
Spanish Lessons in Cochabamba, Bolivia
1 - 12 weeks
None
All year
16+
320 EUR
Language Lessons
One-on-one Spanish language lessons in Cochabamba, Bolivia
From the beginning, the focus is on communication, employing techniques such as dialoguing, phrasing, conversation, exercises, pictures, radio, television, and other media. The teaching is direct, active, and requires intensive student participation. It is taught at all levels, from beginner through intermediate and advanced levels, including all the intermediate stages. An initial assessment of the current level is done at the beginning.
During the course of the program, you will have a one-to-one teacher. Only in rare cases are small groups taught together. There is a permanent rotation of the teacher, which means your teacher will change almost every day. The school has had good experiences with this approach because every teacher has their own teaching style and tools, besides varying professional backgrounds and life experiences. In this way, you have to adapt to a variety of speakers and methods, which the school found to be very useful. For beginners, teachers are chosen who also speak another foreign language that the student is familiar with, such as English, French or German, to be able to give instructions and explanations to people who don’t speak any Spanish.
Most of the teaching materials have been developed by the school itself. The director has been developing teaching methods for Spanish and Quechua for more than 30 years. The material provides insights into life in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Latin America. Sources include texts written by the director, history books, oral traditions, Bolivian and Latin-American literature, ethnology books, and various publications.
Following the specific interest of the student, special topics can be included in the teaching material, for instance, ecology, western and traditional medicine, Bolivian, Latin-American, and Spanish history and literature, technology, religion, geography, local culture, social, political, or economic questions.
The school also offers language lessons in the indigenous languages of Quechua and Aymara. These languages are very useful if you volunteer or do an internship with indigenous communities in rural Bolivia.
Weekly schedule of the language lessons
Typically, lessons are taught 20 hours per week, 4 hours per day from Monday to Friday (8:15-12:15 p.m. or 1:30-5:30 p.m. including a half-hour break). Alternatively, it is possible to do only ten hours per week and be flexible about the times, allowing for language lessons besides your internship or volunteer work. There are also super-intensive courses of more than 20 hours per week.
The school is open throughout the year, and lessons can start on every weekday, including Saturday. It is closed on official holidays, but lessons are given on alternative days in this case.
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What is included?
- One-to-one lessons with a professional language teacher
- Teaching materials
- A local contact person who takes you to your booked accommodation, accompanies you to your first language lesson, and is available for other matters during your time on-site
- 24-hour emergency availability of the local support team
- CO2 compensation of your long-haul flights: Costs for 10 seedlings of indigenous trees that we plant on the slopes of Kilimanjaro
Not included?
- Accommodation (can be booked separately)
- Travel to/from Bolivia (you book it on your own; we can assist you)
- Insurance (Travel Health Insurance, Liability Insurance, Travel Cancellation insurance; you book it on your own, we can assist you)
- Personal Expenses
- Vaccinations
- Local Transport
INSIGHT
this program
Language lessons individually tailored to your language skills
Flexible in terms of times
Possible to combine with volunteering and internships
Attractive location in the "City of Eternal Spring"
Flexible weekly amount of hours
Questions?
your consultant for this program is
Nicole Hantzsche
(she/her)
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