ESL advantages

ESL proposes a multitude of accommodation options to you, including the best host families, selected with care and benefitting from regular inspections, student residences or shared apartments. Acoding to the destinations, you will have the choice between solutions going from the comfort of a hotel to the freedom of a studio. Something for all tastes and all budgets.

ESL - Study Abroad works with the main airlines and can make a booking for you for anywhere in the world at competitive prices. Please do no hesitate to ask us for a free price quote. If you mention it on your enrolment form, we will send you a quote for a good value flight, for information purposes only.

Cancellation insurance is offered once your course is confirmed. In case of major disruption (accident or illness) before departure, it allows you to cancel the residence abroad and to be refunded the major part of your intial payment, with the exception of the flight ticket. The travel insurance covers you in case of any possible disruption during your period abroad: loss of baggage, medical fees and hospitalisation, legal protection or renumeration for an exam resit (for students) - you will have nothing to worry about! For more information: see our general conditions

Do I need a visa? What is the procedure? Where must I make the visa request? ESL will guide you during your administrative steps and will provide you will the documents necessary for obtaining your visa.

The basic academic service we propose consists of integrating a class which corresponds to the level of language knowledge of each participant. This is vital in order to feel at ease and to progress in a consistent manner. It is also what will make the course effective and interesting. Consequently, all of the schools offer an evaluation test during the first day. ESL also proposes this service during a consultancy interview, if you so wish. It is very useful when you wish to take a certificate preparation course for which it is necessary to have a specified minimum level.

Thanks to the good professional relationships we maintain with airlines, we regularly offer free flights to some destinations. Throughout the year, all of our students travelling to BSC Brighton, London or Oxford for 12 or 24 weeks will be offered free tickets to London, flying with British Airways, Swiss Airlines or EasyJet (only valid for Switzerland and metropolitan France/airports: Geneva, Zurich, Bâle, Lyon, Paris, Toulouse and Marseille). For 24 weeks in Berlin, a flight is offered departing from Geneva. For students who follow a course of 24 weeks or more in Spain, we offer a free flight to Barcelona or Madrid departing from Geneva or Paris. Offers are valid for enrolments received 2 months before departure at the latest. See our special offers

Ideally and for practical reasons, it is necessary to enrol for a language study stay in advance (flight, visa, accommodation). Numerous students find themselves held up, whilst awaiting exam results, in carrying out the steps in time. Conscious of this situation, we offer a cancellation insurance free of charge which allows you to put your plans in place without worrying about the consequences in case of failure. In other words, you can enrol without risk for a language study stay and if, unfortunately, you are no longer in a position to travel abroad because of your studies (failure of exams), we retain no fees.
For more information: see our terms and conditions.

As we exclusively propose the original prices of our partners, we offer you the possibility to pay in foreign currency. Otherwise, we invoice in Swiss Francs (or in Euro), according to the current exchange rate.

In order to give you a precise idea of the cost your language study stay represents and in order to give you the opportunity to compare different destinations, we send you free personalised and detailed price offers in CHF or in Euros. In this way, you will be able to think things over at home, at your leisure, whilst having all the necessary elements at hand to make your decision.

Family
If we receive an enrolment form for 2 people from the same family (brothers, sisters, parents or couples) for the same course and dates, we offer the following price reductions:

• from 3 to 5 weeks: CHF 50 / EUR 30
• from 6 to 8 weeks: CHF 75 / EUR 50
• from 9 to 12 weeks: CHF 100 / EUR 75
• from 13 to 23 weeks: CHF 150 / EUR 100
• more than 24 weeks: on demand

Groups
We also offer the above reductions for groups of three or more. For groups of 10 students or more, we offer language courses at very competitive rates.
Please contact us for more information.

More and more language schools offer students the possibility to connect to the internet via their wireless network. Students will need to bring their own laptop computer to be able to access WiFi.