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Spanish Classes for Adults
(adults and teens in grades 7+) Thank you for your wonderful response! We continue to receive requests for various types of classes for adults. Therefore, we have opened up more classes and will continue to offer periodic classes throughout the year to satisfy requests for various levels of Spanish learners. Please email us and let us know if you are looking for a class that we currently don't have on the schedule.

  • Evening Class Schedule
  • Spanish Immersion Weekend
  • Business Spanish
  • Spanish Learning Journeys
  • Evening Conversational Spanish Classes




  • Spanish Immersion Weekend (next one July 23-24)
    This weekend immersion class starts Friday evening from 6pm - 10pm and continues Saturday from 9am until 5pm. a cultural lunch will be included. This class is an excellent opportunity to get in intense immersion in the language in a very short time. This class serves all levels of Spanish ability - we do activities that enable students to learn from each other as well as from the instructors. Cost for this class is $130. This is difficult to schedule with people's busy lives! We need your input to know which weekends would work for you! Please REGISTER for Weekend Immersion Class ONLINE here if you are interested and you will find a list of possible weekends. Please give us your preferences and we'll do the rest.


    Spanish for Business
    We do offer conversational Spanish classes customized for Businesses that can be tailored to the vocabulary and needs of the business as well. These classes are very affordable and very effective! Contact us to let us know of your needs!
    Also, we offer Business-lunch Spanish classes when the interest level is sufficient and offer conversational Mandarin Chinese class on Saturday mornings. Please let us know if you are interested either of these.


    Travel Spanish Learning Journeys!! Costa Rica 2011!
    What a great way to learn Spanish, culture, and be able to help those in need! Get details here!

    Evening Conversational Spanish Classes
    These programs provide ongoing intensive conversational Spanish language instruction for adults and teens in grades 7+. Classes are conducted entirely in Spanish. Over the past four years, our students have experienced successes on many levels learning Spanish. Their feedback has led us to increase the duration of our classes to 2 hours per week, which helps ensure sufficient opportunity to "get into the language"and achieve even more success! See schedule below.


        2010 Adult Schedule
    REGISTER ONLINE

    Intro I Conversational Spanish
    PRICING
    SCHEDULE
    AGES
    LEVEL
    WEEKDAY, START DATE
    END DATE
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intro I

    Mondays,
    August 23rd

    October 11th
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intro I

    Wednesdays,
    October 20th

    December 15th
    Location: Puentes Classrooms, 4720 W. Franklin, just east of Orchard in Boise (easy freeway access)
    An introductory course in Spanish for beginners with little or no Spanish background. Class will cover basic greetings, numbers to 100, describing origin and where one lives, family, calendar, telling time, describing where one works, likes and dislikes with pastimes, basic colors, describing people, basic foods and restaurant activity.


    Intro II Conversational Spanish
    PRICING
    SCHEDULE
    AGES
    LEVEL
    WEEKDAY, START DATE
    END DATE
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intro I

    Wednesdays,
    August 25th

    October 13th
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intro I

    Mondays,
    October 18th

    December 13th
    This course follows Intro I and is for individuals who have some basic knowledge or exposure to Spanish. Class will cover basic foods and market activity, body, clothing, shopping, giving and receiving directions, places, and some common regular verbs in present tense. Students may begin to do some reading and journaling.
    Location: Puentes Classrooms, 4720 W. Franklin, just east of Orchard in Boise (easy freeway access)


    TPR Storytelling Conversational Spanish
    PRICING
    SCHEDULE
    AGES
    LEVEL
    WEEKDAY, START DATE
    END DATE
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    TPRS

    Thursdays,
    August 26th

    October 14th
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    TPRS

    Thursdays,
    October 21st

    December 16th
    Language will be acquired through the instructor's use of the teaching method TPRS, Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling. Students will participate in developing, acting, and rewriting stories as well as reading short stories in and outside of class. This method is proven to be one of the most effective ways of becoming proficient in the language. High beginner level.
    Location: Puentes Classrooms, 4720 W. Franklin, just east of Orchard in Boise (easy freeway access)



    Intermediate Conversational Spanish
    PRICING
    SCHEDULE
    AGES
    LEVEL
    WEEKDAY, START DATE
    END DATE
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intermediate

    Tuesdays,
    August 24th

    October 12th
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Intermediate

    Tuesdays,
    October 19th

    December 14th
    This course is for the advanced beginner to intermediate level Spanish speaker who has some basic Spanish vocabulary and is looking for an avenue to use the language in a conversational setting. Emphasis is on group and paired activities that will encourage discussions. Grammar explanation is presented on a contextual, as-needed basis. Weekly reading and journal assignments are an essential part of the class.
    Location: Puentes Classrooms, 4720 W. Franklin, just east of Orchard in Boise (easy freeway access)

     


    Advanced Conversational Spanish
    PRICING
    SCHEDULE
    AGES
    LEVEL
    WEEKDAY, START DATE
    END DATE
    $130
    8 weeks -
    7-9pm
    Teen - Adult
    Advanced
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    This course is for the more accomplished Spanish speaker who has strong communicating ability, good reading ability, and a medium to broad Spanish vocabulary level and is looking to strengthen their speaking ability and broaden their vocabulary. Emphasis is on reading and group discussion.
    Location: Puentes Classrooms, 4720 W. Franklin, just east of Orchard in Boise (easy freeway access)

     

     

    You can now register and pay online: REGISTER ONLINE

    or call us (344-4270) or email us and request a paper registration.

     
     

     

    Send an email to puentes2004@msn.com with the Subject of PUENTES-EVENING to request more information and/or to let us know of your specific interests.

     

     
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