What a great place to improve my Spanish, meet really nice people, and get oriented in Mexico City…read moreduring my recent short solo trip! The school was kind enough to place me in a well-suited, existing group class for my 4 days in town, with an excellent, encouraging and fun teacher. I also took some private lessons one-on-one, which speeded up my learning process. I am so glad I stopped off here on my way to South America, and will go back again next time I visit Mexico City!

From the owner: Spanish courses for foreigners in Mexico City. Our Spanish school offers different levels, from…read morebeginners to intermediate and advanced.

3 of us (mature women) just returned from 2 weeks in Mexico City taking classes @ Lengua y Cultura…read more We have taken courses for some years & have gone to language school in another town in Mexico so knew what we wanted. We interviewed 2 other schools before this one and were on the verge of scrapping the trip when we found L&C. They have a placement test beforehand so you know where you fit. They have an actual building and a staff that has a curriculum. The director answered all of our questions in a timely manner. The other students had more experience talking but we 3 knew the grammar. They did field trips on Fridays (part of the "Cultura") and they had (casual) conversations on Thursday nights (in addition to other activities throughout the week). I would highly recommend this school and give a shout out to instructors Diego & Eric as well as Adrian (registrar).

I'm halfway through a 4 week intensive (3 hours a day) beginners course with Carlos (Charlie) as my…read moreinstructor. I am very satisfied with the school in all aspects; location in Condesa, Vanessa who signed me up, Charlie, and my fellow students. I floundered for about a week and a half but then things started to click. I highly recommend after class using Babbel or Duolingo for an hour or two this was the catalyst for me.

I am confused about the positove reviews because it is a scam. Beware. You have to book the course…read morein advance, and once paid, the communication ends. I hope this will help other people not to get scammed.

It's an organizational disaster. Teachers come late, cafe seating can be limited, uncomfortable…read moreand noisy. Walking "tours" are worthless wastes of time. Using different cafes daily means some will be quite distant from your housing. The central What's App phone number is ok before arrival for messages but never answered in person. Their communications are the worst. They just make you feel uncared for and on your own. Absolutely no support for weekend activities.

I learned of ASLI Spanish Institute when I was a doctoral student at the University of California,…read moreLos Angeles. At the time, I was seeking lessons in Nahuatl as well as Spanish instruction in preparation for fieldwork in Morelos. Paco and Maru arranged for private tutoring in Náhuatl and as well as advanced instruction in Spanish. While I have a unique case, in that I have been engaged in fieldwork while taking classes, I have been deeply impressed by the care that the institute takes to ensure that all visiting students have a cultural immersion in Mexico and in the local history of Morelos, the historic epicenter of the Mexican Revolution. In addition to instruction, students are taken to cultural and historic sites throughout Morelos and Mexico City: teachers have the option to visit local schools in Morelos to learn of the conditions of public and private education in Mexico. The institute boasts a range of high quality teachers with the ability to teach across ages and levels-- instruction that far exceeded my experience of language education in primary school in the U.S. Students are offered the option to stay among local families. From my experience, the majority of students leave with a heightened knowledge of the socio-cultural history in Mexico as well as a working knowledge of Spanish in conversation. This level of care, as well as the cultural experiences that Maru and Paco work to provide, is truly exceptional. I highly recommend the institute for all looking to learn or improve their Spanish, and especially for teachers in the U.S seeking Spanish instruction and intercultural exchange.

Studying Spanish at ASLI has been a wonderful experience. The classes are fun, interesting and…read moreengaging. My communication skills improved from day 1 because the school provided many opportunities during the day for me to use my Spanish. I absolutely loved the campus. The classes were small and personalized to my needs, the grounds are green with colorful flowers and the people were great. The teachers were fun and enthusiastic while the administration was always happy to help and make me feel at home. Great homestay experience. Cuernavaca is a safe and beautiful place to learn the language and experience the culture. All in all just wonderful.

My experience at Livit was incredible. The classes are customized to your individual level. The…read moreclass sizes are small, but large enough to encourage learning and conversation amongst students. The teachers are incredible and so helpful. The exercises and examples used in the classes are easy to comprehend and facilitate rapid learning of the Spanish language. The lunches provided by Livit were fantastic. I enjoyed talking with all of the other students and the teachers during lunchtime. This helped to increase my conversational Spanish. Puebla is a great city. On the weekends, there was always plenty to do in the plazas and throughout the town. I enjoyed afternoons with our guides touring museums, walking around the plazas and streets, shopping, sitting in cafes and playing board games. Puebla is a safe city and easy to navigate getting around. We lived with a family arranged through the school and really enjoyed our time with them. They were super kind, helpful, and live very close to the school. It was great to eat with them daily and converse with them in Spanish about their family, customs, life, and interests. It definitely helped our Spanish skills. I would highly recommend attending the Livit school in Puebla to increase your fluency with the Spanish language. I hope to attend again. Katy K.

Livit is dedicated and very professional about an immersive Spanish experience. Prior to booking,…read morethey give you useful information, no "pie-in-the-sky" hot air. After you book, and before you get there, they follow through with helpful tips for getting around Puebla, including things to do. They also give you a written and oral pre-arrival Spanish assessment, which turned out to be pretty spot-on for me (and, from what I saw, for the vast majority of students). From day one, you notice their professionalism in business administration and customer service. They set you up with small-group classes (mornings, 5x/week) and with one-on-one city guides (afternoons, 3x/week); they serve you lunch (usually outside, in their delightful garden) with attention to your dietary needs (5x/week, with 3x/week being home-cooked); and they have excursions to intriguing places lined up every Thursday afternoon. The teachers are qualified and personable, the topics covered in class are interesting and engaging overall, and the instruction is solid. In combination with the one-on-one guidance in the afternoons and the weekly excursions with guided tours in easy-enough Spanish, not to mention a ton of things to do, see, and explore in Puebla, you do get a rich and varied immersion. Two thirds of my small-group experience were bogged down by that one student who would often monopolize the conversation and keep going down some rabbit hole, taking away from everyone else's speaking time. That could have used some classroom management from the teacher. Also, there were a couple of occasions when the teacher spent a lot of time writing up charts on the board that could have been handouts. That halted the conversation, and made it feel a little like just the kind of "school" that Livit says it avoids. That experience almost cost Livit one star in this review, but the last third saved it (if barely). Maru was a great teacher; she was animated and engaging, kept the class moving along, and did a good job keeping "that" student in check. Therefore, I'll say four stars for the small-group instruction, and still five stars total, because everything else went as well as it could possibly have! Livit really knows business management and customer service. They choose good "adjunct" people to be one-on-one afternoon guides. You get a different guide every week. Mine were all very friendly, and willing to engage with whatever tourist attraction or activity I felt like. And the Puebla area has so much of that to offer! I was able to make the most of my time, thanks in no small part to the effective afternoon guides Livit works with. I had turned to Livit for the kind of guided immersive experience that would work for me as a Spanish learner who had never been to Mexico before. And in the end, it came out a success!

From the owner: Universidad Internacional UNINTER fundada en 1980 en la ciudad de Cuernavaca, Morelos…read more - Posgrados con 7 Especialidades, 13 Maestrías y 1 Doctorado - Universidad con 25 Licenciaturas y 8 ingenierías - Bachillerato Multicultural y Bachillerato Bilingüe - Secundaria Multicultural y Secundaria Bilingüe - Escuela de Español para extranjeros Intercambios Internacionales en más de 30 países, en mas de 100 universidades. Prácticas profesionales en México y en otros países.

Oh, how I wish I had read these reviews BEFORE signing up for Level 2 Spanish at CEPE-Polanco. The…read moreteacher I had here was AWFUL. You could tell that she did not enjoy teaching and helping students progress...was just collecting a paycheck. Equally bad: They crammed 14 people in our class so there was no time for us to truly practice conversation with the "teacher". SAVE YOUR MONEY: You will get better results from an online class than you ever will from CEPE-Polanco. You're welcome!

The review that I read by Jen K is so misleading that I just felt compelled to write a review :) I…read moream sure it's a genuine review, But I think this was a bad experience because of one bad teacher. I came to Mexico to learn Spanish. While I was in the US, I researched schools in Mexico city and I found that private schools were heavily advertised. I came here and visited two of them. Frida Language school and International House. Both seemed good but were expensive. Frida was $ 180 a week (approx) and International House was $ 220 a week (approx). International House seemed more professional. But the issue with these schools was that they had 4 hours of classes a day, which for me seemed like a lot. And like I mentioned before $ 220 is a lot for a week, considering that it would take anyone 6 months to learn a new language. CEPE Polonco is amazing. They have different intensity levels, so you can choose to take classes twice a week, 3 time or 4 times. I've taken the 3 times a week for 2.5 hours per class to a total of 7.5 hours a week. That gives me enough time to memorize stuff and think about what was taught. The course is divided into Basico 1,2,3,4. I am in Basico 1 and it will run for 10 weeks totaling 75 hours of classroom time. The cost is Approx $ 360 for Bascio 1. The teacher is amazing and the course curriculum is fantastic. We have escucha (listening), Games to make memorizing stuff easier, there are constant revisions of what was taught and overall it's a fun class. The best part is that we are being taught Spanish in Spanish...with minimal use of English. I found this odd at first, but Now that I've gone through the system, I appreciate it a lot more. I highly recommend this to everyone.