Yet another interesting goal for the medium future

I got a lot of good ideas resulting from the trip to Australia. Some of them are still bubbling into full sentences and one just emerged.

I have been reading French newspapers and magazines for years. I can now follow RFI broadcasts with decent success, but it helps that each is based on news so I can anticipate certain words I might not know otherwise. I can even speak French, but usually I need to be drunk to feel fluent. All the French kids from the hostel in Sydney noticed this too.

I want to get more practice with my spoken French, particularly in a business setting. I don't want to wind up in a classroom full of teachers where I sound fine but still cannot explain geek stuff to a fellow geek in the francophone world. I also don't think Quebec can offer me the business French skill set I seek because they have a completely different bureaucratese than the European world.

I've been researching some programs to attend as a vacation next year (say, in the spring). They have business immersion courses littered through France: Paris of course, Nice, Bordeaux. It would be nice to do something outside Paris so that I can stay immersed and away from tourists when I'm not in the classroom.

Does anyone have any advice? I know moominmolly worked in France for a while so I would like to poke her brain about this concept. Anyone else have advice (say, a program to avoid or accreditations to seek)?

-un question de la communication, Dante