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Learn Spanish in Oaxaca in Mexico

The school is a vast property with its host house, its patio, its gardens. It is situated 15 minutes walking distance from the central market, not far also from Santo Domingo church and the central pedestrian area. Our school, an island of greenery in downtown Oaxaca.

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 50 minutes
• Minimum age: 17
• Schedule: from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
• The school recommend to arrive on Friday in order to pass the language test on Saturday. 
• School material included for 4 weeks session. After four weeks and if needed, each book will be 15$US per book.
• Inter-cultural evening (films, concerts, newsgroup).
• Maximum 8 students per class.
• All levels available.
• The program is completed by 2 hours daily for practical exercises (Monday thru Thursday) on many subjects such as local cuisine, dance, movies, pottery, weaving machine, and 1 hour daily with a student from Oaxaca in order to exchange points of view on different subjects

• Test and certificate of linguistic training

• Lot of possible excursions on site: see below on this page

Starting Dates

  * 5 weeks session
  ** Christmas course, 4 weeks.

School closing dates

Available options

• Airport transfer to accommodation: 40$US
• Recommended airport Oaxaca via Mexico
   
• Our prices are available from January 1st to Dec 31, 2008. These prices never include the Air Fare.

RATES

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Accommodation: Family , Posada or hotels.

• Arrival on Sunday. 
• Departure on Saturday. 
• In family, single or double occupancy, 2 or 3 meals per day.
  Price per day:
                     18$US (breakfast)
                     23$US (breakfast and lunch)
                     27$US (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
   
• In Posada, 3 minutes walking distance from school, Each room will have its own bathroom, a fridge and a sink. Single or double occupancy. No meal. TV and terrace for all tenants.
  Price per day if staying for less than 8 days: 30$US single occupancy, 22US double occupancy (price per person) 
  Price per day if staying over than 7 days: 20$US single occupancy, 16$US double occupancy (price per person) 
   
• In hotel, please give us your budget (price wished per day and per room) and the school will choose accordingly. Price per night between 30$US and 250$US (from 1 to 5 stars hotels).

Our greeting families are recruited with great care. The criteria of selection are very rigorous and each family must satisfy a precise schedule of conditions: 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 !

City information.

The state of OAXACA is rural and mountainous. Its villages of altitude shelter the descendants of the zapothèques and Mixtèques and 1/5 of the population speaks only the Indian language. In spite of mining resources like oil, the coal, the money, the copper and of the agricultural resources like the culture of the coffee, it is one of the poorest states of the country.
Capital of the homonymous state on the plate to 1460 m of altitude, encircled by the nodes of the south of the Madre sierra. Sunday the Indians flow to the market of the colonial city to sell worked leathers, embroidered blouses and wool ponchos. This city remained typically provincial, with the colonial charm, located at the heart of the one of the most beautiful regions of Mexico. Sat with the terrace of a coffee or well in the pleasant garden which brightens it, you will take a walkabout among the townsmen, the peasants, the merchants of sarapes and rebozos and the street pedlars who will praise you the merits of the indigenous pharmacy. Not far from Zocalo, is the church of Santo Domingo, jewel baroque, whose Dominican convent was transformed into museum.Moreover surroundings are rich in archaeological sites of civilizations Zapotèques and Mixtèques.

EXCURSIONS:

On the weekend, students are provided with the opportunity to experience today´s indigenous culture outside the city of Oaxaca. Weekend tours, led by a bilingual guide, visit archaeological sites, indigenous markets and artisan villages around the central valley of Oaxaca. The tours are optional and are available at an additional cost of  US$15 - US$18. Some of the destinations include the following:

Monte Albán: The largest archaeological site in the state of Oaxaca, Monte Alban is a Zapotec ceremonial center that experienced its splendor from 200-800 AD. The murals and funerary urns of the tombs found on this site are considered some of the richest art finds in the world.

Mitla: This archaeological site was originally a Zapotec burial ground, but was then conquered by the Mixtecs in 1250 AD. It is renowned for its stone mosaics and Spanish chapel built from stones taken from the Mixtec buildings on the site.

Tlacolula: This village is home to one of the largest indigenous markets in Mexico and is an excellent place to buy artesanias or simply watch Zapotecs make their weekly purchases. In addition to the colorful, bustling market, Tlacolula is famous for its cathedral.

Teotitlán: This Zapotec village is world famous for its weavings. The wool is hand-carded and on many occasions only natural dyes are used. Students can observe weavers who still employ traditional techniques to produce Zapotec designs in their woven rugs.

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