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SPECIAL PROGRAMS SPANISH AND BUSINESS 4 week program | All Levels | Every Monday
Elebaires Spanish for Business was created especially for business students, recent graduates, MBA candidates, and young professionals looking to build their resumes and enhance their Spanish with specific, fundamental and relevant Spanish. Spanish for Business is a customized Intensive Group Spanish Course with the addition of individual lessons focusing on business and Latin American Business practices. The Business Program includes a total of 80 in-class hours over the period of one month. Regardless of your current Spanish level, you will find this to be an intensive, valuable and challenging course.
At the end of the Spanish for Business program you'll be able to successfully communicate in the following situations:
• Writing professional letters and emails
• When and how to use common business jargon
• Make meaningful contributions in a business meeting
• Understand the nuances of doing business in Latin America
CLASS HOURS
80 hours of instruction over a period of four weeks. This includes 40 hours Fundamentals of Spanish small group sessions, 20 hours customized, one-on-one Spanish for Business classes, 20 hours Spanish for Business small group lessons, role-plays, activities and conversation.
DURATION
The Spanish and Business program is a four week intensive program. The first two weeks emphasize Spanish fundamentals to learn, review and enhance the student's abilities for general conversation, thus making business lessons far more effective. You'll take four hours of small group fundamentals classes daily followed by a private Spanish for Business class. Your fundamentals class is grouped with students of all disciplines who share your Spanish level.
Classes use a combination of written grammar exercises, listening activities, conversation, debates, songs, games and plenty of chance to speak, speak, speak (and, of course, laugh!!) Your individual classes will focus on your particular area of business, and your professor tailors them to cover specifically what you told us you wanted to learn in your pre-trip evaluation.
During these first two weeks you'll visit the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, and be paired with your Porteño Partner, a local young professional who will meet with you to chat about their work life, answer your questions, and surely ask plenty of their own!
During the second two weeks, you'll split your days between private Spanish for Business lessons and small group Spanish for Business classes. You'll take a class or two outside in a park, sit in a cafe, or just take a trip to the store to keep the learning dynamic. Together you'll have the chance to see what a prominent business school is like, with a tour of the La Universidad de la Empresa in Buenos Aires.
CLASS SIZE
This will depend on whether there are other students partaking in this class with you. We have the option of focusing this program for individuals and groups. Our classes have a maximum limit of seven students.
COURSES INCLUDE:
1. 80 hours of Spanish lessons including:
• 40 hours Fundamentals of Spanish small group sessions,
• 20 hours customized, one-on-one Spanish for Business classes
• 20 hours Spanish for Business small group lessons, role-plays, activities and conversation
2. Customized guided tour of Buenos Aires Stock Exchange
3. Visit to La Universidad de la Empresa, one of South America's premier business schools
4. Porteño Partner Service
5. Guided City Tour
6. Weekly Cultural Activities
7. 24 Hour Emergency Service.
In all our partner destinations you have all the services like you do in Buenos Aires: accommodation, after-school activities, trips and adventure tourism. There is no extra cost for organizing a coordinated program with a school in another city. AIRPORT PICK-UP/DROP-OFF
Airport pick-up and drop-off from the international airport (Ezeiza) can be arranged by the school at the cost of US$65 each way.
ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS
A range of accommodation options can be organized for you during you stay. The school offers housing in host-families, shared student apartments, student residences, and hostels. For further information, see our Accommodation page.
PRICES
Prices are dependent on the amount of time you enrol with discounts available on long-term enrolments. For more specific information, see our Pricing page or contact us directly.
If you have any doubts concerning which Spanish course to take, please contact us and we can advise you further on the Spanish program that will best meet your needs.
