Our approach to teaching language is organic. Student acquisition of linguistic structures and concepts is activated through a process of progressive repetition. In class student progress is marked through the repetition of increasingly difficult concepts and structures. In the classroom students and teacher all interact within the context of conversation and the atmosphere is cozy and the dynamic created very much like what happens in real-life conversation. Small groups instruction is available through a number of various programs.
Courses generally consist of a minimum total of ten three-hour classes.
The number of classes a student attends may vary anywhere from one a week to as many as eight to ten. Classes are divided into two parts. The first hour or third consists in the discussion of a grammatical concept, idiomatic expressions, vocabulary and themes. The assimilation of these concepts is always done in the context of conversation and for visual aid students are given copies of the material covered in class. The remaining class time consists in free-flowing conversation during the course of which the teacher may intervene to correct students' mistakes, recapitulate, or act as a moderator and introduce new themes.