Online language courses

travelbug, if you google "learn spanish online", you get the following results

If you're able you should consider spending a week or more at a Spanish language course in Guatemala. They are very good and amazingly inexpensive.

for example the typical Guatemalan school charges $200-250 per week* including a homestay with a local family and 2-3 meals per day.

Below is just one link but there are others if you are willing to do a little googling.

The link below also indicates that there is a $90. registration fee which I suppose is the same whether you go for one week or six (as my daughter's friend did recently)
http://www.spanishabroad.com/guatemala.htm


*does not include your airfare or in-country travel of course

Hmm, I plan to go to South America and will be doing a couple of weeks in a language and culture centre in Bolivia before starting volunteering. It's not really practical to do Guatemala as well, much as I'd love to! I just wanted something to keep me going before then, may stick to reading Spanish news and books.

travelbug,

Check this out:

http://www.spanishabroad.com/spanish_online.htm


PS

Ojala' que todo le pase bien en Bolivia, y que tengas buen tiempo!

jjorge

Find Spanish discussion forums that suit your interests, register, and use them to practice your conversational Spanish and don't be afraid to ask for any explanations such as colloquial terms that you don't understand.

when I get home I have a link

I take it he never got home?

evidently not... hmm

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