About CERAN

Established in 1975, CERAN is a leading specialist in intensive residential language seminars.

Every year, CERAN centres across Europe welcome men and women who wish to improve their foreign language skills. CERAN centres offer courses in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Japanese. The CERAN methodology, which focuses on the needs of each individual, has helped thousands of international clients learn a foreign language.

The personalised CERAN approach with complete immersion from 8.15 am until 10.30 pm, combined with our own methodology and techniques enables you to make a maximum progress in a minimum time. Our courses are designed by experienced trainers to meet your expectations and needs and we are committed to your learning success.

Each year CERAN also welcomes Juniors aged between 10 and 18 to their junior programmes, which combine intensive language learning with a wide variety of sports and leisure activities in a safe environment.

Who Are We?

Company mergers, career changes, frequent trips abroad, multicultural business meetings and the globalization of daily contacts makes a knowledge of languages a vital professional advantage in today’s world.

In this context:

• You need to learn a new language, bring your skills up to date or take them to a higher level.
• You want to make a maximum of progress in a minimum of time.
• You would like to take advantage of your own personal commitment to discover other cultures and meet other people who share the same objective.

CERAN is the solution – we can provide for all your needs in English, French, Dutch, German Spanish and Japanese.

For over 30 years, CERAN has been a leading specialist in intensive residential language seminars.

Every year, CERAN centres welcome men and women for work related or personal reasons, who like you, are regularly faced with situations in which they have to communicate in a foreign language.

Why Choose CERAN?

• An efficient concept
  A residential package on our own premises, giving us total control over all practical aspects of your stay and allowing you to concentrate fully on your learning objectives.

  Complete immersion in the target language, with constant coaching from our trainers to encourage the practice of what you have learned in real communication situations and accelerate your progress.

• Quality Guarantee
  The CERAN group guarantees a high level of quality in all its centres. Our methodology and techniques are constantly being revised and improved by continuously analysing our clients' needs and levels of satisfaction. The methodology is applied in our centres by contracted trainers who are native speakers and who are subject to continuous quality checks.

• Maximum flexibility
  CERAN offers a high degree of flexibility, welcoming students of all levels of linguistic competence every week throughout the year. You can choose a group, combination of private programme organized into four modules that are specially adapted to your level and needs.

CERAN Complete Immersion

All our programmes consist of nine learning activities, each lasting 45 minutes, five days a week.

These structuring and systematic learning sessions are complemented by a variety of opportunities for practising the language during breaks, meals and evening sessions led by our trainers. This approach ensures that you consolidate your knowledge and gain real communication skills that take full account of the cultural dimension of learning a foreign language.

In all, this adds up to at least 35 hours of lessons per week, reinforced by a further 35 hours of practice supervised by our trainers.

The CERAN Techniques:

The QRI® is an interactive technique based on a system of questions and responses, providing a natural way to help the student improve his and her ability to comunicate orally.

The Key Sentences

The key sentences summarise the essential points of each lesson in the form of sentences that can be transposed into other contexts. They are recorded on a CD that the student can take away at the end of the stay.

Phonetic Correction

The verbo-tonal method for phonetic correction (developed by the University of Mons-Hainaut in Belgium) helps to improve the perception of sounds and thus the comprehension of a message, and helps correct intonation, rhythm, stress and sound production.