My name is Céline Art, I am a qualified language teacher, teaching French and Spanish as foreign languages since 2010 and I designed the linguistic immersion stay Destination French in order to fulfill a need I perceive in my students' practice, as well as to combine all my skills and likes in a single experience. After many years of teaching French in 1-to-1 classes to adult students, I noticed that even those who are living in French-speaking countries as expats don't get good opportunities to practice their French with native French speakers. It gets even more complicated for students living abroad. Often, their struggle to create the environment to practice their French is because those students are surrounded by English-speaking people or their native language. Therefore, their practice, whether they live in French-speaking countries or visit them for holidays, is limited to small interactions with the cashier in the supermarket, with the waiter in the restaurant, or with the receptionist in the hotel. For many people, this is just fine, but for many others, this limitation is frustrating. That's why they take 1-to-1 French classes with me! In my classes, I try as much as possible to bring the authenticity of the language, to teach them how natives speak, but a 1-to-1 conversation will never be the same as taking part in a conversation with several native French speakers. Some dimensions of the language and the culture can only be reached by experiencing them in person and in an authentic environment. As an expat and a language learner myself, I know the importance of being immersed in a language to improve it fast. Not having a getaway language to express ourselves, or understand what people say, awakes our survival superpowers, and that's when we learn way faster! Destination French aims to reproduce this situation. I assure you that this experience will definitely boost your confidence in speaking French, increase your level, and give you the satisfaction of having a deep cultural exchange with local people. The stay is entirely designed by me. This is an aspect of the experience I propose that goes beyond the frame of my professional activity as a teacher, but it is a great occasion for me to unleash my passion for organizing trips and bringing people together. I am a confirmed traveler. I chose to practice my profession online to give myself the scope to travel the world and unceasingly discover new cultures and places. This lifestyle nourishes my soul, and planning a trip is one of the most enjoyable things I can do. I plan my own trips, my friends and family's trips, I even assess friends of friends to plan their trips, and my favorite ones, I plan trips for the friends and family who are coming to visit me. I take so much pleasure in showing them around and sharing everything I love about the place with them. That's the feeling I want to share with the participants of Destination French.