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Javier, Val and Rojelio are excellent Spanish teachers with lots of creativity and expertise. Likewise, Lupita is an essential guide for exploring the cultural activities in GTO and learning key everyday things (like getting your Mexican phone chip the first week, hailing a taxi and going to a hacienda for brunch, bank accounts, and going to the doctor's office). It is a full immersion experience, as advertised.
Every one of the teachers has a fantastic personality and sense of humor making it easy to hang out with them and learn the language to the best of your ability. I go back to them again and again because it works, and I truly believe I'm learning Spanish much faster at the SEC than anywhere else here. The reason for that is because Rojelio teaches the individual rules behind trickier parts of Spanish way better than you'd get in a typical highschool class or university one. One day I realized, "This is way more comprehensive and insightful than those classes I had as a youngin!" [because it was.] If you don't understand the "why?" part, you're just guessing a lot of the time what to say in Spanish which makes you stutter and stammer and conversations grind to a halt.
I live in a Mexican family home as recommended so it all sinks in organically just by following the program. They have a very effective and practical system of teaching Spanish along with learning Mexican culture inside and out. It ends up being fun and challenging, because they gently push you beyond what you think you can do which is where the real advances come from. That is really a sign of respect and the hallmark of the best kind of teachers, which they definitely are.
