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.

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

Antonia Cetin | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

Neurolinguistic approach (NLA) expert and trainer
DELF exam trainer
Pedagogical resources author

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

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

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

Denise Paquette | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

Joined Premiere Class in 2023
Life coach
DELF exam scorer

France Dupuis | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

Joined Premiere Class in 2022
Neurolinguistic approach (NLA) expert and trainer across Canada and abroad
DELF exam trainer

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

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

Monique Haché | Language Consultant, FSL | Ottawa

Joined Premiere Class in 2022
DELF exam scorer
Teaching awards recipient

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

French courses in companies in Toronto.