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 […]
History of the Nicaraguan Spanish Language Schools (6)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. The first group of high school students from the United States brought by NSS in the same year 1998, made the team prioritize ahead preparation on setting up, organizing and opening the Palacio de Cultura Spanish School in Granada city. Sandra Espinoza Madrigal, a prominent member of the Asociación de Promotores […]
Nicaragua, origins and history of the Spanish Schools (5)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. Almost at the end of the 90´s Nicaragua experienced a tourist boom and became more popular as a new destination for tourism in Central America, and entrepreneurs from North America were attracted by the potential Nicaragua had. In 1997, a new language school Project was started in Nicaragua by entrepreneur Paul […]
Learn Spanish in Granada, Nicaragua
If you are travelling in Central America, give yourself a chance to stop by Granada, Nicaragua. The beautiful colonial Granada located on shores of the huge Cocibolca Lake offers great opportunities to study and learn the Spanish language. The Cocibolca Lake, is the eighth biggest in the world and the only fresh water lake inhabited […]
First Spanish Schools in Nicaragua, origins and history (4)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. Granada, the first colonial city in Nicaragua, was unspoiled in regards to language programs. The first Spanish program that opened in Granada was Casa Xalteva in 1995. This school was founded by Ken Carpenter and Gregory Calvert. They had arrived in Granada in the early 90’s and fell in love with […]
Spanish Schools in Nicaragua, origins and history (3)
By Raúl Gavarrette O. By the end of 1992 the former Escuela de Español Laguna de Apoyo – later in 1995 known as Escuela de Español Proyecto Ecológico Laguna de Apoyo- started operations. This school belonged to the McKaye family. Beverly McKaye a South African artist became its first Director and owner. The McKaye family […]