I spent a couple of weeks studying at Livit in March. The instruction was excellent (thanks, Maru)…read moreand targeted perfectly for our level of language proficiency. Class size was small - 3 students, fairly well-matched. Class ran from 9 to 1 every day, with lunch afterwards. After lunch we were matched with local guides who took us around to various places in Puebla to help us reinforce our Spanish around town. Once a week, there was a school outing to a nearby town to see a little more of the area. Homework was assigned most days, and sometimes it was pretty tough! It was a great learning experience. I know that my spoken Spanish improved as a result of the two week course, and my confidence in speaking improved as well. When I came home, I was able to pass a placement exam for a university course that I'm taking now, and I'm pretty sure that without the experience at Livit, I would not have placed as high as I did. The lunches provided were excellent, and it was fun to mix with other students at different levels of language proficiency. I really enjoyed getting to know Puebla and the area around it. It's a wonderful part of Mexico and not overrun with tourists. One advantage of attending an immersion in Puebla is that you will hear relatively little English and run into very few Americans. In two weeks in Puebla, I spoke very little English. Scott (the co-owner) does a great job setting expectations for incoming students, and is a warm and welcoming person who helps make everything run smoothly. The school is located close enough to Puebla old town that you can walk from the Zocalo to school in 10 or 15 minutes. There are many nice and reasonably-priced hotels and guest houses in the center.

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!

Incredible Spanish immersion school. I attended the 2-week course offered in December. I've taken…read moreother intensive classes, but nothing that so clearly and patiently went over the rules of grammar, conversation and usage. Well worth the experience.

The school has three week long classes for students to allow for learning without…read moreinterruption. Based on a series of books adapted for different levels of knowledge. Obviously, for the system to work, the new student should be assigned to their appropriate level of ability. Students are evaluated and assigned based on online test responses, written answers to questions and interviews in Spanish. After the results, the lists are posted and they are sent to small groups. The general policy as outlined in the information guide is that once a new class begins no new student were added to the group. This seemingly comprehensive testing system would make a new student feel confident that they were matched according to their abilities. Not always the case! Have heard some ambitious ones complain about teacher too slow to move on to the next topic so all the course content could be covered on time; for example in Level 3, when teacher has to spend more time to help a student having trouble with their (no pun intended) indirect pronouns. For others, classes they are put into are unpleasantly difficult despite their efforts. By the time a problem becomes apparent, they are already at the end of the first week; the grammar, composition and comprehensions exercises are just too difficult to follow. The students are from many different locations in US, old and young ages, different abilities and backgrounds; can promote great learning experiences or give rise to tensions and disagreements if not well matched. Something else, the 'new' student may feel that the text book topics are not being covered adequately or parts are being passed over quickly. That may be because they are with mostly 'repeaters' and/or 'returners'. At the end of a course level, rather than moving onto the next one, some go back and do the same level again. Then there are the ones who come back every year and retake the same level. Many found the school to be excellent because of the central location, teaching, conversational guides, hosts and group excursions. But some students were left instead with mixed feelings. From my time there in 2023 and from listening to others, there was too much variability in the overall quality to be sure of a great experience. That being said, the task of managing a school like this one is tough enough because there are so many moving parts. There is also the usual visitor adjustment to daily grind of commuting from suburbs, different diet, dry/stormy seasons and health problems for some related to air quality/altitude.

From the owner: Consultoría de recursos humanos. Dedicados al reclutamiento…read morey selección de personal, aplicación de pruebas psicométricas, capacitación y estudios socio laborales.