Most people who come to Sucre to learn Spanish can already say more than they think. What they cannot do yet is say it to a stranger, at normal speed, when it matters. That gap is what this program is built to close.
Your morning is a lesson. Your afternoon is the city.
How a day works
Four hours of lessons each morning, one to one with a teacher from Sucre. You spend them preparing one real situation — buying fruit, asking for directions, explaining what you need at a pharmacy, making small talk with someone who asks where you are from. You get the words, the phrases, and the two or three things that usually go wrong.
In the afternoon you go out and do it. Not a role-play in a classroom: the central market, a café on the plaza, a shop on Calle Potosí. Five afternoons, five missions a week.
Your teacher goes with you. Every time. Not watching from across the square — beside you, ready to step in when you get stuck and to let you struggle for a few seconds first, which is usually where the learning happens. Nobody is sent out alone to sink.
You come back with what happened: what worked, what you did not catch, what the person said that you were not expecting. The next morning starts there. That is the part that makes it stick.
Who it suits
Anyone from complete beginner upward. If you have never spoken a word of Spanish, your first mission is small and your teacher carries most of it. By the end of the week you are doing the talking. If you already manage, the missions get harder quickly — asking for something that is not available, sorting out a problem, holding a conversation that goes somewhere you did not plan.
What you need to know
Twenty hours of lessons a week, always one to one, never a group. The schedule is built around your stay rather than a fixed timetable, so tell us your dates and what you want to get out of them.
Write to us and we will tell you what is possible for the dates you have in mind.
