The 13th writes the world's cities on its towers: launched in 1969 on the old Gobelins freight yard, the Olympiades are named Tokyo, Helsinki, Mexico or Sapporo — and seeking a bed in a shared room in this polyglot arrondissement is logically done in two languages: the bilingual request reaches twice the households.
One request, two versions: the method that doubles the audience
Write the same bed in a shared room request in French then in English: assigned bed and storage, furnished room with a stated headcount, flat in share, one lease the whole household signs — a monthly share, charges comprised, calendar, notice. The 13th's francophone and international flatshares will each read their version, and your profile will stand out twice from the day's board of requests.
One amount in every language: the 13th's rate per bed
Amounts start at €600 and file under €1,000 per head, in monthly payment, all in — and the 13th camps in the lower half: Olympiades and Nationale very affordable, Butte-aux-Cailles and the BnF's surroundings a notch above. The LocService translation: the average entire room says €744 per month, bills included — the bed share announces below it, month's total displayed, and the offers to read across confirm the level, whatever the language.
Exchange students, doctoral researchers, newcomers: the file that travels
Paris Cité, Tolbiac, the BnF's laboratories and the sector's schools churn whole cohorts from elsewhere: the 13th knows how to read an international file. Yours needs little: Visale — requested online, from abroad included —, enrolment certificate or contract, firm dates, and the co-signed mobility lease that fits the semester, one month to ten, no deposit. Two languages, one file: that is the whole method.
Hosts of the 13th, your bed in a shared room can welcome the whole world? This page's flatmate candidates sometimes write it in two languages — dates, monthly all-in share, study rhythm — and replying in French or in English opens the same widened choice to you, commission-free.
Frequently asked questions
Post your request in French, in English, or both?
Both, without hesitation: the French version reassures local households, the English one opens the international flatmates' households in the towers and on the campuses. Ten translated lines are enough — the budget, the dates and the Visale are understood as they are.
What is it about the 13th, exactly, that eases international arrivals?
The habit of welcoming: shops and services in several languages, cosmopolitan campuses and laboratories, flatshares seasoned in files from elsewhere. You settle in without a manual — and the rents leave margin for the rest of life.
An exchange student at Paris Cité: which calendar to announce?
Your semester's, as the university sets it: « 1 February to 30 June », arrival included. The district's flatshares have timed their rooms to these rotations for years; a clear end date beats every long speech.
A file built abroad: what to translate, what to leave as is?
Translate the essentials onto one page — identity, status, resources, dates — and leave official documents in their language with that summary as a cover. Visale, for its part, already speaks French: it is your key local document.
A host in the 13th: does replying in English truly widen the choice?
Markedly: you double the pool of serious flatmate candidates — researchers, exchange students, young international workers — while changing nothing else. Three sentences of simple English suffice; the lease will be French anyway.
