The courses, which run for nine weeks, are offered in French, Cantonese, Mandarin, German, Bulgarian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Hindi, Greek and Japanese. But short courses are a good primer. Munoz has created a style of teaching called the Creative Natural Approach which includes lots of role-playing. She also offers longer courses. Despite the demise of Canadian Airlines, the company's popular language courses continue.
Students are usually on their feet conversing or role-playing.
While the style of learning is untraditional, students say it works. Class size is limited to a maximum of 16 students. The instructors are all native speakers and certificates are issued at the end. Lonely Planet publishes phrase books in 52 languages from French and Spanish to Burmese and Quechua. I found their Indonesian phrase book indispensable.