I took two Spanish classes here. I am not a fan.
First, although I do believe complete immersion in conversation is a great way for people to learn Spanish, I don't believe immersion is the best approach to teaching. Most of the time, our instructor would deliver the lesson entirely in Spanish, without explaining what she meant in English. When I didn't understand something, I missed everything she said after that.
One day in class, we were studying two different past tenses, and I was confused about them. I asked the instructor if she would please translate a sentence using both tenses into English so I could figure out which one was which. She replied, "We do not translate sentences into English. I tell you the basic function of the tenses, and then we study them in Spanish." That is not helpful to me.
Also, she spoke the Spanish used in Spain; I prefer to learn the Spanish used in Latin America.
Second, it appears that the administrators pulled a fast one on me. I wanted a different instructor for my second class. I called the school to see if he would be teaching the next class, and they said no. A month later, someone from the school called me and asked if I'd like to take the second class. I asked if my preferred instructor was teaching, and they said no. So I reluctantly signed up to take the second class from the same instructor I had had for the first one.
Then, when I got to class on the first day, I saw that, right across the hall, my preferred instructor was indeed teaching the second class! What?!?! It turns out that they need a minimum of five students to justify holding a class. I was their important fifth student. They did not want me to attend the other instructor's class because he already had a full class, and this other one had only four students. Instead of telling me the truth---that they needed me to sign up so they could hold the class with this instructor---they lied to me. That does not sit well with me at all.
And third, the people who work in this program are not friendly. I never felt comfortable going into the office to ask a question. I got a cold reception. Often, they would speak in hushed tones and then stop talking when a student walked into the room. It seemed as though we were a bother to them, an annoyance.
I quit in the middle of the second class. Life is too short to be miserable. In each class, I found myself staring at the clock on the wall, wishing it were over. Usually, learning is fun for me...but not here.
I will not take another class here. There are other Spanish programs. read more