SUL - UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE SERVICE

Presentation

The SUL welcomes foreign students of different nationalities and offers them French language and culture courses at all levels through diploma courses, year-round FLE courses and intensive summer courses.

Its mission is to :

• Offer training in French as a Foreign Language, including its University Diploma (DU LCF) is a key component. Every semester, some 300 students from all over the world come to learn and discover a language and culture with an experienced and dynamic teaching team. From FLE courses courses are organized throughout the semester in Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and online, for AMU students and staff, as well as international students on Erasmus+ or individual mobility programs.
• Supporting learners of Modern Languages (French and foreign) in its language resource center, the CARLAM through the provision of self-study materials and supervised tutoring and conversation activities. Several hundred students deepen their language learning every year, some earning the Language Bonus "validated by their training in AMU components.
• Offering students the opportunity to take language certifications required by students and individuals as part of their international mobility and/or professional integration.
  In particular, the department organizes the taking of the CLES (Higher Education Language Certificate), the TOEIC - Listening and Reading, the DALF (Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française), the TCF (Test de Connaissance du Français), and will also offer other language certifications (FLE and LVE).
• Train FLE trainers seeking to perfect their didactic skills in French as a foreign language. This mission is assigned to SUPFLES.

Located in France's second largest metropolitan area, the SUL aims to meet the needs of Aix-Marseille University's components to ensure the best possible integration of students into the university's various courses and cycles (bachelor's, master's, doctorate) and into further studies in higher education.

Location - How to get to SUL

SUL-Aix Schuman (FLE center)

View the access map to the Schuman campus.

By bus

• From downtown Aix (and the SNCF train station), take the Aixpress line A bus to the "Schuman" stop (in front of the ALLSH faculty entrance). Our Porte building (T3) is the first building on your left.
  See also the Aix-en-Provence transport services website: Aix en bus
  Or the city of Aix-en-Provence website, section: Déplacements-Transport

By car

• Please note that parking is difficult around the ALLSH faculty (the university parking lot is not accessible). You can park at the Krypton parking lot (from the freeway: exit 30 or 30b "Pont de l'Arc"), then take the Aixpress bus line A.

SUL-Marseille (CARLAM)

See for directions to the St Charles campus.

The campus is located right next to the Saint-Charles SNCF train station and bus station, as well as a Marseille metro station .