Learn Spanish in
Bariloche, Patagonia in ARGENTINA
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Group courses of 20
or 30 lessons
per week, 25 lessons per week (20 group + 5
private), private tuition, TANGO or SALSA classes, Spanish and SKI. |
Our school is conveniently located in
downtown Bariloche, only 200 meters from the Centro Civico. All bus
lines stop very close to the school, not more than 2 blocks away.
Our staff is a team of committed
professionals whose main goal is to ensure that students make true progress
in their learning. This commitment goes beyond learning the language: they
will do their best to make you feel at home, and help you enjoy this
wonderful place: San Carlos de Bariloche.
Tuition program
- 1 lesson: 55 minutes (group tuition). Private
tuition: 45 minutes
- Minimum age: 18
- Schedule: from 9 AM
- All levels available.
- Maximum 6 students per class.
- School materials.
- Cafeteria
.
- Internet and email available.
- Test and certificate of language training
issued by the Buenos Aires University.
- Numerous social and cultural
activities organized by the school 2 times a week, included in all programs.
- Spanish and TANGO or SALSA: 20 language lessons
per week + 8 lessons on TANGO or SALSA dance per week (theoritical and Dance).
You'll learn about the history of the Argentine dance, its language and
steps. During the Spanish course you will learn about the history,
culture, and tradition that surrounds the Tango or SALSA, in particular the
language -lunfardo-, costumes, and the philosophy which characterizes
its people.
- SKI lovers with an interest in learning Spanish
will fi nd this program perfect. The program includes 16 Group Lessons + 2
private lessons + transfer in/out to the ski center + 3 ski days per week (2
passes included, one during the week and one during the weekend).
- City tour.
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Starting dates
Every Monday of the year.
School closing dates
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March |
May |
June |
July |
August |
October |
December |
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1,25 |
19 |
9 |
21 |
16 |
8,25 and 2/01/09 |
Available options
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Airport transfer: 45$US one way.
- All our rates are valid
from January 1st till December 31st,
2008
and never include the plane ticket.
PHOTOS REPORT of Patagonia and San Carlos de Bariloche
Our school is ideally located in the center of
Bariloche, in only 200 metres of Centro Civico. All the bus services
stop very near the school, no more than 2 corners.
It is also a centre of education of English for the Argentine students.
Our staff is a team of professionals, of which the ultimate purpose is
to make sure that the students make the true progress in the language
learning. This commitment goes beyond the study of the language: they
will do their best to make you feel "home" and to help you to like this
magnificent place, San Carlos of Bariloche.
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Accommodation in family
or residence.
- Arrival Sunday,
- Departure Saturday
- Family,
single or double * occupancy bedroom, 1 or 2 meals per day. 15 to 30 minutes
by public transportation to the school. No meal privided on Sunday.
* for 2 students travelling together.
- Residence.
Standard accommodation, if you prefer to stay with people and
experience life, this is probably your best option.
This type of accommodation is perfect if you want to immerse yourself in
Argentinean life. Here you will be able to make friends with
local people, socialise in the many Argentinean bars and nightclubs and
live in a more relaxed and free environment.
For students, the main advantage of this type of accommodation is
your independence and being able to participate in many social activities.
You will get to know lots of people and share in a number of events and
parties.
NO MEAL PROVIDED ON SUNDAY
Placement fee (once): 75$US
FAMILY, single occupancy: 150$US
/ week (1meal per day)
195$US /
week (2 meals per day)
Additional day: 40$US
FAMILY, double occupancy:
110$US
/ week (1 meal per day)
155$US /
week (2 meals per day)
Additional day: 40$US
Additional premium family accommodation, superior comfort, higher standard
of living, private bathroom: + 50$US per week to prices above.
RESIDENCE, single occupancy:
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160$US / week (no meal)
175$US / week (1 meal per day)
225$US / week (2 meals per day)
Additional day: 40$US
RESIDENCE,
double occupancy:
*
95$US / week (no meal)
110$US / week (1 meal per day)
160$US / week (2 meals per day)
Additional day: 40$US
RESIDENCE,
triple occupancy:
*
75$US / week (no meal)
90$US / week (1 meal per day)
140$US / week (2 meals per day)
Additional day: 40$US
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During the high season June 1st to August 31st please add 80$US per week
to all
residence
prices above
Our greeting families are
recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous
and each family must satisfy a precise conditions of contract: :
excellent morality, desire to communicate with their host, satisfactory
social standing. We should specify that the families will only speak
with you the language of the country where you will be. It is the
principle of the immersion courses!
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One of the cities and tourist centre the most important of Argentina
Bariloche in the heart of Patagonia and the most important city of the
Río Negro province. It is situated in 770 metres above the sea level and
in 1650 km from Buenos Aires. It offers excellent conveniences and
services to more than 650.000 guests every year.
Information about the city
 San
Carlos of Bariloche, city of 80 000 inhabitants, is situated on the south
bank of the lake Nahuel Huapi in the national park of the same name.
It is a mountain station, famous for the colour of lake waters and the going
downhill stars every winter its snowy hillsides.
The National park Nahuel Huapi is the first Argentine national park, lakes
and mountains are the main characteristics.
These mountains offer varied ski tracks which goes from the beginner to the
expert.
Shops abound in sports material of the last shout. You will be able to equip
yourselves "from head to feet" if you wish to.
Bariloche, it is "Switzerland" of Argentina, on one hand because of its
previous history (immigration of the Swiss, Germans and Austrians) on the
other hand by its physical and geographic aspect; Small wooden chalets at
the edge of lakes, close to snowing summits where you'll ski !! amazing.......
And moreover, Bariloche is the centre of chocolate production, ......it
reminds us our neighbours of the Alps (with something different, you are in
Argentina do not forget it)
For the amateurs of nice evenings, you will find numerous bars and
discotheques there.
What to see
The Museum of Patagonia with its collection of awkward animals,
recollections of the expeditions of pacification (in front of local Indians),
geologic samples, objects of the Indian groups of the region (Vuriloche,
Poya, Pampa, Huiliche, Puelche, Tehuelche, Fuegien, Pehuenche).
From Bariloche:
You can discover the peninsula Llao llao, the Cerro Lopez and its panorama
on the lake Nahuel Huapi and Moreno, and the Cerro Campanario which we climb
in chairlift to discover a tremendous panorama on Andes summits of the
surroundings.
The road of 7 lakes between El Portezuelo and Villa Angostura, forests of
Coihues ( local beech) and Patagonian landscapes.
Isla Victoria, a reserve of 3700 hectares on the lake of Nahuel Huapi,
forested and animal reserve (red deer)
The crossing of lakes towards Chile:
From Bariloche can be made the circuit of the " crossing of lakes "
alternation of routes by the road and crossings by boats which allows to
join the lake Todos los santos and the city of Puerto Varas or Puerto Montt
in Chile.
The landscapes, typical of Andes Patagonia are really beautiful.
Weather forecast for the 5 coming days
Time and temperature in San Carlos de Bariloche 
THE EXPLORATORY EXPEDITIONS
At this end of XV ° century, before the roundness was "accepted" by the
religious authorities, we find to the rank of the navigators, the
geographers and the other cosmographes a lot of persuaded men that the
world is not a flat disc, below whom the other men would walk upside
down.
So, convinced as he can reach India by making road towards Ponant,
Colombus will come to stumble over a string of islands (current the
Bahamas Islands). The earth which the navigator accosted in 1492 was not
that of India, but that of new continent: America. Colombus will not
thus have opened a new spice route; on the other hand, he offers to the
Spanish crown a continent, men, wealth who will be conquered, subjected
and exhausted in some decades only.
In 1494, both Iberian realms have appeal to the arbitrage of the Pope to
settle the commercial and territorial conflicts which set them. The
Treaty of Tordesillas divides the world into two, by an imaginary line
situated in 370 leagues on the West Cape Verde Islands. Lands discovered
east of this line will return to Portugal, those were situated on the
West in Spain.
Some years later, in 1497, the navigator Vasco de Gama doubles the
current Cap of Good Hope, crosses Indian Ocean and reaches India. For
some years, Portugal will hold the monopoly of the maritime business
with India.
On September 20th, 1513, Spanish Vasco Nuñez de Balboa discovers the Sea
of the South (Pacific Ocean) having crossed on foot the isthmus of
Darién (current Panama). From there to think that beyond this ocean, in
some hundreds miles of the American coasts, is Moluques, these famous
islands with renown spices, there is only a step, that Ferdinand de
Magellan, small Portuguese local country squire, crossed easily. Little
worried of opening a spice route by the West, Portugal abandons Magellan
and its project to Spain. Charles the Fifth thus confides to the
Portuguese renegade the command of a fleet of five vessels...
... On September 20th, 1519, the squadron sails of San Lucar, near
Cadix. On October 21st of the next year, it undertakes in what seems to
be a pass; informed readings, sailors' stories, confidences of
cosmographes, it seems that Magellan suspected the existence of such a
passage. It is about the Strait of the All Saints' Day, today the Strait
of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Oceans and the Pacific. Port,
on the coast of Terra Australis Incognita, rise here and there columns
of smoke; this earth will be Tierra de Humos, renamed Tierra del Fuego
by Charles the Fifth. Three years after leaving Spain, having crossed
the Pacific, had reached islands of spices and having by-passed Africa,
so making the first one circumnavigation of the History, Victoria, only
surviving vessel of the fleet, gets back to its port of registry without
Magellan, killed on an island close to Moluques.
During several decades, the road discovered by Magellan will be borrowed
only by privateers, English for the greater part. They skimmed the
Pacific coast to Mexico, plundering in a systematic way places and
Spanish galleons. In 1578, during one of these campaigns, Francis
Drake's vessel is pushed away beyond 56 ° south parallel by one of these
tremendous southern storms. He is credibly the first navigator to have
doubled current Cape Horn. The discovery of this new road free of the
Spanish influence, will be considered secret by Elizabeth I of England.
So, in 1616, Schouten will appropriate the merit to have discovered this
rocky cape, that he believed to be a cap and that he will name Cap
Hoorn, in homage to the Dutch city where he was born.
Meanwhile, Spain will have in vain tried to assert its sovereign power
on the Strait of Magellan. In 1580, the Captain General Sarmiento de
Gamboa takes the head of the vastest company of colonization. It is a
question of implanting a permanent colony in the strategic places of the
strait; in the oriental entrance will be set up "Nombre de Jesus" and in
the crossroads of the strait, in the South of the current peninsula of
Brunswick, will be built "Ciudad del Rey Felipe". Disappeared into sea,
even before having reached the strait, harassed by Indian, decimated by
the mutinies, eaten away by the famine and mined by an inhospitable
climate, some thousands of men and 25 vessels of the expedition will end
there.
Some times later, the English privateer Thomas Cavendish arrived in the
bay of San Juán, in front of Ciudad del Rey Felipe. The sinister
spectacle which offers itself in his eyes will make him rename the place
Port Famine (Puerto del Hambre).
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SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS
Will follow in XVII ° and XIX ° centuries expeditions of scientific
investigation, those of Louis Antoine de Bougainville (on 1764 and
1766-1768), James Cook (on 1768-1771 and 1775), Jules Dumont d' Urville
( 1837-1840 ), the most known being the one that will make the young
person Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle between 1832 and 1834....
...Commanded by Fitz Roy, "Beagle" had among others missions the hydro
statement of the coasts of Patagonia... Beagle left its name with the
canal which lines the south coast of Tierra del Fuego, Fitz Roy left its
name with one of the Andes summits the most known, as for Darwin, he
left his name with a theory which let him say, expressing himself about
Indian met in the canals of Patagonia: " I did not imagine how much is
enormous the difference which separates the wild man of the civilized
man, the difference certainly bigger than the one who exists between the
wild animal and the pet ..... "
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