Language Immersion

[DanielMSSM]

Can anyone recommend a great Spanish language immersion program in Central or South America?

I am looking to go for 4 weeks and would like to find one that has a medical Spanish component.

Thank you!

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[my alias]

while traveling in south america last summer, i kept meeting people who had great things to say about the language school in cuenca ecuador. ecuador is very beautiful, and i found the spanish dialect to be clear and easy to undersand, unlike some other places i've been. i personally preferred quito to to cuenca...nicer city. don;t know about medical immersion programs, sorry. have fun.

 

[JBlue]

I did an immersion program this past summer in Nicoya, Costa Rica. The website is www.spanishcostarica.com. It was very good. I did 3 hrs/day in the class room and then two hours a day in the hospital rounding with an internal medicine doctor. The school set the volunteering up for me. It was interesting seeing another country's medical system. Nicoya is a nice city to be in because it is not very touristy, not many gringos and not much english spoken. It is also only a 45 minute bus ride to a really beautiful beach. I did not speak any spanish before I went and learned quite a bit. I stayed for 4 weeks. I have heard the spanish programs in Guatemala, specifically Antigua are also good. They are quite a bit cheaper than the Costa Rica ones.

 

[owen_osh]

My school (University of Kentucky) sends some people every year to a medical Spanish program in Oaxaca, Mexico. I went last year and it was great. The city is really nice and the program was excellent. We go through a language school called the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca. (Google the name and you can find their website.) The medical portion consisted of a class in medical terminology and interviewing, some lectures in English on health issues in Mexico, and several fieldtrips. We visited a private hospital, a public hospital, an HIV clinic, a rehab hospital, and two traditional healers (curanderos).

All in all, it was a great program which I highly recommend.

 

[phoenixsupra]

Here's the poor man's spanish immersion program. Do voluntry work in the hispanic part of your town, watch spanish tv, listen to spanish radio and cultivate friendships with spanish speakers.