TOTAL IMMERSION PROGRAM

Highly motivated Students and Teachers!

     You know the incredible rewards of learning a foreign language!... Better business, smarter and more rewarding vacations, new career and job opportunities, to be professionally competitive, to obtain stability, more productive travel time, new friendships.......Whether for travel, business, study or entertainment, conversing in a foreign language will open up whole new worlds to you, and now Guatemalensis Spanish School makes learning the Spanish language simpler and faster than you ever thought possible!....The best of our experience in Spanish language teaching for you!......and because you don't want to lose your time and money!

     Our Program is designed to build the proficiency from beginner to intermediate and to advanced learners of Spanish. Learning a language is a lifelong journey enhanced by goals, openness to new experiences and cultures, and knowledge of your unlimited potential. It is made up of many possible directions and strategies that can be learned and implemented in numerous ways. By personalizing and combining successful strategies and the activities in Guatemalensis Spanish School, students can build advanced communicative proficiency, gaining the tools and confidence needed for a lifetime of language learning. We will be building your listening, reading, speaking, writing, grammar, vocabulary and cross-cultural skills.

    The GSS Total Immersion Program permits you to obtain a learning of the Spanish Language of excellent quality, to be fluent in your new language, and to deeply grasp its grammar. Besides, you get to know the real Guatemalan Culture and lifestyle.

    Language study and Culture Immersion will quickly improve your skills to communicate with fluency. With our experience, methods, techniques, and materials, we guarantee that you will develop and improve your writing, oral, reading, and comprehension abilities. In GSS, if you are self-motivated to learn and if you are ready to study, with our system, learning Spanish is very easy.

    According to the school's policy, at the end of your studies you will take a written and/or oral exam to evaluate your progress, this can be used for College and University undergraduate and graduate credits. Also, after completing our comprehensive program, you WILL speak a very good Spanish. At the end of your studies you will receive a signed and stamped Certificate and Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language.

   Every language is an expression of its respective culture; so, we teach the Spanish Language in connection with the guatemalan culture (mayan, spaniard and ladino or mestizo)

    Besides to teach to former students that want to master the language, we can teach to travellers that only want some basics of the language for enjoy more their travel. Many times we experience that the students fall in love with the language and culture that continue studying more.

    In our methodology, we use the personalized system of teaching, one student per one teacher, from beginners to very advanced students, so, you will be learning according to your objectives, interests, desires, personal level, etc. and based on a program and plan. One of the most practiced areas is the conversation as the basis of the communication. We don't rotate our teachers every week to ensure the continuity of the student's learning and to avoid waste of time by having to start over each week.

 

Our Program of Spanish Language is divided in three levels as follows:

    Beginner (Level A)   In this level our program will enable you with the enough knowledge and practice of the language to allow you  to perform in situations which require a basic and elementary use of the language.

 Intermediate (Level B)  In this level our program will enable you with the necessary knowledge and practice of the language to allow you to communicate in every day situations which don't require specialized vocabularies.  

 Advanced  (Level C)   In this level our program will enable you with the advanced knowledge and practice of the language to allow you to communicate in all situations which require specialized and advanced use and knowledge of the language and vocabularies in a cultural basis.  

School Hours, Monday to Friday

 8:00 -10:00        Classes (one to one)

10:00 -10:30      Break

10:30 -13:00       Classes (one to one)

13:00 -14:00      Lunch at the host family

14:00 - 18:00      Activities

Activities 

A "sample week" of extra curricular afternoon activities, is as follows:

MONDAY:          Tour to know our City.
TUESDAY:         Free for personal study, homework and/or personal time and relaxation.
WEDNESDAY:   Short outing, or Video/conference/Lecture about Guatemalan Culture & politics, or Social Work.
THURSDAY:      Free for personal study, homework and/or personal time and relaxation.

FRIDAY:             Trip to an indigenous Market or Guatemalan cooking class with dinner and party.

SATURDAY:     Tourist excursion or hiking to an active volcano, or trip to the beach, or Hot Springs, or visit an indigenous village, etc.
SUNDAY:           Free, for personal time and relaxation, or personal issues or personal trips.

Saturday

7:00 - 16:00      Excursions   

HOLIDAYS

There are no classes and activities during Guatemalan and International Holidays. The students must pay the complete week tuition.

Jan. 1st.            New Year's Day

March or April   Holy Thursday (mid-day), Holy Friday and Saturday

Sept.15th.          Independence Day of Guatemala

Dec. 24th.          Christmas Eve (mid-day)

Dec. 25th.          Christmas Day

Dec. 31st.           New Year's Eve (mid-day)

BOOKS

     In GSS there are a lot of different books for learn Spanish, learning materials, the Best Spanish grammar texts, workbooks, and literature for all levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced students, and for Spanish Professors. Also students can use their own books and materials. We recommend that you bring a good Spanish-English dictionary, ideally a University of Chicago pocket size edition. Stationery supplies are available in bookstores here so you need not bring them with you.

My experience with Guatemalensis Spanish School was very enriching.  The directors are extremely helpful and fun, and I learned so much Spanish in so little time.  I especially enjoyed the excursions the School organized in the afternoons and on the weekends.  They took us climbing up volcanoes, hiking down into lagoons, bathing in steam baths, etc..  I'm very satisfied with my experience at Guatemalensis!  Kelly Folliard, U.S.A.  

Who We Are

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