Tuition:
$600 US, includes course and course materials.

Accommodations:
Singles - $99 per day per person for singles sharing a room, includes all meals and beer but does not include tips, tax, massages or other extras ($693/week). Singles may share double or triple.
Doubles - $81 per day per person for two people booking together and sharing a room, includes all meals and beer but does not include tips, tax, massages or other extras ($1,134/week for two people).

Course Description:

• The course will teach you basic conversational Spanish especially applicable to traveling in Spanish speaking countries.
• 2 lessons a day.
• Many of the lessons will be integrated into an excursion or activity such as a cooking lesson, hiking to the turtle sanctuary or visiting the local community.
• Spanish exercises and worksheets will be given as additional, optional practice.

Daily Schedule:
8:30 Yoga
9:30 Breakfast
10:30-12:30 Lesson
2:00 Lunch
3:00-5:00 Lesson
8:00 Dinner

Course Outline:

• Basic Spanish greetings
• Introductions
• Introduce yourself.
• Ask what somebody’s name is.
• Ask how somebody is doing.
• Vocabulary List Theme: Your Quarters

LESSON 1: Getting to Know Each Other
• Learn to ask where some body is from and what they do.
• Learn to say where you are from and what you do.
• GRAMMAR: "Ser"
• Vocabulary List Theme: The Beach

LESSON 2: Getting to Know the Beach
• Learn how to describe something/someone.
• Learn how to ask about the quality of something/someone.
• GRAMMAR: "Estar"
• Vocabulary List Theme: Direction

LESSON 1: Exploration
• Learn to ask for and give directions.
• Learn to ask where something is located.
• GRAMMAR: Common Verbs, -ar, -er, -ir
• Vocabulary List Theme: Numbers 1-10

*Learn and practice while hiking around the land.

LESSON 2: Present Tense
• Learn how to ask what someone is doing.
• Learn how to explain what you are doing.
• GRAMMAR: present tense conjugation
• Vocabulary List Theme: Food

LESSON 1: The Market
• Learn to ask for something.
• Learn to ask how much something costs.
• GRAMMAR: Gender of nouns
• Vocabulary List Theme: Items on a dining table

LESSON 2: Eating and Ordering
• Learn how to order food at restaurants.
• Learn cultural traditions, manners and phrases about dining.
• GRAMMAR: Plural form of nouns
• Vocabulary List Theme: Family

LESSON 1: Review what you’ve learned and practice with locals
• Practice greeting people in the community and introducing yourself.
• Practice asking what someone is doing and listening to how they explain.
• GRAMMAR: The verb form “hay”
• Vocabulary List Theme: Your favorite things

LESSON 2:
• Learn how to say you have something, or ask if someone has something.
• Learn how to talk about possessions.
• GRAMMAR: Tener, possessive adjectives
• Vocabulary List Theme: Temperature and Weather

LESSON 1: Is the weather hot or are you hot?
• Learn to ask questions and talk about the weather.
• Learn how to express how you feel physically.
• GRAMMAR: "Hacer"
• Vocabulary List Theme: numbers 10 and up

LESSON 2: Review and practice what you’ve learned in Zihuatanejo
• Practice ordering at a restaurant.
• Practice asking how much something costs at the market
• GRAMMAR: Formal/Informal
• Vocabulary List Theme: Observations in Zihuatanejo