Most Spanish courses treat the classroom as the place where learning happens and the outside world as where you eventually test it. We think that order is the wrong way round, and Sucre is a good place to prove it.
The city is part of the learning environment
Sucre is a walkable city with a historic centre, markets, plazas and cafés where people have time to talk. That matters for a learner: the situations where you need Spanish are a few minutes away, they repeat every day, and they are low-stakes enough to try something new in.
Using the language, not only studying it
Learning a language and using a language are different skills, and the second one is the harder of the two to practise alone. Our approach is to prepare something specific with you and then give you the opportunity to use it with people who are not your teacher — because that is the moment when a phrase stops being vocabulary and becomes language you own.
Ordinary situations make good lessons
Buying fruit, asking where something is, explaining what you want in a shop, following a conversation at the next table: these are unglamorous and they are exactly what makes someone comfortable in a language. They are also honest feedback. If you were understood, you were understood.
Language and place together
Learning Spanish here means getting to know Sucre at the same time, and the two reinforce each other. The more of the city you understand, the more there is to talk about; the more Spanish you have, the more of the city opens up.
If this sounds like the way you would want to learn, write to us and tell us a little about your Spanish and your plans.
