Language PLUS Cooking: Language courses abroad

Do you appreciate fine food and are you happy to help out with the cooking? You'll love our Language PLUS Cooking programmes all over the world! Combining language lessons and cooking workshops, these programme guarantee effective learning through practise and the pleasure of taste.

Get ready to explore world cuisine, sample tasty local produce and have a flavourful experience together with other aspiring cooks from all over the world. Focusing on pleasure and sharing, cooking workshops are an opportunity to apply the language skills learned in class and discover specific vocabulary while honing your cooking talents. This is the perfect recipe for consolidating your newly acquired knowledge.

Learning to prepare authentic, local dishes means further exploring the traditions and culture of your destination country. After learning the basics, you're free to improvise the recipe to suit your taste and put the cooking tips of your fellow international chefs to the test! 

Tapas, vino y paella! Rich, colourful and flavourful, Spanish cuisine brings happiness to the kitchen. Discover the specialties of this fiery nation during exciting culinary workshops in Valencia or check out the Spanish PLUS cooking programme in sunny Malaga or in San Sebastian, well known for being a culinary capital.

Delicate, refined and proud of its heritage, French cuisine is an institution. Whether you prefer sweet or savoury dishes, quiche, éclair or macarons, our school in Rouen will offer you workshops to suit your taste so you can put your French skills into practise while exploring the recipes that have shaped France’s reputation throughout the world.

How can you resist the mouth-watering flavours of Italian cooking, with its fresh produce grown under the Tuscan sun and generously covered with olive oil? In order to unveil the secret of this culinary art, passed down through generations, take part in the cooking workshops organised by our partner schools in Rome. The programme includes wine tasting and pasta- and sauce-making workshops.

More to the north of the country, our partners in Florence and Bologna are happy to share Italian recipes with you during tasty cooking lessons.
In Salerno in the sunny south, our partner school has prepared an exciting introduction to cuisine programme balancing practical workshops and seminars with food-related cultural visits. Gourmets will be delighted by the wide range of activities offered, from wine tasting and mozzarella factory visits to recipes from the Campania region.

Even further south, learn to prepare Calabrian specialties in Tropea or hop over to the islands and become familiar with Sicilian cuisine in Taormina or with the Sardinian delicacies in Alghero.

Check out the best Italian recipes on our blog. 

Sushi, udon noodles, miso soup and more… is your mouth watering yet? Learn how to prepare these dishes from a professional sushi instructor and sake sommelier! Dive into the culture and explore the intricate world of Japanese cuisine through a Japanese language + cooking course through our partner school in Tokyo.