LEARN SPANISH IN COCHABAMBA
Our immersion Spanish Language Program
ONE ON ONE SYSTEM
Our course combines personalized language learning and focuses on the needs of each student with a total immersion in a new culture. Thus, the Spanish language program has the following characteristics:
Orientation:
All students have an orientation at the beginning of the Spanish language program, it includes: Academic system at CLIMAL, living in Cochabamba, Bolivia, how to stay safe in Cochabamba, Bolivia and how to stay healthy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI):
At the beginning of the Spanish language program to determine your Spanish language level and communicative needs in order to tailor your Spanish language program. And again the end of the Spanish language program, in order to evaluate your progress. We use ACTFL parameters to evaluate the students’ initial level of competency of the language, their progression, and their obtained level of competency at the end of each course.
One on one classes:
They are an excellent way of learning the Spanish language in a natural and effective manner. These types of Spanish classes take the approach of oral communication and the use of the Spanish language in real situations. The students work with a highly trained native-speaking teacher to develop your abilities of conversation, listening, comprehension, reading, and writing.
Course content:
Level: Beginner
Communicative Objectives:
- Use the Spanish language to speak about familiar topics related to your personal life and be able to combine learned material to express your personal message.
- Ask simple questions.
- Construct simple sentences in the Spanish language, typically in the present tense.
- Be understood by conversational partners accustomed to working with non-native Spanish speakers
Level: Intermediate
Communicative Objectives:
- Ability to create sentences using the Spanish language and speak about familiar topics related to daily life.
- Ask simple questions and be able to navigate a basic survival situation.
- Navigate various situations with basic survival.
- Produce the Spanish language using sentences.
- Understood by Spanish natives accustomed to speaking to foreigners
Level: Advanced
Communicative Objectives:
- Converse in a clear and participatory manner to communicate about autobiographical topics, such as topics of communal interest, national or international.
- Speak about concrete topics by using narration and description mainly in past, present, and future tense.
- Navigate a variety of social situations with an unexpected complication using the Spanish language abundantly; the spoken paragraph is the measure of the extent and organization of your speech.
- Have sufficient control of basic structures and general vocabulary to be understood by Spanish native speakers in the language, including those that are not accustomed to speaking with foreigners.
Level: Superior
Communicative Objectives:
- Communicate with precision and fluency – participate completely and effectively in conversations about a variety of topics in formal and informal contexts with concrete and abstract perspectives.
- Discuss and explain about personal interests, areas of specialty, and complex issues in detailed form.
- Produce the Spanish language in an extensive and coherent manner, with ease, fluency and precision.
DELE PREPARATION COURSE
DELE Spanish Diplomas are official titles certifying degree of competence and mastery of the Spanish language, granted by Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
Academic Activities
Lectures:
They take place once a week. On one hand, these lectures provide a listening practice for the student. They also offer information about relevant topics in a manner that the students can understand, know and value, little by little, the socio-cultural reality of Bolivia and Latin America. In this way, the lectures facilitate the process of acculturation.
Discover Bolivia in a new and exciting way with our cultural interaction activities.
Educational Outings:
Students go to a variety of places of interest within the city of Cochabamba. This way, students have the opportunity to live the history and reality of Bolivia and Cochabamba through practicing the Spanish language with a unique cultural immersion. It also provides a space for students to interact with each other.
Group conversation about different topics:
Students and teachers meet to converse and exchange information, knowledge, opinions and experiences about social and cultural topics, festivals, etc. in the Spanish language.
Playful Games:
These are enjoyable and fun games in the Spanish language to practice communicative skills that are useful in any given moment.
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Calendar
Calendar 2024
- Course V: July 8th to August 16th
- Course VI: August 19th to September 27th
- Course VII: September 30th to November 8th
- Course VIII: November 11th to December 20th
Calendar 2025
- Course I: January 13 to February 21
- Course II: February 24 to April 4
- Course III: April 7 to May 16
- Professional development May 19 to May 23
- Course IV: May 26 to July 4
- Course V: July 7 to August 15
- Course VI: August 18 to September 26
- Course VII: September 29 to November 7
- Course VIII: November 10 to December 19
Calendar 2026
- Course I: January 12 to February 20
- Course II: February 23 to April 3
- Course III: April 6 to May 15
- Professional development May 18 to May 22
- Course IV: May 25 to July 3
- Course V: July 6 to August 14
- Course VI: August 17 to September 25
- Course VII: September 28 to November 6
- Course VIII: November 9 to December 18
We have morning or afternoon schedule:
Morning: 8:15 – 12:00
Afternoon: 12:50 – 16:30
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