time. She tracked my progress and was very understanding when I had an occasional bad day, lacked motivation or came to class unprepared. Her positive spirit and attitude made me love learning French. I went from being a total beginner to being able to communicate in simple situations and exchange information on simple and routine matters.

How does it work?

1.- Define your goal

I want to:

- - reactivate passive knowledge.
  - overcome the fear of speaking.
  - develop fluency and oral spontaneity.
  - enrich vocabulary.
  - improve pronunciation.
  - enhance listening comprehension.
  - master idioms.