Alice La Flèche — Founder
Meet Alice La Flèche
Language Coach · Cultural Anthropologist · Accelerated Learning Specialist
Global Roots
Alice La Flèche holds an Honours degree in Cultural Anthropology. She grew up in a diplomatic family, moving across multiple countries during her childhood, an upbringing that gave her an early, deep interest in human communication and social dynamics. That curiosity followed her into adulthood, taking her across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, where she built a lifelong understanding of how language, culture, and human behavior shape one another.
A Career Built on Language
Over the past 30 years, Alice has taught at universities, trained professionals inside major corporations, and worked with departments of the Government of Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces. That range, classrooms, boardrooms, and federal institutions, gave her a ground-level view of how differently people need to learn depending on who they are and what's actually at stake for them.
The Method
Alice went on to study Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the science of language acquisition, and used what she learned to build her own accelerated learning methodology, the foundation Bravo Langues is built on. It isn't a generic curriculum. It's a system designed around how people actually retain and use a new language under real deadlines.
Why She Does This Today
Today, Alice focuses on one thing: helping newcomers to Canada build confidence, develop real language skills, and integrate successfully. That mission isn't new to her, as a single mother, she opened her home for years to boarders from around the world: people from China, Brazil, Colombia, Japan, Ghana, South Africa, France, Spain, the United States, Venezuela, Australia, Ukraine, and many other countries. Long before Bravo Langues existed, her home was already proof of what she believes, that language and connection can turn strangers into family. For her, language learning isn't just an exam to pass, it's a tool for connection, opportunity, and identity for new Canadians building a life here.
Lydia Ettouhari — Teacher,
Applied Linguist
Lydia Ettouhari
French Language Teacher · Applied Linguist
A Foundation in Language Teaching
Lydia holds a Master's degree in the Didactics of French, a specialized program focused not just on the French language itself, but on the science of how it's actually taught and learned. That academic foundation gave her a strong, structured skill set in pedagogy, classroom teaching, and one-on-one learner support.
The Approach
Rather than treating French as a fixed set of rules to memorize, Lydia builds her lessons around three things: learning, communication, and student success. In practice, that means every class is built around what a student actually needs to be able to do with the language, with real conversation and measurable progress at the center of it, not just the next chapter in a textbook.
Why Students Choose Her
Lydia's combination of academic training and hands-on classroom experience means she can meet a student exactly where they are, whether that's building confidence from scratch or refining fluency for a specific goal like an exam or a new job.
Raphaël La Flèche — Growth Strategist
Meet Raphaël
Strategy, Marketing & Operations
Built to Build
Born in New York City and raised in Montreal, Canada, Raphaël La Fleche has always been curious about people, cultures, businesses, and how things work. That curiosity has shaped both his professional path and his outlook on the world.
A Foundation in Business
Raphaël studied Marketing, Operations, and Entrepreneurship at McGill University. From 19 to 22, he worked with a growing fashion startup, gaining hands-on experience across nearly every area of the business while continuing to explore projects of his own. He later spent a year in project management at a consumer-packaged goods company, an experience that ultimately confirmed that a traditional corporate path wasn't where he wanted to build his career. He was most energized by creating, experimenting, solving problems, and turning ideas into reality.
Finding the Right Fit
His global perspective was shaped early. Growing up in a home that welcomed boarders from around the world gave Raphaël a firsthand appreciation for different cultures, languages, and the impact that a welcoming environment can have on someone's life. His passion for travel has taken him across North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, including Japan, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco, New Zealand, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and the Czech Republic. He has a particular love for Vancouver and British Columbia, as well as the outdoors, hiking, and spending time in nature.
Why He Does This Today
Outside of work, Raphaël enjoys tree planting, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts, anime, and card games , interests that reflect his appreciation for strategy, discipline, creativity, and community.
Today, Raphaël leads strategy, marketing, and operations at Bravo Langues. He brings together his business experience, creative mindset, and global perspective to help ensure that the people who need the program can find it, connect with it, and successfully make their way through it.
At the heart of what he does is something that has always motivated him: building something useful, bringing people together, and creating opportunities that genuinely make a difference.
Why choose Bravo Langues?
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Every teacher is personally trained by Alice in her method. Each one is hand-picked, vetted, and reviewed before leading a class, so the quality holds whether you're taught by Alice or one of her team.
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Our core program takes you from absolute beginner to exam-ready B2 across 80 hours of structured class time, broken into clear stages so you always know what's next.
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Every student starts with a free assessment. From there, you get a plan built around your actual level and goals.
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A community of learners from around the world, all working toward the same goal: building a life in Canada.
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Practice Beyond the Program.
Complimentary practice access with real teachers after your paid hours end, so momentum doesn't stall before exam day. ( 3 extra months of daily practice if you sign up for 3 or 4 levels)
