- Learn Spanish in Monteverde, Costa Rica
- The city of Monteverde
- Pricelist
Our partner school of Monteverde in Costa Rica is set in the town of Cerro Plano, where most regional accommodation and businesses are located.
The school offers:
- 21 indoor classrooms
- Garden
- Video room with big screen TV
- Small library
- Small computer room for the students
- Jacuzzi
- Showers
- Common room with billiards and table hockey
- Kitchen
- Dining area
- Intensive group course: 20 group classes per week
- Super-intensive group course: 25 group classes per week
- One on One course: 20 classes per week
- Volunteer program: a minimum of 4-week Spanish course is required to be eligible for the volunteer program.
Classes are held from Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 12:00pm with a 20-minute coffee break at 10:00am. In the Super-intensive courses classes start at 8:00am and finish at 2:30pm with a coffee break at 10:00am and a one-hour break at 12:00pm.
All teachers are university graduates and have been well trained in the teaching of Spanish to foreigners.
In order to help you improve your Spanish speaking skills and your knowledge of the culture, you'll reside with a host family where you will have a single room with half board.
The school organizes excursions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and on the weekends. Cultural activities take place in the library 2-3 times per week and once a month there is a "cultural week" celebration with special events.
The most common activities are:
- Latin Dance classes (salsa, merengue and cumbia)
- Cooking classes
- Literature or handicrafts workshops
- Coffee tour to the Cafe Britt coffee plantation
- Waterfall rappelling (also known as canyoning)
- White-water rafting
- Arenal Volcano
- Poas Volcano
- Irazu Volcano
- Manuel Antonio National Park
- Jungle boat trip on the Sarapiqui River
- Tortuguero National park
Due to its lush green tropical forests, Monteverde is one of the most beautiful places in Central America in which you can lose yourself in a world of nature and green.
