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French courses in
companies in Toronto.

Premiere Class is a Toronto-based company specializing in teaching business French to professionals in companies in Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

We offer French group classes, private lessons, and online courses. Our clients include professional individuals, business owners, and companies across various sectors: accounting, financial, insurance, legal, non-profit, technology.

Our teaching method is modern, engaging and participative thanks to our active approach adapted to each of our clients. We are passionate, dynamic and creative!

Premiere Class takes a balanced approach in its pedagogy, combining expertise in teaching French and hands on knowledge of the business community.

 

— MATTHIEU PRUNIER

Director and Lead Consultant

Quick facts.

QUICK FACTS

Founded in

2018

450

students

9,000+

hours of training

27%

growth in 2023

EDUCATION

Team.

The strength of a training company lies in its trainers and teachers. We know that taking language classes for our students is above all a human relationship. That's why we place an important emphasis in our recruitment.

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Anna Buccioni Language Consultant, ESL | Toronto

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2020

  • 30+ years of language teaching experience in Canada and China

  • English as a Second Language (ESL) training specialist with Premiere Class

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Antonia Cetin | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Neurolinguistic approach (NLA) expert and trainer

  • DELF exam trainer

  • Pedagogical resources author

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Chantal Soucy | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2024

  • DELF exam scorer

  • Pedagogical resources author

 

Claire Michelle Sirois | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2024

  • 25+ years of combined professional experience in French language teaching

  • DELF exam scorer

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Colette Fraser | Language Consultant, FSL | Sudbury

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2022

  • Ontario French as a Second Language curriculum writing team member in 2013

  • DELF exam scorer

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Denis Cousineau Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2020

  • 35+ years of combined professional experience in French language teaching and adult training

  • CEFR expert and conference speaker across Canada

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Denise Paquette | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2023

  • Life coach

  • DELF exam scorer

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France Dupuis | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2022

  • Neurolinguistic approach (NLA) expert and trainer across Canada and abroad

  • DELF exam trainer

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Johanne Proulx | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • 35+ years of combined professional experience in French language teaching and adult training

  • Conference speaker across Canada

  • Pedagogical resources author

 

Lyne Gratton | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2024

  • DELF exam scorer

  • Neurolinguistic approach (NLA) trainer

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Matthieu Prunier | Director and Lead Consultant | Toronto

  • Premiere Class founder in 2018

  • 10+ years of marketing, business consulting and French language training experience in Canada and France

  • DELF exam trainer

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Monique Haché | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

  • 30+ years of combined professional experience in French language teaching in Canada

  • DELF exam scorer

  • Teaching awards recipient

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Olga Rubino | Language Consultant, FSL | Toronto

  • 35+ years of combined professional experience in adult training, and teacher candidate formation

  • Experience includes positions at: University of Toronto, York University as a Course Director in the Faculty of Education

  • DELF exam scorer

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Shahrzad Mirzaei | Language Consultant, FSL | Toronto

  • Joined Premiere Class in 2021 

  • 10+ years of adult French training experience in Canada and France 

  • Master of Education, University of Strasbourg, France and PhD candidate in French Linguistics, University of Toronto

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Feel like joining our team? Send us your resume at bonjour@premiere-class.com.

MANAGEMENT

Management.

Matthieu Prunier is the Director and Lead Consultant of Premiere Class since 2019.
 

Matthieu began his career as a Marketing Analyst at GfK France. After several years in market research and business consulting, he began his teaching career in 2013 in France.

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In 2014, he joined Alliance Française de Toronto as a Teacher for professionals (McDonald's, CPA Canada, etc.) and was promoted to the position of Campus Principal in 2015.

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In 2017, Matthieu joined the Digital Learning team in Groupe Média TFO, an agency of the Government of Ontario where he successfully promoted its French educational content for two years. He negotiated subscription agreements with provincial ministries of Education and school boards in the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada, where he trained groups of more than 100 French teachers and language consultants to improve their teaching approach.

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Matthieu has a Master of Science (MSc) in Marketing from Toulouse School of Management, France and is a DELF examiner-scorer (Diplôme d'Études en Langue Française).

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