Where French is spoken:
French is the official language of France and its overseas territories as well as Bénin; Burkina Faso; Central African Republic; Congo (Democratic Republic of); Congo (Republic of); Côte d'Ivoire; Gabon; Guinea; Luxembourg; Mali; Monaco; Niger; Sénégal; Togo; the Canadian province of Québec; and the Swiss districts of Vaud, Neuchâtel, Genève, and Jura.

French is a co-official language in Belgium, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Haiti (the two official languages are French and French Creole), Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles, Switzerland, and Vanuatu.

Summer Youth Programs (ages 7-18)
Lac du Bois (est. 1962) Join us this summer at the traditional French Language Village. We offer fun one-week exploratory, two-week immersion, four-week high school credit and four-week college credit sessions at three different summer locations in Bemidji and Hackensack, Minn., and Savannah, Georgia. Special sessions in Bemidji focus on Switzerland and Africa. click here to learn more!

Les Voyageurs Do you love camping and canoeing? Check out our French wilderness program in Bemidji, Minn., focusing on French-speaking Canada and the French fur traders of the Great Lakes region in the 1800s! click here to learn more!

French Day Camp

We welcome young villagers ages 6-11 to the authentic French Language Village north of Bemidji for a fun day camp experience. With a passport in hand, your child will join a whole new world of adventure. Learning a language is integrated into all the fun of a summer day camp in a way that only the Language Villages offers. Click here for more information and tuition rates.

Study Abroad in France (high school grades 9-12)
Explore Bretagne for one month in July and earn high school credit. Experience the same intensive immersion language learning philosophy of the Villages while you experience France. click here to learn more!

French Family Week
Bring the whole family to a Family Week near Bemidji, Minn. Learn about French language and culture through activities, sports, music, arts, and crafts! Click here to learn more!

Village Weekends for French Language Teachers and Students (grades 3-12)
Bring your French class to the Villages for a fun immersion program during the school year! One weekend a month French is offered at our Turtle River Lake sites near Bemidji, Minn. click here to learn more!

Summer Family Week at Lac du Bois
Babies to great-grandparents will love French family week near Bemidji, Minn. Spend a beautiful summer week together learning about French language and culture! click here to learn more! 

Family Fun Weekend
Bring the whole family to a Family Fun Weekend in Bemidji, Minn. Learn about French language and culture through activities, sports, music, arts, and crafts! click here to learn more!

Adult French Immersion Week and Les Voyageurs Adult Week
Do you want to sharpen your French or learn more about French culture, cuisine, history, arts and music? Join us in June or September in Bemidji, Minn. Click here to learn more!

Helvetia Swiss Week

Live the languages and culture of Switzerland this summer during Helvetia Swiss Week, our new immersion adventure, August 25-30, 2008. Located at our beautiful Turtle River Lake site near Bemidji, Minnesota, Helvetia Swiss Week offers a great experience in Switzerland’s three major languages–German, French, and Italian–together with exciting discoveries in Swiss culture and cuisine. Kids 8-18 can come on their own, as can the entire family–bring Oma Elisabeth, nonno Marianno, bébé Jacques, or the whole entourage. Click here to learn more!

Teacher Seminar for French Educators
Do you want to learn more about second language immersion methodologies and the Concordia Language Villages immersion model? Attend the ten-day graduate course in July in Bemidji, Minn. click here to learn more!

Employment at the French Villages
Are you a fluent French speaker who loves kids? Come work at our Youth Summer Programs, Village Weekends or adult and family programs. Do you love the cuisine of the French-speaking world? Consider joining our amazing food service staff. click here to learn more!

Reunion for Lac du Bois & Les Voyageurs Staff
Join alumni staff at a celebration this spring. Click here for dates, location, and events.

Supporting the French Programs
Support the Village Visions for Lac du Bois and Les Voyageurs. Donate time, realia, resources or expertise to the Villages. click here to learn more!