If you want to learn or improve French, look through the latest Parisian press or watch the latest news from TV5, read a new novel by your favorite French writer in the original, watch a DVD film with your favorite actor or listen to a fashion group’s CD and, as a result, learn and understand better than France lives at the beginning of the 21st century, then all this can be achieved with the help of the Center, which is part of an extensive network of similar cultural institutions that France has opened around the world: the Comedie Française and the Zingaro Equestrian Theater.
The French cultural club helps creative people from the two countries of France and Russia find each other, share the joy and risk of joint searches, joint journeys into the unknown, and the results of these journeys become known to the widest possible public.
The French Cultural Center in Moscow is subordinate to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Russia.
French courses
On the basis of the French Cultural Club there are French language courses, upon completion of which a special diploma is issued. The club offers 9 types of different courses for any purpose: French for travelers, medical French, general French for adults, teenagers and children, conversational French, business French, as well as improvement and preparation for DELF-DALF exams.
Media library
If you prefer to get to know France via the Internet or with the help of new technologies, then come to the media library of the French Cultural Center in Moscow. This is a modern library containing printed publications, audiovisual and electronic materials, and also offers direct access not only to books and periodicals, but also to CDs, DVDs, CD-ROMs and Internet information sources.
Here you can find publications about France in Russian and about Russia in French.
Today there are many places in Moscow where you can learn foreign languages in an informal setting, get acquainted with the cultures of different countries, and spend time interestingly and usefully.
However, many of these sites are paid, and not everyone can afford to visit them. Visiting such places turns out to be problematic, for example, for schoolchildren and students.
IFL student Valeria Minkova decided to find places and events to study and practice the French language that would not interfere with the educational process, would leave free time for relaxation and would not require large financial expenditures.
She has prepared an overview of the most popular and convenient places where students can learn and practice French.
Les enfants d'Olga
Les enfants d'Olga is the official name of Olga Rubinskaya’s charity program and organization.
The program brings together people who are interested in French speech and French culture, as well as relations between France and Russia. I met this organization through a friend of mine who, like me, is interested in French culture and studies the French language. Through her, I managed to contact one of the organizers of this program, who invited me to the next meeting, the so-called “French breakfast”. The meeting took place in the cafe-bakery “Daily Bread” at the Kitay-Gorod metro station and was scheduled for Sunday morning, so it could not in any way interfere with my educational process at the institute. The first meeting with the program participants seemed very interesting and exciting to me. People of different ages and professions took part in it. At the beginning of the meeting, the organizer announced the topic of our conversation and each participant had to speak. The conversation was conducted exclusively in French.
Despite the fact that the level of language proficiency among the meeting participants varied quite a lot, everyone expressed their ideas and emotions without fear of making mistakes, since the atmosphere was very cozy and calm. Almost everyone ordered tea, coffee and croissants.
I managed to find new acquaintances, practice and improve my communication skills. The meeting lasted approximately two hours, at the end, as a new participant in the program, I was added to the Les enfants d’Olga charity program community on social networks so that I could independently learn about upcoming events and plan my participation in them.
Theater group in French under the direction of I.L. Nagle
Theater group in French under the direction of Nagle I.L. is a creative association of amateur actors who stage plays and participate in productions in French. The theater association is located in the Moscow City House of Teachers, at the Tretyakovskaya, Paveletskaya and Novokuznetskaya metro stations. I was able to attend one of their performances.
The performance was staged based on the play “Eight Women” by R. Tom. The audience was shown the first and second acts of the play; at the beginning it was announced that the last part would be shown at the beginning of 2020.
I found the performance fascinating, despite the fact that it was sometimes difficult to understand French. After the performance there was a discussion where the audience was able to express their emotions and ask questions.
It turned out that every person who speaks French has the opportunity to get into a theater troupe and try themselves in theatrical art, which will not only improve their communication skills, but also learn acting.
Participation in the work of a theater group is free, but a person who wants to become part of it should understand that the demands in the theater are great and one must be prepared for hard work and not miss rehearsals. Typically, rehearsals take place in the afternoon several times a week, so they will not interfere with the educational process, however, there will be less time for rest.
Francotheque
Francothèque, Francotheque is the cultural center of the Library of Foreign Literature. M.I.Rudomino. This is a great place where you can find many books in French, sit, read and work. Visitors have the opportunity to take with them the necessary literature for work. The library has a very pleasant atmosphere, there is a cafe and free internet. Various events are regularly held here, in which everyone can take part.
A visit to the Francotheque allows you to improve your language, always stay up to date with the cultural and political events of France, make new interesting acquaintances, and also usefully spend time in a pleasant environment.
At the beginning of each month, a schedule of events is published on the official pages of the Frankoteka on social networks, which allows you to plan your time in advance, combining a visit to the Frankoteka with work and study.
Official website of the French Embassy in Moscow
You can find information about French events that take place in Russia, about news about politics and culture in France. The website publishes news about upcoming exhibitions dedicated to French culture, about the days of Francophonie, about places where you can feel the atmosphere of France in Moscow. There are often announcements of paid, rather expensive events that are not always available to students. However, if you wish, you can find interesting and affordable events that are easy to combine with study and work. It is important that the site allows you to get acquainted with various practices of learning French in Moscow.
Alliance Française official website
Alliance Française is a public organization registered on the territory of the Russian Federation. The main goal of the Alliance Française is to promote the French language and culture, which corresponds to the principles of the Alliance Française Foundation of Paris.
The official website of the Alliance Française contains all the necessary information about ways to study and practice the French language in Russia. Here you can find information about programs that allow you to go on an internship to France, and about language courses for all age categories. However, these programs are paid, and not every student can afford to take part in them. But the site also contains information about the French Internet resource TV5monde, where anyone can learn French and practice it completely free of charge by viewing various materials. There is only one drawback to this practice of language learning - the lack of live communication, all communication takes place on a non-verbal level.
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The Center of French Culture in Moscow is a magical place!
The team working here for you seems to be an excellent and well-functioning mechanism for the transmission of living cultural values. I can imagine how many people, destinies and knowledge employees have to track in their work daily and monthly, from year to year, learning about the interests and preferences of everyone who comes here. It must be as interesting as working in some patent office, where every day you examine new applications for amazing and incredible inventions and innovations, marveling at the power of human thought.
I was lucky enough to participate in some of the center's events. Here they regularly conduct, supervise and inform you not only about seminars and round tables, French dance schools, conversations about science and education, days of France in Russia, film festivals (35 mm, Central House of Artists, Illusion and other bases), introduce you to French culture and cooking (there is a real French cafe in the building), but they also conduct entertaining language classes and games with children and their parents on Saturdays (after a break for the summer holidays, they will resume in September 2012), on a modern playground located right in the center hall.
Right wing of the VGBIL building.
Employees from Russia and France will take you to the “peaks” on an exciting journey to country “X” for knowledge and self-knowledge. On this path, people make real breakthroughs - fortunately, some need it for work, some are passing a diploma, some want their children to know French, and some get married, get married, or move, some already returned to Russia and does not want to forget the language, everyone here desperately needs knowledge.
Entrance here is open to a wide age and audience: for children, for adults, for teachers of schools and universities. It is clear that advanced courses, which issue diplomas and international certificates, are on a paid basis, located separately, in the right wing of the VGBIL building. The atmosphere in the corridors there is no less lively than at the New York Stock Exchange in the last minutes before the close of trading. Just like in Vysotsky’s song: “... those who have thousands, spend thousands. Here, without knowing how, you will find everything...” Classes are going on in the halls: concentration and immersion in what is happening with every fiber of the soul, like a mass with trumpet music , and the rays of stained glass light playing with a rainbow. The listeners burst into singing in the full choir of magical voices coming from the depths of the consciousness of the “I,” so the French Word flows melodiously and captures everyone here.
I am extremely pleased to be in this temple of the culture of international communication, fortunately the path to France began in my life at the age of six with French classes for preschoolers at Alliance Frances in Sofia, on the street. Rakovska with Madame Minkova - during the cultural renaissance of Bulgaria with the initiatives of philanthropist and Prime Minister Lyudmila Zhivkova (international annual Children's Assembly "Banner of Peace", in the name of culture and art). Then I continued my education in Moscow, on Begovaya, in the language “special school” 1244, with Madame Rumyantseva, in the group of school translation and the study of French journalism, discourse and structural linguistics. Then I was lucky enough to attend scientific seminars among the Francophones in Quebec and Switzerland, Belgium and Morocco.
In the center- everything is located very thoughtfully, conveniently and handily: right along the way - something like an exhibition of new products and current topics. To the left of the entrance are materials and courses on linguistics, textbooks and CDs, and then there is an openwork spiral staircase leading to the second tier of the hall. On the right is a magnificent collection of fresh periodicals, in the center are thematic novelties, in the depths of the hall there is a labyrinth of shelves of the main collections of the reading room, with excellent signs and inscriptions.
Among the many publications that I looked through and selectively read, I was interested in one book about the Cannes Film Festival. It revealed a lot to me about the club that unites filmmakers from all over the globe. I was momentarily immersed in the chronicle of the creative life and communication of a whole galaxy of stars of film production, film distribution and acting, in which the life of the rest of the society, including the audience, acts as an invaluable decor. This is Claude Lellouche's yacht, purchased during the economic crisis with funds from the film "A Man and a Woman", and even Tarkovsky - a modest and deeply philosophical prophet of the millennium! All this gorgeous diamond glaze of the most complex web of friendship, competition and brotherhood, human destinies in the film industry.
My children (Emily, 3 years old, and Miri, 5 years old) found and previewed on huge monitors films about “Papa Barba” and “Kirikou and the Animals of Africa,” savannah safari,” sagas about the Moomin Trolls and other children’s joys. A player, like the BBK we have at home, that reads any discs without discrimination based on the country of the manufacturer. Ecological motive (saving beaver lodges and forests from deforestation by people), studying and protecting the diversity and integrity of the world of living and inanimate nature, friendship and overcoming circumstances in a circle of close friends. , the beauty and dangerous violence of the forces of the earthly elements, all this fascinated, enchanted, and made us think... Then we began to sketch what we saw on paper and we got a harmonious symphony of color and emotions, new life experience.