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Learn Spanish in Cartagena in Colombia
  

Tuition Programs

• 1 lesson: 45 minutes
• Minimum age: 16
• Schedule: from 8:00 or 9:00 depending on the program chosen.
• Maximum 5 students per class
• All levels available
• Test and certificate of attendance
• School materials
• Internet and Email access
• 20 lessons per week: please choose:
   - Español y Baile (Spanish and dance). 20 hours per week. 10 hours of Spanish lessons, 5 hours of Merengue and Salsa dancing lessons and 5 hours of cultural activities to get to know Cartagena it's History and Culture. From 10 am to 12m and from 13:00 to 14:00pm. Twice a week cultural activities in the afternoon.
   - Español general (General Spanish). 20 hours per week. 15 hours of Spanish lessons and 5 hours of cultural activities to get to know Cartagena it's History and Culture. From 9am to 12m. Twice a week cultural activities in the afternoon. 
   
• Co-op program: Español y voluntariado (Spanish and volunteer social work). 32 hours per week. 15 hours of Spanish lessons, 12 hours of volunteer work at a recognized charity of Cartagena and 5 hours of cultural activities to get to know Cartagena it's History and Culture. From 9am to 12m. Twice a week cultural activities in the afternoon. Volunteer work three times a week from 13:00 to 17:00 
   
• 25 lessons per week: Español Intensivo (Intensive Spanish). 25 hours per week. 20 hours of Spanish lessons and 5 hours of cultural activities to get to know Cartagena it's History and Culture. From 9am to 12m and 13:00 to 14:00 pm. Twice a week cultural activities in the afternoon.
   
• Private course: 15, 20 or 25 lessons per week. Additional per week, 5 lessons (2 x 2H30) cultural activities.

UPON REQUEST:

Starting Dates

• Every Monday

Closing Dates
The school is open all year round.

Options Available

• Airport transfer, one way: 20$US. 
   
• Our prices are available from January 1st to December 31. These prices never include the Air Fare.

Additionnal info on
Español y voluntariado (proyecto social) : Español y voluntariado es un curso en la mañana de español general EG15 con voluntariado en las tardes, un orfanato, ancianato u organización caritativa. Este curso es para personas profesionales que desean hacer un voluntariado en el extranjero mientras mejoran su español.

It includes 32 hours per week: 15 hours of Spanish lessons, 12 hours of volunteer work at a recognized charity and 5 hours of cultural activities to get to know Colombia, its History and Culture. From 9am to 12pm. Twice a week, cultural activities in the afternoon. Volunteer work three times a week from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 

In Cartagena, the name of the non profit organization we work with is Fundafamiliar. Students will be able to go there in the afternoons. 

Fundafamiliar is a place for young boys, who have been living on the streets or had problems at home. The maximum stay for a child or teenager is four months. During that time the personnel of the center prepare the boys to come back home, meanwhile it’s still possible. When this is not possible they are sent to another institution for longer stays. There are 23 beds in the center, which are always busy. A psychologist visits the center three times a week, either for individual appointments or family therapies. Because of the short stay of the kids, it is hard to organize the academic role of these children. 

Besides, they are only allowed to leave under a center’s worker supervision. Thais is why Fundafamiliar is a good place for people with ideas and abilities, who can help to entertain, take care, bring up and educate these kids. This center is usually the first place that children with social problems visit in Cartagena, so developing a normal friendship with them can help them to carry on and sustain balance within the system, keeping them out of the streets.

RATES

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Enrolment fees (once): 40$US
(will be charged when registration for courses beginning less than 3 months before your arrival date)

Family, apartment accommodation.

• Sunday arrival
• Saturday departure. 
   
• Family single or double occupancy bedroom, 1 or 2 meals per day. Laundry service once a week. Possibility to get a private bathroom.

• Luxury apartment: for 1 or 2 persons. No meals. Price per apartment.
  
  Placement fee (once): 90$US

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!

Cartagena

	Teachers
Jesus Pedraza			Ricardo Macía
	Students

City information

Our school of the Caribbean is located in the City of Cartagena. You don´t know the Caribbean until you know Cartagena; be prepared to meet the friendliest people of the world, live a musical athmosphere, eat an extraordinary and varied food, take the sun in astonishing beaches and dive near beatifull coral reefs,hear stories of pirates, slaves  and sank  spanish ships ,visit  natural parks, live the Rumba ( Party!) in the beach  and enjoy the best weather.

Cartagena is a UNESCO World Heritage City, and on the “must see” lists of millions of world travellers. Ramparts and walls, were built all around the city in order to protect it from pirate attacks. Now, nearly 500 years old, this majestic city on the South-western Caribbean, retains much the charm, history, architecture, romance and adventure of days gone by.

Near By Cartagena is located the famous Rosary Island Natural Park, which is a group of coral Islands with the best beaches near Cartagena. Only 40 minutes from Cartagena is the Totumo swamp which is a shallow fresh water lake besides the sea, this is a paradiasic please where a huge variety of migratory and non migratory bird nest being a delight for tourist and locals. There you can take a bath into the crater of a volcano, a mud volcano that´s famous for being good for the skin. Other thing that you should do is to visit the charming restaurants and clubs inside of the so called old city.

Our school is located just 4 blocks from the main entrance to the "old City" in a colonial house with a Caribbean atmosphere that you will love. 

Forts and Castles: Forts and castles were strategically built around Cartagena to defend its inhabitants from the continuous attacks of English and French pirates who, well aware of all the new lands had to offer, sailed the Caribbean in search of treasure. Spanish military engineer Bautiste Antonelli reached Cartagena in 1589 and started on the construction of the monumental works that today constitute an example of the military architecture of the period. The forts of San José and San Sebastián and the castles of San Felipe de Barajas and San Fernando y las Bóvedas are still standing today.

 A respected historian of the 20^th. Century, Englishman, Arnold Toynbee, said, as he inspected the fortifications and ramparts of Cartagena: “This is the reason that South America does not speak English”.

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