Alliance Francaise du Manitoba

Loved the lunch-hour French conversational classes! A great way to practice your French. Merci.

The Alliance is not only a high quality language school with very high teaching standards. This is also a place to meet people, to enjoy culture (most of time cultural activities are free), and sometimes even a good glass of wine! They also have a very good Francophone movie collection. Highly recommend — go check their events, it’s worth it.

I wouldn't even give them one star.They were completly incompetent in every way.They made mistakes with the time and dates of my classes. Refused to correct their mistakes, refused to refund me for their mistakes. Telling me I could only transfer my funds to a different class and not get a refund after they put me in the wrong level of classes that they tested me at.I then paid more money to be moved to private lessons. since some of my group lessons ( which were the wrong class ) had already passed. I had to pay more for the same amount of hours I originally paid for.They changed times on me again once in private classes. They refused to switch the ONE time I asked ( making me waste $50 which was the cost of one hour session )After the most ridiclous money wasting experience I've ever had I tried to cancel any future hours I had. And they charged me 25 dollars to cancel private lessons I hadn't even booked yet.All thought out this point I wasn't allowed to speak to anyone who was in charge or in any sort or manager / boss positionBiggest waste of time and money. They don't care about you or if you learn a thing. They care about money.Make sure you read every little thing in the fine print because they charge you for everything !!!!

I was in the summer course. not recommended for a TOTAL beginner. I was having a hard time with the overwhelming CD listening practice during the class, I hadn't even known the vocabulary items ( or had been taught with ) before the practice. How would I suppose to understand the conversation and get the answers ? One of the teachers even took away my transcriptions when I was trying to follow the CD, highlight the keywords. She just asked me to try listening". It doesn't make any sense in A101 class. It's a very stressful learning environment. We just read the textbook

Alliance has welcomed me with open arms and connected me into the francophone community in a way I didn't know was possible. The cultural events are an amazing way to link into a vibrant community and learn the language through experience. The director and diverse staff are genuinely passionate about sharing the French language and supporting the cultural scene in Winnipeg. If you want to learn French while connecting with people and the arts, jump on it!