I just want to learn French.  I'm doing an Open University degree and want to get some practice in.

what major are you going to study? or you're just wanna learn french there?

use you irish charm ;)

you can try l'alliance française 

Hmmm.. I am not so sure then. Because what I am applying is call " classe de préparatoire" in private school. You can choose a city where you wanna be first, and choose the language school for study French a year. There are many such kinds of school.