A sister organisation to Sydney French Language Group ( http://www.meetup.com/sydney-french

The French English Exchange - Sydney/Pacific Region  is a Sydney based international French Language meetup club.  members of French meetups from Melcourne, Brisbane and Adelaide and other parts of the world are encouraged to join us.

It encourages members to visit France in the Pacific Region!!! When visiting major French cities in the Pacific Region, some are only 2 hours by plane from Australia - These members will have a great opportunity to practice their French when attending these language and social meetup in a safe and fun environment. Republic of Vanuato - New Caledonia ( Noumea ) - French Polynisia (Tahiti) - Wallis and Futuna - Reunion We will be locating organisers in these beautiful Island-countries to post social and French language meetups and events. if you know anyone in Sydney who comes from these countries please let us know...perhaps they can recommend someone.

Membership of this group is either by invitation or applicants can join providing that their French is at intermediate level or higher or currently enrolled at some of the local university French courses.  This group will function best if many native French Speakers join it... 

The plan is to organise French immersion programs in some of the French Speaking countries which are closer to Sydney than some Australian states.

Native French speakers that travel with us may get substantial discounts in airfare and accomodation, we encourage them to join us. 

We will hold limited meetups for French Practice..We don' t encourage French beginners to join this group and happy to accept them at www.meetup.com/sydney-french

We encourage French speakers from all over the world to join us. 

Uniting the world via French Language activities in the Pacific Region' s French Countries!

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Info about the French countries which we intend to visit as part of the French Immersion Program, usually these programs are too expensive and beyond reach - we intend to make them affordable :

Republic of Vanuatu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanuatu#Cultur... (French), is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. It is some 1,750 kilometres east of northern Australia, 500 kilometres (310 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea. oficial languages Bislama, French and English.

New Caledonia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia New Caledonia[4] (French: officially: Nouvelle-Calédonie; colloquially: (la) Calédonie; popular nickname: (le) Caillou), is a special collectivity of France. It is located in the subregion of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. It comprises a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. It has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172 sq mi).The population is estimated to be 249,000.[1] The capital and largest city of the territory is Nouméa. The currency is the CFP franc French

Polynesia / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Polynes... ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɨˈniːʒə/ ( listen) (French: Polynésie française, pronounced: [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni) is an overseas collectivity or constituent country of the French Republic (pays d'outre-mer). It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory (Papeete). Although not an integral part of its territory, Clipperton Island was administered from French Polynesia until 2007. The Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands (French: Wallis et Futuna or Territoire des îles Wallis et Futuna, Fakauvea and Fakafutuna: Uvea mo Futuna), is a Polynesian French island territory in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, the New Zealand-associated state of Tokelau to the northeast and to a more distant north the Phoenix Islands (Kiribati). (However, Wallis and Futuna is not part of, nor even contiguous with, French Polynesia.

Wallis and Futuna is located at the very opposite western end of Polynesia.) Réunion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union(F...: La Réunion, IPA: [la ʁeynjɔ̃] ( listen); previously Île Bourbon) is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south west of Mauritius, the nearest island