Classes are small, up to 12 students, but on average only 6 or 7, and teaching duties are shared by two teachers per group. Courses are year-round. The largest of the three institutions is the Scuola Leonardo da Vinci with branches in Florence, Rome and Sienna. The school also offers classes in Art History, Cooking and Art. Germany's own government provides instruction via its Goethe Institutes, of which more than 140 are found in 70 countries, and 18 are maintained in Germany itself.
Prices vary widely, according to length and type of program and location.
The U.S.-based branch will then forward your completed form to the Goethe Institute you've selected. For Spanish Salamanca is the place. Without a second thought. It is the heart of Old Castile, where Spanish is noble and pure, untainted by the Gallego accents of the Northwest, the Catalan of the East, the assorted dialects of the South. Because students are from dozens of countries scattered from Japan to Yemen, the only common language among them is Spanish.