Please note: You are very welcome to book classes for as little as a week, but please note that learning Spanish is a complicated process and
we cannot guarantee that you will learn much beyond the very basics in a short amount of time.
 Spanish grammar and material based conversations
(newspaper, books, audio, TV) from 8.00am to 12.00pm (with a break for coffee, freshly made juice): twenty or twenty-eight hours per week
Courses run for 52 weeks per year
All of our teachers are local people - in keeping with the Mariposa
policy of offering as much sustainable local employment as possible - they are trained teachers and/or have many years of experience teaching
Spanish. Several speak English.
Formal classes are no more than three students per class, often one on one.
Saturday and Sunday classes - we can pair you up with one of our teachers or a
non-professional (a student, a local resident, one of the Mariposa workers) to learn more informally about Nicaraguan life by going out and
about……and practicing that Spanish!
You can join the programme whenever you like and stay as long as you
like - but please note that we can't promise you will learn much in a week.
We use six levels of grammar from complete beginner to advanced
and we ask you to complete a test to help us determine your level.
Specially designed courses for children, using a mixture
of activities and interactive teaching methods.
We have developed our own materials to reflect Spanish as used in Nicaragua.
We use the immersion system of teaching which we would
recommend for anyone who is beyond the absolute beginner stage. For those students who need some help we do have English speakers on hand.
If you have particular vocabulary requirements
(for example, for medical volunteers) we can integrate this.
You have access to a number of books in Spanish,
dictionaries, grammar texts and a daily paper.
You are welcome to practise your Spanish
with any of our staff – they all have a great deal of expertise in their own areas of work and are happy to talk to you.
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