Part Time Spanish Course for Expat Residents in Panama

A Spanish Course for a better lifestyle

Speaking Spanish in Latin America changes peoples lives...

Reasons to learn Spanish if you relocate in Latin America: discover how learning Spanish will make your new life in Latin America a lot more rich and complete.

Specific benefits from learning Spanish in Latin America: learn how your day to day life will dramatically improve by being able to communicate with the locals. It's like discovering a new world.

Details of our Part Time Spanish Course for Expats: weekly schedule and course duration.

Start Dates for this Spanish Course: as long as we have a Spanish teacher available you can start a Part Time Spanish Course whenever you want to.

Rates: $450 - $600 per person per course depending on the way you decide to pay for your course.

This Part Time Spanish Course for Expats is intended for students who are living or working in Panama and do not have enough availability to study Spanish intensively. If you live in Latin America but have enough time to commit to a more intensive Spanish course you might consider our Group 4 Spanish Course or any other of our Spanish courses that helps students learn Spanish in a shorter time frame.

Reasons to Learn Spanish if you relocate in Latin America

Learning Spanish if you are retiring in Latin America will make your life a lot more exciting

Why Learn Spanish?

If you are planning to relocate or retire in Latin America: learn Spanish! It is a must in order to get the most out of your relocation experience and the key to having a more fulfilling new life. The real world is right outside your door and by speaking even a little bit of Spanish you will be able to embrace your new life completely.

English will allow you to survive but you will get so much more if you can converse in Spanish with the local people. It is not true either that everyone speaks English in Panama, in fact being able to learn a second language is mostly reserved to those privileged who can afford a private education. How are you going to make your new home a better place if you cannot speak Spanish?

These days many ex-pats are keen to learn Spanish and embrace their new life in Latin America fully. Never learning Spanish is a bit like missing out on a great slice of the new life they are beginning. By speaking even a small amount of Spanish, you will quickly find life is so much more exciting!

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Benefits of Learning Spanish for New Residents in Latin America

Being able to speak Spanish with the locals is one of the most important skills that anybody who relocates in Latin America should have

Speaking Spanish will give you a better lifestyle!

There is an increasingly English-speaking expat community in Panama but you get so much more out of life in a new country if you can converse with the local people.

If you are moving to a new home, speaking Spanish to local trades people, builders, utility companies, or when setting up a business, means you will get superior, faster service and you will be in a better position to negotiate if things go wrong. Knowing the language also opens up endless new friendships, and a deeper understanding of the Latin American culture.

Simply put: learning Spanish improves the quality of your life if you live in a Spanish speaking country... obvious, isn't it?

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Details of our Part Time Spanish Crash Course

4 - 10 hrs per week, 2 - 5 days of lessons per week

The Spanish classes in this Part Time Spanish Course focus on practical everyday communicative situations rather than on grammar analysis and writing. Special emphasis is placed on listening and speaking. Importance is also given to the cultural and social aspects of the Latin American community.

Students normally have between 6 and 10 hours of Spanish lessons per week. Some students have 6 hours of group or mini group lessons only. Other students add 4 hours of private lessons and yet others decide to only have private Spanish lessons normally because they prefer to start their course immediately instead of waiting for a group of their same level to start. Spanish lessons are held either in the mornings or afternoons. The class schedule is set taking into account student's preference and teacher's availability.

In 2.5 months students can make a significant progress in their Spanish. Students are required to sign up for at least 10 weeks (2 months and a half). In this amount of time they will take the amount of Spanish lessons required to finish at least one of our first three Spanish levels (each of them is coursed in an average of 60 hours of group lessons).

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Starting Dates for our Part Time Spanish Crash Course

Start dates all year long

As this course is designed for new local residents in Panama, we can start a new group at any time. Only two students of the same level are needed to start a group. We continually start Beginner Crash Course Groups almost every other month and we always have groups of other levels starting and going on during every month.

Please pay us a visit so that we can know your exact Spanish level, complete our online Placement Test or Contact Us and let us know if you do not know any Spanish and we will get back to you as soon as we have a group available for you.

If you are retiring in Latin America, we suggest that you at least finish our first 2 levels: Survival I (A1) and Survival II (A2). Many of our students sign up for 60 hours, take the 10 week course and then come back 2 or 3 months later and sign up for another 60 hours to complete a second level. Upon completing those two levels, many students return a year later to do another one or two levels, but it is very important that you keep using your Spanish during all of that time.

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Rates for our Part Time Spanish Crash Course

Different payment options are available for Boquete's new residents

From $7.50 per hour

Each of our 3 first levels can be completed in a 60 hour (10 week) course. This is why students sign up for 2.5 months (60 hours of group lessons). The cost for new local residents remains unchanged since 2007. When you sign up for a Part Time Spanish Crash Course for New Residents in Latin America we ask you to commit to finish at least one of our levels. This is why most students purchase 60 hours of group lessons throughout 10 weeks, making only 1 payment.

If you find it more convenient you can also decide to make 3 payments for 20 hours each, 2 payments for 30 hours each or even make 1 payment to purchase 120 hours and complete two of our levels paying the best rate per hour for Spanish lessons.

Payment Options

1 payment of $500 (for 60 hours of group lessons)

2 payments of $275 (each payment for 30 hours of group lessons)

3 payments of $200 (each payment for 20 hours of group lessons)

1 payment of $900 (for 120 hours - two levels -of group lessons)

The above are special prices and are not subject to further discounts. Included in the course fees: registration, level test, class material and handouts, certificates, wifi internet connection at the school, cultural & social activities and access to all the school's facilities. Prices are in U.S. Dollars. Note that there is no separate registration fee for our courses.

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Panamanian Public Holidays

Classes for our Part Time Crash course are rescheduled when they land on a holiday

In our Part Time Crash Course for New Residents classes are usually held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. When classes are lost due to holidays they are rescheduled to take place on the next possible day. The following Panamanian national holidays are observed by our Spanish school.

2012
January	February	April	May	November	December
1 New Years Day 9 Martyrs Day	20 Monday Carnival 21 Tuesday Carnival	5 Holy Thursday 6 Holy Friday	1 Labor Day	3 Separation Day 4 Flag Day 10 Grito de la Villa 28 Separation Day	8 Mothers Day 24 - 25 Christmas Celebrations 31 New Years Eve

* Our School reopens on Wednesday January 2nd 2013

2013
January	February	March	May	November	December
1 New Years Day	11 Monday Carnival 12 Tuesday Carnival	28 Holy Thursday 29 Holy Friday	1 Labor Day	4 Flag Day 28 Separation Day	24 - 25 Christmas Celebrations