August 15, 2005
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI PROGRAM LETS YOU STUDY ABROAD WITHOUT LEAVING THE UNITED STATES
Coral Gables, Florida¬ -- Is it really possible to learn a language in just seven days? “I could actually have a conversation in Spanish,” said a student who entered with only rudimentary skills. “I was amazed at how well I spoke, and how much I learned.”
The innovative, intensive seven-day Spanish-immersion program is offered by the University of Miami from October 22-28. The program is open to all adults, high school and college students. Regardless of current competency, students’ Spanish will improve dramatically. More importantly, confidence in the ability to communicate will soar.
The seven-day course is led by top instructors from the University of Miami. Each professor comes from a different Spanish-speaking country, adding a cross-cultural component to the course. The instructors’ dynamic methodology has students speaking on Day One and keeps them speaking throughout the 56-hours of the course.
The program includes innovative techniques that reduce barriers to the learning of foreign languages. The goal of the program is to make each student feel comfortable and natural with Spanish in a short period of time. Based on the idea of being immersed in a place and culture and in essence, forced to speak the language, classes are led purely in Spanish, and classroom techniques are fast-paced, theatrical, highly creative, dynamic and bring out enthusiasm in the students. The instructors believe that language learning should be stimulating, entertaining and fun.
Seven-Day Intensive Spanish is offered by the University of Miami’s Division of Continuing and International Education, 201 Allen Hall, 5050 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33124-1610. For more information, Contact: Julia R. Cayuso, program director, 305.284.1326, or
visit: www.educationmiami.com/departments/ILI/index.vsp
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Media contact: Margot Winick
mwinick@miami.edu
305-284-5500
