French Education in the Bay Area

This review is for the Saratoga location of EFBA.
The room set up is just ridiculous. It is a room rented off the side of a church. It’s the size of a broom closet, divided by an accordion door with a class on other side. The noise completely passes through. My daughter said it was very noisy and hard to concentrate. She is a very diligent student in her regular school. The AC isn’t properly functioning. It’s hot and stuffy.
The regular teacher couldn’t be bothered to turn up. There was a substitute teacher and this sub told me she won’t be there on Wednesday; it’s some other substitute. The regular teacher may or may not be there next week. ?!
The room is bare and awful. There are zero curriculum materials. The table and chairs are way too big so the children are writing with dangling legs. This is terrible for learning. I saw the children were writing out the alphabet on computer paper. What a total joke.
This school is a sham. They should be ashamed to be asking such high, expensive tuition for such a program.

We love the French program offered by the EFBA at Washington Open Elementary. My daughter enjoys the class and has made progress in French. Many kudos to the teacher for keeping the class fun yet full of good practice in French. The teacher Nadia is so kind, so understand and so loving.

This is a fantastic (and hard to find) program for kids trying to learn and keep up with their French. My daughter loves going to Nadia’s class at the Santa Clara Washington site since the learning is very engaging and fun. We also send our daughter to FEBA’s summer camp and very impressive with every teacher’s passion and creativity. You can just tell that their teachers love kids and the kids love them, and that’s something that can’t be measured by money.

My son has loved working with Nadia and his classmates in the Petits Anglophones class at the Santa Clara Washington Open site. The classes are creative, fun, and engaging. They get to do arts & crafts, draw, write and speak French at an elementary level that is tailored to their needs. I highly recommend this class.

Just the right level for our six-​year old — he is fully bilingual and speaks English only with his mom, French only with his dad, and reads both languages fluently. The class has introduced him to formal conjugation, spelling (such as accents and c cedille), vocabulary and even poetry. Classmates are his age (4 – 7) and the class size is optimal (8 to 10). His teacher Nadia is passionate and dedicated, and systematically communicates with parents on a weekly basis. Couldn’t recommend the program enough, at least the Santa Clara location.

Madame Sophie makes French interesting and fun for our three children! We moved here from Canada where our children were in a bilingual school, this is such a great way for them to continue their French education.

What an amazing class! I am so happy to have this opportunity for my daughter. She’s had 4 years at a french immersion school, but then we left for public school. There is no french spoken at home, so i was at a lose as to how to keep up what she worked so hard to learn. At first I was skeptical that the class was enough to keep up her French, but it is that and so much more. Sophie, the instructor, is just great. Very organized and well thought out plans for each class. She also gets help from another French native mom in the class room. My daughter loves it. Not only is she keeping up the French, but her French is improving. Thank you Sophie!!! I highly recommend this class.