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CLASSES PROGRAMS

Two Week Intensive Spanish

Four Weeks Special Intensive Spanish

Study Spanish at Otavalo Spanish Institute. Spanish school in Otavalo Ecuador Contact us: otavalospanish@hotmail.com

Otavalo Spanish Institute
Av. 31 de Octubre 476 y Juan de Salinas. 3rd floor. South America
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Otavalo Spanish Institute
Otavalo - Ecuador
Phone:
(593) 6-292 1404
Cell Phone:
(593) 9 1515876

Kichwa

Kichwa Kichwa is the official language of the indigenous people of the province of Imbabura. Ninety percent of this indigenous group speak Kichwa. Nowadays, local indigenous groups are trying to recover and revive their language by teaching it to all local indigenous people. Learning Kichwa is not difficult – like learning any other language, it is simply a question of learning basic vocabulary, verbs, and idioms, reinforcing them through conversation. There are three time tenses in Kichwa: past, present, and future. The Institute offers one-on-one and group classes (up to four students in a group) in Kichwa. Moreover, our time tested method is based in practicing your newly acquired language skills in daily situations.

Schedules Available

While OSI offers flexible schedules designed to fit the needs of our students, our classes are typically available from Monday to Friday, in the mornings as well as in the afternoons. However, if a student can not begin a course on a Monday, we will be happy to begin the course on any day of the week that fits the students needs. While we suggest that students take five hours of classes daily, you are free to follow a more rigorous regimen.

Moreover, students that would like to liven up their course a bit with additional activities can let us know so that we can we design a special program just for them.

To intensify your regimen and make the most out of your learning experience, our professors recommend that you take day trips in the afternoons to local indigenous communities where you’ll be able to apply what you learn in the classroom and practice your language skills

Professors

Our instructors all have university degrees in Linguistics. They are native indigenous people, born in Otavalo, and they have a great deal of experience in teaching Kichwa. They will help introduce you to the language so that you learn quickly and with ease.

Home Stay With a Local Family

In order to reinforce what you learn in the classroom and gain fluency as quickly as possible, we recommend that students stay with a local indigenous host family. Moreover, living with a host family is a completely different experience as you will have the opportunity to learn their customs and way of life. In addition to learning their language, you will learn many indigenous traditions, you’ll enjoy their unique celebrations, attend indigenous marriages and baptisms, delight in local traditional cuisine, and much more. Basically, you’ll enter a world complete different from that of Ecuadorian mestizos. Don’t miss the opportunity to discover the rich culture heritage here in the Ecuadorian Andes.

Prices

For information regarding the prices of our courses, please contact us.

Otavalo Spanish School 2008