Enrollment is open to students on all levels of accomplishment, on a year-round basis, with individual programs of study for advanced students. The Academia Hispano Americana is located four blocks from the main square in beautiful San Miguel de Allende. Their intensive study sessions are designed to give students complete instruction in the Spanish language and a knowledge of various aspects of Latin American culture. In the teaching of the language, the emphasis is on the speaking of Spanish. The School's method stresses the absorption of Spanish through programmed presentation, constant use and carefully guided conversation.
All teachers change classes hourly and speak Spanish as their native language.
The program of Latin American themes includes lectures, seminars, research work and active participation in local activities. Built on the side of a hill 6,400 feet above sea level, it looks west 40 miles across the valley to the mountains of Guanajuato. They find the air clean and the life tranquil, a place for study and creative thinking. Year-round there are fiestas which bring the famed Conchero dancers to San Miguel to celebrate traditional occasions with music, elaborate fireworks and dancing. In addition there are bullfights, rodeos, dances, tennis, golf, horseback riding and swimming in hot thermal springs.