Trips where the language is the air your students breathe.
Spanish in Madrid and Granada. French in Paris and the Loire. German in Berlin and Bavaria. Nine days in-country with a Tour Director who grew up speaking it.
- Native-speaking Tour Director on every tour
- As much target-language conversation as your group can handle
- Every meal, market, and museum becomes practice
- Best for AP/IB language students or college majors
The classroom for the language is the country itself.
Every Passports tour is a cultural-learning expedition — that's the floor. A language-immersion tour is what happens when you point that focus directly at the language. Your Tour Director is a native speaker in the country your group is visiting (French in France, Spanish in Spain, German in Germany) and will run as much of the day in the target language as your group leader asks for. Students order their own dinner. They read the museum placard. They argue, in French, about whether Versailles or Chambord is the better château. Nine days of that does what two semesters of textbook drills don't — and the rest of the trip is still a real Passports tour, with the same Tour Director model, same inclusions, same operational backbone.
Any single-country tour below
can be a language tour.
We don’t run a separate language program — we layer language onto whichever single-country itinerary fits your group. Pick how deep you want to go, and your Tour Director runs your trip in the target language to that depth.
Speak it where it fits.
Your Tour Director is a native speaker, no matter which tour you pick. Ask them to lean into the target language at meals, on the bus, during free time — students hear it constantly, and they speak it when they’re ready. Costs nothing extra; works on any single-country itinerary.
Stack formal class hours.
Add morning language classes onto the front of your days. Two hours, three hours, every weekday — your Tour Advisor builds it into the itinerary. The afternoon stays a real Passports tour: museums, sites, meals, the country’s actual life, all of it now reinforcing what they covered that morning.
Make the language the spine.
Daily briefings, site walks, museum visits, problem-solving on the bus — all in the target language, gate to gate. English stays available for emergencies and complex content; the rest of the trip becomes a real working week of the language. Your Tour Director sets the floor and adjusts to the room.
Greek and Portuguese available where the tour calls for it — ask your Tour Advisor.
20 itineraries
See the full catalog →
More tours like this
Pick the closest itinerary — your Tour Advisor will customize it.
Group size, dates, departure city, interests — everything flexes. Zero deposit until you’re ready.