sfmacaws
Dec 18, 2004, 11:57 AM
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Re: [patricio_lintz] Guadalajara language school
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I thought it was excellent. After the first day, I extended my time to 2 weeks. There's a discount if you sign up for multiple weeks and I felt I would get a lot more out of it. I think that it maybe went over my max by about 3 days. I'm retired and getting up to an alarm and having homework every night got old after about 10 days.
I was very impressed with my teacher and the small size of the classes. The largest class I was in (for 2 days) had 5 people. Then I was moved up a bit and there was only one other person in the class. The last week, I was the only one in my class so basically got private lessons for the cost of group lessons.
It was 4 hours a day and there was homework every night. The school is in the centro (as you know, but thought I'd add this for others) and it is within walking distance of the San Jose de Dios mercado, the cathedral, government building and all the plazas downtown. They have a computer lab and some other stuff to do that I passed on. Most of the foreign students live with a host family but the majority of the students are locals taking intensive english classes.
We moved through a lot of information quickly but the books were good and the exercises helped. Most of the classroom time was conversation, almost all explanations and teaching was in spanish.
It was a good push for me, I've been kind of lax at expanding my spanish. I finally had to learn several more tenses and I am trying to integrate them into my conversations so they will stick. If I keep forcing myself to use the new stuff I think my spanish will improve, if I don't then I'll still be stuck in stupid and living only in the present tense.
There is no substitute for working at it but the school gave me a lot of stuff to work on and the explanations were excellent. My plan is to let it all sink in while using it as much as possible and then perhaps go back for another round, perhaps next year.
Jonna - Mérida, Yucatán
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