Welcome! ¡Bienvenidos a
WEEKEND
en español®!
¡Para
aprender, nunca es tarde!
We are a full-service Spanish language
school
located in the heart of San Francisco!
We are celebrating 25 consecutive years
of successful business!
Founded in 1988 |
We are educators dedicated to providing you with natural, whole language immersion experiences that make leaning Spanish rewarding, satisfying, and fun, while you are achieving real linguistic goals. Our teachers come from many countries and backgrounds, and have the common goal of helping you achieve fluency. We are based in San Francisco, California and Oaxaca, Mexico, but we will travel to your site if you have a group! We offer uniquely fun and challenging spanish courses: WEEKEND en español® total immersion Spanish Retreats, WEEKEND Half-Day and Full-Day Spanish Workshops, weekday and evening SMALL GROUP CLASSES, private lessons and custom corportate packages. We also offer conversation parties, trips abroad, and educational materials (see below)--all for the student seeking to learn Spanish, to strengthen communication skills, for work here and abroad and for the joy of personal saitisfaction in increased self-expression and communication.
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Choose one or more of our Classes,
Workshops or Immersion Programs
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WEEKEND en español Retreats |
The Premier Program that made us famous
Come to our WEEKEND
en español® Retreats and experience
Spanish IMMERSION at it’s best! We conduct WEEKEND en español® total immersion Spanish Retreats throughout the year in Northern California at beautiful Point Reyes, or at a site of your choosing. Programs are available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, and also provide special offerings for Medical Spanish for health care providers. Our Retreats vary from 2- to 4-day get-aways. No English allowed! Absolutely nothing works
as well as SUSTAINED PRACTICE to obtain new language skills, confidence
and FLUENCY. And when you immerse yourself for three days straight
using Spanish for all your interactions, it becomes a part of you!
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New for Advanced Students |
New! For Advanced Students
¡Círculo de Lectores! Participants
select texts to read and discuss, for literary, linguistic, cultural,
and thematic explorations. Meets once a month, for 4 half-day
sessions.
¡Círculo de Escritores! Participants
work on writing and editing their own material. Meets once a month,
for 4 half-day sessions.
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Weekly Daytime and Evening
Group
Classes |
Our Popular Weekly Classes
Meet once
a week for a Weekly Daytime and Evening Group Classes for an hour and a half. We offer eight different skill levels,
from New Beginners to Advanced. Our classes are conversation-based,
moving you towards fluency by teaching you to think and speak in
Spanish right from the first day. Grammar, reading, and writing
are important parts of our work together, but speaking is always
primary.
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Half Day and Full Day Workshops
Workshops Schedule |
Our Weekend Workshops
Take a WEEKEND en español® Half-Day or Full-Day
Workshop to jump-start your skills,
or get back into Spanish after years of absence! These Workshops meet on
Saturdays or Sundays -- every WEEKEND we have something going on!
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Oaxaca Immersion Program |
Live and Learn in Oaxaca!
Enroll in our SEMANA en español™ Oaxaca Immersion Program and LIVE THE LANGUAGE and culture as you study with us at our own private
residence in beautiful, colonial Oaxaca, Mexico. There's no place like Oaxaca (pronounced WA-HA-CA), once the ancient center of zapoteca and
mixteca cultures. See stunning and unique archeological sites of Monte Albán and Mitla. Visit one of the world’s leading Unesco cities declared Patrimonio de la Humanidad. Do it with the experts!
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Private
Lessons |
Our Private Lessons
Meet here
one-on-one for a Private Lesson with one of our instructors for intensive and rapid progress.
Come once, or schedule a regular meeting time - calendar allowing,
any time of the day or evening, and for any length of time.
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Medical
Spanish Workshops
Medical Workshops Schedule |
Our Medical Spanish Offerings
Attend a One-Day Medical Spanish workshop which will help you deliver services and communicate with the growing number of Latinos clients. Alternativly we can work on a contract basis at your site, and our materials are available
for purchase. Medical Spanish is a specialty of ours--we offer general Medical Spanish Workshops, and also ObGyn/midwifery Workshops and Workshops for Mental Health Workers, providing specific medical vocabulary covering a wide range of medical issues and insight for working with the Latino community. We also offer Medical Spanish group classes every Saturday!
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Custom
Programs |
Have it Your Way - Custom Programs
Allow us to design
a Custom Program for your group, company,
or non-profit - at your site or ours. We can help you to meet your long-term or short-term
goals for cultural and linguistic competency. |
Sign-up
Form for any of our Programs |
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