It all began more than 45 years ago, in Spa, Belgium, where the founding couple of CERAN, Monique and René Bastin, had a vision to help people from different backgrounds and cultures communicate and understand each other better.
Today, CERAN’s mission is as relevant as ever and the CERAN group is carrying out this mission by offering a variety of language and intercultural training courses to both companies and individuals. You choose what suits your needs best : full immersion, distance-learning or E-Learning.
In 2019, CERAN became part of the Chateauform’ group, which is the European leader in hosting seminars and corporate events. CERAN immersion courses now benefit from the added warmthand quality of service of the Chateauform’ teams and venuesthroughout Europe.
At the CERAN Academy, we put all our skills, energy and care into supporting JUNIORS (9 to 17 years old) and YOUNG ADULTS (18 to 25 years old) on their educational journey at our sites in Spa,St Roch Ferrières (Belgium) or Champéry (Switzerland) during the school holidays and remotely all year round.
You can count on the commitment and experience of the CERANAcademy to provide lasting progress through «Seriously Fun»language experiences.

OUR COMMITMENT

• International camps with a good mix of nationalities
• Rapid progress : 1 CEFR level acquired in an average of 2.5 weeks
• Educational and fun activities and excursions
• Premium accommodation and balanced meals
• Exceptional destinations and secure facilities
• Centres equipped with high tech teaching tools
• Immersion programmes
• Native-speaker instructors trained in the CERAN methodology
• High ratio of 1 staff member to 3 students
• Small classes - no more than 9 children per class with an average of 7

THE CONCEPT OF IMMERSION

From morning to evening, students practice the target language with their classmates, teachers and supervisors, even outside the classroom during meals, activities and excursions. Non-stop practice!

VERBO-TONAL
Every language has its own music, rhythm and intonation. This verbo-tonal method corrects students’ phonetic errors, improves pronunciation and reduces the influence of their mother tongue to enable better communication.

KEY SENTENCES
They summarise each lesson and are recorded for students to practice and use in different contexts.

JUNIORS PROGRAMME
from 9 to 17 yers old

Thanks to our well-balanced programmes which combine teaching and leisure, the CERAN Academy offers JUNIORS from 9 to 17 years old language immersion courses in 2 different countries. From beginners to advanced, all levels are welcome to learn in groups of maximum 7 to 9 students following 2845-minute lessons per week. The lessons and activities are organised by language level and age group.

SERIOUSLY.
The CERAN Academy offers intensive courses for JUNIORS in 4 different languages: French, English, German and Dutch (please enquire about other languages for which we can offer individual programmes).Each student practises the target language throughout the day for a better assimilation of knowledge, including during organised leisure activities.

The courses allow young learners to gain confidence, improve their communication skills, activate their knowledge, overcome difficulties experienced at school or simply start learning a new language.

CERAN Academy students all benefit from 28 45-minute group lessons per week(equivalent to 21 hours of classes), including speaking, reading and comprehension lessons in the morning, while the afternoon is dedicated to writing lessons and projects in which the language is put into practice.Vocabulary and grammar are taught through the practice of everyday situations such as introducing oneself, giving one’s opinion on current affairs or the study of different themes which lead to multimedia presentations, exhibitions of paintings, photographs or videos.

It is possible to add extra individual lessons each day - 2, 4, 6 or 8 lessons more during the week - in order to work on a specific difficulty, a gap, to prepare for a school exam or international tests such as Cambridge,TOEFL, DALF, etc.