Spanish Language Schools in Masaya-Nicaragua, history
By Raúl Gavarrette O. The former Escuela de Español Laguna de Apoyo, in Masaya – later in 1995 known as Escuela de Español Proyecto Ecológico Laguna de Apoyo – was founded in 1992, by the McKaye family. Beverly McKaye a South African artist became its first Director. The McKaye family had arrived in Nicaragua for […]
History of the Spanish Schools in Granada-Nicaragua
By Raúl Gavarrette O. In the 1990´s, Granada, the first colonial city in Nicaragua, the jewel of Central America, was yet an unspoiled market in regards of Spanish language programs. Spanish language schools in Granada, Nicaragua, began in the mid-1990s as a wave of post-revolution tourism and humanitarian projects. FIRST WAVE: THE BOOM OF THE […]
History of Spanish Language Schools in Managua-Nicaragua
By Raúl Gavarrette O. BEGINNING IN MANAGUA In 1993, the Nicaraguan revolutionary government started organizing an important and innovative non-commercial linguistic project: the first Spanish teaching center to teach the Spanish language to all of the non-Spanish speaker volunteers, working in various rural and urban projects in governmental institutions and ministries. This governmental initiative was […]
History of the Spanish Schools in Laguna de Apoyo-Nicaragua
By Raúl Gavarrette O. By the end of 1992 the Escuela de Español Laguna de Apoyo – later in 1995 known as Escuela de Español Proyecto Ecológico Laguna de Apoyo- started operations. This school was opened by the McKaye family. Beverly McKaye a South African artist became its first Director. The McKaye family had arrived […]
History of the Spanish Schools in Estelí-Nicaragua
By Raúl Gavarrette O. The origins of the first Nicaraguan Spanish language schools dates back to the 80´s during the Sandinista revolution. In the eighties there was not a language teaching industry and it was not seen as a business activity. The way the first Spanish language school was launched to public did not have […]
One-on-one Spanish lessons in Gran Pacifica-Nicaragua
Our Spanish language school, started offering in-home one-on-one Spanish lessons in Managua in the 2004 being the pioneer in this field. Since then we have provided private Spanish classes with native professional teachers. In Managua, we train embassies and NGO´s staff. We have taught Spanish to missionaries, diplomats, volunteers from International Cooperation Agencies in service […]
Free diving Laguna de Apoyo: One Breath in a Volcano Nicaragua
By Thomas Dédès Imagine slipping beneath the surface of a lake so calm it looks like glass, in water as warm as a swimming pool, inside the crater of a volcano. That’s an ordinary Tuesday at Laguna de Apoyo — Nicaragua’s best-kept freediving secret. A lake born of fire Around 23,000 years ago, a massive […]
Current Spanish Language Schools in Nicaragua (9)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. At present it seems that the strong Spanish school’s boom of the 90´s in Nicaragua, has decreased and come to a stable stage where the schools which survived the economic crisis after year 2018 are apparently the ones which will continue in the market. International high price of oil at present […]
Spanish Language Schools in Nicaragua, origins and history (8)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. The former Spanish school located in Laguna de Apoyo managed lately by Jeffrey McCrary got apart from its former financial partner and founder Dr. McKaye in 2009, and continued the programs by himself in another location right next to the former Spanish school Proyecto Ecológico site. McKaye family returned from the […]
Origins and history of the Spanish Schools in Nicaragua (7)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. After many years of being the strongest language program in Nicaragua, NSS disbanded in 2006 due to many intern conflicts with their massive instructors who had developed a commercial vision of the programs, and wanted somehow independence and decided to start their own business in the Spanish school new industry. That […]