The Cornell School of Hotel Administration in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics offers a course in French for a small group of students who have had the equivalent of at least two semesters of college French. The course emphasizes oral/aural French with very little class time spent on grammar study. Grammar reviews and exercises are assigned and quizzes are given, but the students' greatest motivation for learning grammar comes with the realization of the usefulness of grammatical speech in the hotel profession. The basic text is a French textbook, patterned after French hotel-school manuals, which covers the various hotel services and courtesies. Supplementary hotel realia, slides collected in France, and videotaped advertisements are used by students to prepare conversations, and two professional publications are used for current information and vocabulary development. Students practice their skills in a campus hotel. Guest speakers and field trips to a French hotel in the United States are part of the curriculum, and a summer internship exchange program is being established. Instruction in cultural differences and French concepts of courtesy is included in the course. Part of the final exam is an oral proficiency interview by a teacher other than the course teacher. A more advanced course of the same type and a general business language course at a lower level are proposed, and a similar Spanish course is currently being developed. (MSE)