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Quick Look
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Location:
Quetzaltengango - Guatemala
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Language Taught: Spanish
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Program Size: 10-50
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Average Class Size: 1
Overview
Celas Maya is the Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos, Antropológicos, y Sociales Maya. Located in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, Celas Maya offers high quality immersion Spanish and Quiche language instruction while promoting improved access to education and technology among Mayan youths through its scholarship and technology training programs.
Special
Courses or Features
Spanish for Academic Purposes
Spanish for Business Purposes
Spanish for Medical Purposes
Spanish Immersion Program (40+
hrs/wk)
Spanish for Law
Spanish for Travel Professions
Parent and Child Program
Programs for Seniors (50+ years old)
One-to-One / Private Lessons
Short Programs (1 Week or Less)
Volunteer Program Opportunities
Activities
Available
Art or Painting
Music
Cooking & Culinary
Dance
Housing/Accommodation
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Homestay / Host Family
Program Costs
Weekly tuition with homestay: $135 (Spanish) and $150 (Quich´e)
Weekly tuition without homestay: $105 (Spanish) and $120 (Quich´e)
Costs
Include: Tuition at CELAS Maya is US $135* per week for Spanish and $150 for K’iche´ and includes the following:
- Four and a half hours a day, five days a week of one-on-one intensive Spanish or K’iche’ language classes. Each day after two and a half hours of study there is a half-hour break for socializing with other students and teachers in the garden. The courses are organized to fit the student’s needs, with teachers designing the studies to fit the students learning style, language ability, and personal interests.
- Seven day stay with a local host family providing three meals a day Monday through Saturday (you still have your room on Sunday, but we ask students to take that day to enjoy the cafés and restaurants of Xela to give the families a rest from cooking).
- Participation in our cultural activities program. We offer activities 5 days a week, M-F, and on either Saturday or Sunday we take a trip outside of Xela. When applicable, transportation, food, and entrance fees are paid for by students.
- One hour of internet access a day, Monday through Friday, in our own Internet Café.
-Free coffee, tea, and water available for students during classes. Fresh bread provided during class breaks.
- Access to our library and videocafé. We have fiction and non-fiction in English, Spanish, and
various other languages. There are books on Guatemalan and Latin American history and politics in addition to textbooks, dictionaries, verb manuals and more to supplement your class. We also have films and documentaries about Guatemala and Latin America in Spanish and English, many with subtitles.
- Assistance for interested and qualified students to find appropriate volunteer work opportunities in the Quetzaltenango region. Please inquire for more details by e-mail or in our office.
- Profits from our language programs support Asociación Intercambio, a scholarship program for rural Maya youth. Our Internet Café also supports nine non-governmental organizations with free computer and Internet support.
Students studying four and a half hours a day can study from 8am to 1pm or from 2pm to 7pm. You may also choose to study fewer or more hours. If you are interested in studying more or less than 5 hours please let us know and we will send you further information.
You may also choose to study without living with a host family; in that case you pay $30 less. Let us know if you’d like to make a reservation for you in the Guest House (similar to a hostel) near CELAS Maya.
*Beginning June 2005 the price of tuition and homestay will increase to $150/week, so hurry up and visit soon!
Dates
Study at Celas Maya is very flexible. Students choose when they would like to start studying and for how many weeks they would like to do so. You can register months in advance or as late as two days ahead of time. We even take walk-ins and will do our best to accomodate them and get them set up with a teacher that very day if they would like.
Contact
6 calle, 14-55 Zona 1
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Tel:
502.7761.4342
Fax:
502.7761.4342
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