About the SchoolOur institute is located within walking distance from the main square and the heart of the downtown. With more than thirty-five years' experience teaching English to speakers of Spanish, we are well aware of the latest teaching methods and developments in language learning.

When Salta started experiencing tourist growth and welcoming visitors from all over the world around ten years ago, we found that many foreign tourists were keen to learn Spanish for survival, so we started offering Spanish lessons to cater to their needs.

Now, we would like to offer you a package combining our expertise, unsurpassed scenery, delicious food, and above all, our hospitality.

Class Structure

• One-to-one lessons tailored to the student's needs and interests
• Group classes at different levels.
• Hands-on lessons designed around cooking, shopping, folk and tango dancing, fitness programs and more!

CV Patricia Villanueva De HoopsPati is a native of Argentina, but she has lived in the USA half her life. She has raised a bicultural-bilingual family. She is a Spanish and English teacher, and has received her degrees from the Universidad Nacional de Salta and Texas A&M. She is an accredited translator from the American Translators Association. Pati is an active member of our global community making cross-cultural connections. She teaches Spanish as a foreign language to adults and teenagers. She lives in Sherman, Texas, with her husband, three young adult children and two old cats.

 

CV Cecilia MoragaCecilia is a qualified teacher of English as a Foreign Language graduated from the local Teacher Training College, with over 12 years’ experience teaching English to children teenagers and adults. Together with her mother, she runs an English language school where she teaches mainly adult students and in-company courses. She started teaching Spanish to speakers of English in the high tourist season in Salta in July 2000, when many foreigners visited the province and needed basic Spanish to survive. The demand was such that she decided she could apply her training in teaching a foreign language to teaching Spanish to foreigners. On meeting Pat, they decided they could bring their experience and skills together to set up a Spanish School for foreigners, offering a combination of both language and tourism.
Cecilia is married with two young kids. Her main interests are continuous education, traveling, reading and gardening.

 

CV Norma BoetschNorma has had an impressive list of accomplishments throughout her career. She has taught English as a foreign language for more than 35 years at all levels, and has been school principal at more than three high schools, Supervisor of Tertiary Education at the local Ministry of Education, teacher trainer at the local Teacher Training College, among other positions. Currently, she is the President of the Federation of Teachers of English Association. In 1998, she was awarded a Fullbright scholarship and spent six months teaching Spanish at a high school in Sparks, Reno, Nevada. That was her first experience teaching Spanish to foreigners and from then on, she has done it locally on a regular basis. Now retired, Norma still works at the language school she owns together with Cecilia, tutoring local students in English and preparing some for international exams such as TOEFL and SAT. Norma is a very dynamic person. Her main interests, apart from work, include yoga, reading, traveling and spending time with her six children, all married, and her nine grandchildren.