Our Spanish immersion is far south in traditional, colonial Veracruz and right on the ocean.

Veracruz always has been and is today one of the world's safest cities. Come to where it's still very, very safe in Latin America.

One-half block in from the ocean's edge, two blocks from the beach, and three blocks from our small, ocean-going craft, the school is located in a spacious and charming, old, fully air conditioned, colonial home. Along with instruction and Out-and-About Labs, school includes room, meals, and materials.  

Click on the map to go to a waterfront layout.

Day trips--talking-in-Spanish trips--take you to pyramids and other ruins, the third highest mountain peak in North America, scuba and snorkling on the Veracruz coral reef system, river rafting, and dozens and dozens of cities, towns, and villages all different from one another.

The Veracruz Coral Reef System is made up of 15 major reef structures.

This is the northern half of the system. Click on the map to see the entire system.

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Phone:
Our U.S. number is  (415) 939-4388.  This is a San Francisco number that rings right through to us in Veracruz.

Ballet Folklórico is everywhere in Veracruz. On Wednedsay nights a group performs on the malecon.

An overnight trip will take you to the Voladores de Papantla  

Veracruz is 100% alive and always fun. We're close to the harbor, close to the malecon, close to the historic and ever-vibrant downtown, and connected to everywhere with abundant public transportation. You'll never want the day to end. But it's okay because just like today, every tomorrow is also one of the best days of your life.

We invite you to join us for Spanish Immersion.

The School's Address and Phone
The Language Immersion School
Calle Alacio Pérez #61
Col. R. Flores Magón
Veracruz, Ver. Mexico
C.P. 91900
Within Mexico (229) 931-4716,
Within Mexico Cellular (229) 207-1929

Veracruz Is Very Far South In Mexico And Is Very, Very Safe. The heartbreaking, terrible violence up along the border does not affect this part of the country. You can still come to Mexico and be safe--safer than in many other Latin American countries. We're always very happy to discuss safety with you.

Our Veracruz and Spanish Immersion Blog
Click on Our Blog About Veracruz and Immersion on the navigation bar (at the top of this page) to see these blogs and more.

Changing Tires [Veracruz]

Entrega a Casa [Mexico]

“…I felt perfectly safe.” [Veracruz]

Chicken Little Was Right! [Veracruz]

Beautiful Hot Air Balloons [Mexico]

“But Now I Know Firsthand That There Is No Need To Be Worried About Safety.” [Veracruz]

E.R. Medicine in Veracruz [Veracruz]

Things I loved about the Spanish Immersion School in Veracruz [Veracruz]

Outliers [Veracruz]

Reorientation [Mexico]

Now You See It. Now… [Veracruz]

I Didn’t Hear the Whole Story. [Veracruz]

Magnificent Buses [Veracruz]

Just Like in CSI [Veracruz]

Proof of the Pudding [Mexico]

Man’s Best Friend [Veracruz]

Bus and Taxi Service [Veracruz]

Another Terrific Loss [Veracruz]

The First Non-Essential Outing [Veracruz]

A Double Hit [Veracruz]

Shaded Parking [Veracruz]

Very Loud, Very Sharp, Heavily Metallic, BOOOOOM [Veracruz]

“I will be clear- Veracruz was an incredibly safe city to visit.” [Veracruz]

Special Moments [Mexico]

"I would recommend your school to anyone..." [Veracruz]

But be sure to also notice over in the lower left… [Veracruz]

Injured Angel [Veracruz]

“You are so right, Veracruz IS SAFE.” [Veracruz]

Our Hard Working Staff Working Hard [Veracruz]

“Never did I feel my safety was compromised.” [Veracruz]

“Our Family Just Returned from Spending 3 Weeks in Veracruz…” [Veracruz]

We Keep A Low Profile. [Veracruz]

FTD [Mexico]

It Just Keeps Happening. [Veracruz]

--Beginning of status report-- [Veracruz]

Leaving No Stone Unturned [Veracruz]

Doubly Admirable Progress in Veracruz [Veracruz]

Better to Learn from the Experience of Others [Veracruz]

La Bamba [Veracruz]

Pinocchio [Veracruz]

“I felt very safe in the city walking around town at night.” [Veracruz]

Five Weeks of Immersion, for Me [Mexico]

Something Else You Never Knew [Mexico]

I’ve Retired. [Veracruz]

How Long Does It Take To Get a Gig? [Veracruz]

How Exciting Is It? [Veracruz]

“…another wonderful session @ LIS.” [Veracruz]

Harping on What’s Next [Veracruz]

Good morning Linda/Eric [Veracruz]

In These Days So Negative, A Wonderful Positive [Veracruz]

After School on Tuesday [Veracruz]

How You Know You’re Special [Veracruz]

Modernization of the Airport [Veracruz]

Twelve Sleeping Rooms, Fifteen Bathrooms, and … [Veracruz]

“I never had to worry about feeling foolish…” [Veracruz]

Green Eggs and Ham [Mexico]

Outlandish [Veracruz]

This Is Our 300th Blog. [Veracruz]

New Kid on the Block [Veracruz]

Sharing Our Cool Breeze [Veracruz]

Rocker Rewickering [Mexico]

Confession--Veracruz Has Three Flaws [Veracruz]

It Felt Good To Be in Yanga [Mexico]

More and More Popular [Veracruz]

We Have Arrived… [Veracruz]

Sharing Toys [Mexico]

It Looks Bad to Us Foreigners, but It’s Good! [Veracruz]

“…it is ‘buenísima!’” [Veracruz]

Our Private Side [Veracruz]

Sometimes Something Very Special [Veracruz]

X Marks the Spot [Veracruz]

A Stunning Architectural Insight [Mexico]

Putting It in the Shade [Veracruz]

Ocean Travel [Veracruz]

We Finally Got Ours [Veracruz]

Strange Sounds [Veracruz]

Imagine the Odds. [Veracruz]]

A Not Good Idea Taken Too Far [Mexico]

I Worried for Nothing. [Mexico]

That’s a speed bump. [Veracruz]

The Best Books I Ever Read [Veracruz]

A Beautiful Environmental Solution!!! [Veracruz]

Dancing … The Stars [Veracruz]

Got It!!! [Veracruz]

A Cool Hat, And You’re A Popular Guy [Veracruz]

We Don’t Recommend Losing Your Camera, But If You Must… [Veracruz]

“Your Unique Approach Was Fantastic…” [Veracruz]

With Broken Hearts [Mexico]

Eating in the Library [Veracruz]

How You Know You Live In Paradise [Veracruz]

Leo, a Fishy Tale [Veracruz]

The Ultimate in Grocery Delivery Machines [Mexico]

Disaster! No Birthdays [Veracruz]

Jingle Bells from Veracruz [Mexico]

“…The Breakthrough I Was Looking For…” [Veracruz][

For more titles, please see the bottom of the blog page

Become a Speaker of Spanish

• It’s easy to study Spanish; but it’s hard to get speaking.
• Here in Veracruz, a city that’s 100% alive, we make it easy for you to become a Spanish Speaker—to get conversational in Spanish
• In and around Veracruz everywhere you’ll go life is fun and exciting, and you’ll be involved in what’s going on. Those around you will be speaking Spanish, and so, you will too!

Our Primary Focus is to get you Speaking Spanish

• Spanish immersion using our highly successful, non-traditional approach gets you using your Spanish within a day or two of beginning class.
• If you’ve had no prior Spanish, you’ll be carrying on survival conversation in days.
• If you’re medium or advanced, your functional conversational level will skyrocket. You’ll automatically begin adding tenses and complexity to your speaking.
• Beginner or advanced, we’ll have you using however much Spanish you know almost immediately, and we’ll teach you a great deal more.
• Our teaching staff is experienced and academically well prepared. We, the owners, hold U.S. master's degrees (and secondary and community college teaching credentials).
  

Our School’s Study Approach is Non-Traditional

• We start where you are and move forward from there.
• All Out-and-About Labs and all classroom study is small group. All study plans are individualized.
• Classroom study, absolutely very important in its proper place, is a support service to speaking.
• Our housing assures that you'll work with a larger and more varied group of native speakers than you do with traditional homestay.
• Out-and-About Labs, in Veracruz, on the ocean, or out in the countryside, led by our native-Spanish-speaker Charlantes will give you hours of practice each day with the regular folks of Veracruz.
• What you’ll do, where you’ll go, and with whom you’ll talk is designed to compliment your study goals. Each of our six basic Spanish language immersion programs is designed around specific needs.

College Credit and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

• College Credit is available through Pima Community College (phouston@pima.edu) Pima Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
• Continuing Credit Units (CEUs) and college credits through other schools are also available.
• Continuing Education Hours are available through the CBRN (California Board of Registered Nursing.)

Our Seven Basic Spanish Language Immersion Programs

We offer seven basic programs, all absolutely highly serious and successful and all absolutely pure happiness. When you're having fun, you just can't help but speak. Those around you down here speak Spanish, and so you will too!

Intensive Business Spanish Immersion

You’ve studied but you still can’t speak? Be you a businessman or a group of businessmen, a businesswoman or a group of buisnesswomen.

• Become conversational through small group out-and-about labs headed by our school trained Charlantes.
• Practice in your free time with our always-ready-to-chat-while-they're-working staff
• Reinforce your prior study with classroom review given by experienced teaching professionals.
• Enhance your perspectives on international business through business visits (some bilingual but for others the Spanish you're developing will be needed).
• Practice around town in the evenings and in or out of town on the weekends.

Intensive Conversational Spanish Immersion

Have you found that it's easy to learn Spanish but hard to speak Spanish?

• Take all the background you've put together and let us get you talking.
• From the moment you take your first sip of hot coffee or freshly squeezed juice while you sit in the kitchen as staff prepares your breakfast you'll be visiting in Spanish. You'll be able to keep speaking Spanish until late in the evening.
• Starting from where your background ended, you'll build your skills in formal study with our experienced teaching staff.
• The pleasure of talking and visiting in Spanish will be continual as you enjoy Veracruz in our Charlante led Out-and-About Labs.
• With your evenings in town and weekends in or out of town you'll have more hours of happy practice.

Cultural Tourism and Spanish Immersion

Want to vacation in the life of traditional Mexico and at the same time learn basic Spanish or improve your existing Spanish?

• Let us take you into true, old-fashioned Mexico while we teach you the Spanish you need to travel wherever you want to go.
• Visit in-town sites and close by out of town sites with our Charlantes leading small groups in out and about labs.
• Drop in to visit local families and "ma and pa" businesses
• Take day trips and overnight trips to archeological, historical, and arts destinations

Subjunctive Intensive Spanish Immersion

Have you tried to conquer the subjunctive but found it to be a very rough going? Or maybe you have tried to avoid it all together?

• Let us guide you step-by-step to master this (actually not so tough) verb form.
• We approach the subjunctive in conversation where it's much easier to see what's going on and how it compares to English.
• Step by step we work through a small set of preliminaries so that you are fully up to speed on all the prior knowledge needed.
• Then we move into an easy to use, very clear and specific set of rules that lets you know when to use the subjunctive and when not to use it.
• And all along the way we'll practice with you and practice and practice. In short order, conscious control over the subjunctive will begin to convert to automatic.

Mexican Cooking and Spanish Immersion

Do you want to add the spicey hot foods of Mexico to your family and party menus?

• The school's cooking class gives you the recipes and the in-kitchen practice that will let you cook spectacular meals for groups small or large.
• Master different sauces and salsas and come to know the many different chili peppers of Mexico. (Watch out for habanero, it's pure fire.)
• Practice main course dishes for breakfast, la comida (the day's big meal), and la cena (the evening's light meal).
• Appetizers and desserts abound, and so do fruit aguas and other drinks.
• Learn your way around caldo, sopa, and consomme.
• Present traditional, tasty, and exciting meals and include hot homemade tortillas.
• The kitchen speaks Spanish. There'll be lots of language practice to go along with your language study. And there'll be lots of delicious success.

Family Mexico Vacation and Spanish Study

Want to take the whole family on the vacation of a lifetime?

• Everybody in the family who wants to gets Spanish study--it's heavier for the parents and graduates downward in intensity to happy, playful, fun language accquisition for the little ones.
• Visit the acquarium, take a harbor tour, ride the giant banana (staying close enough to shore), build sand castles, and eat hot dogs. Maybe you'll want to snorkel or one or two of you will want scuba lessons. A little river rafting or mountain glacier climbing takes the excitement to even higher elevation.
• And in addition to all the standard, happy vacation items found in and around this vacation city (a city to which Mexicans come for vacation) add cultural experiences (ballet foklórico, donkey carts at work in the street, ruins and pyramids, tiny restaurants, bus trips, and more and more) that let the kids move into the future with broadened perspectives and an enjoyment of diversity.

Adventure and Ecotourism with Spanish Immersion

Want adventure and ecotourism while learning Spanish at the same time?

• You can have a wide variety of outdoor action and lots of different but all incredibly beautiful nature activities while you're starting to learn Spanish
  or improving the Spanish you've already learned.
• Adventures include scuba diving (buceo in Spanish) and snorkeling the coral reef system, whitewater rafting, mountain and glacier climbing and much more. Nature tours and birding can be enjoyed from oceanside to high mountain areas.
• We'll work your Spanish study schedule around adventure and ecotourism activities..
• Participate in adventure and ecotourism activities offered by small, locally owned businesses. You choose the activities you want.
• In addition to adventure and ecotourism you may wish to visit archeological, historical, and arts destinations.
• Veracruz is super for an Adventure Honeymoon.
• Our school supports grassroots conservation and locally owned and offered adventure and ecotourism. We receive no payment of any sort from
  those with whom you spend time. We're loosely, but highly cooperatively, aligned with a number of providers in the state of Veracruz. (We are the
  only non-Mexicans in the group.).

Mix and Match with Spanish Immersion

Are you seeing items in our listing of programs that you wish were part of the program that's best for you?

• Regardless of the program you choose, you're always welcome to dip into other programs and enjoy their events. It's all Spanish; it's all about speaking better, communicating better, and going where your happiness and sense of adventure takes you will bring to you and to us the very best final results. So look through everything and learn to speak Spanish having more fun than you ever expected.

Intensive English Study

Are you a Spanish-Speaker who needs intensive study in English?

• Using the same highly successful approach we have for Spanish language immersion, we also offer Spanish-Speakers the opportunity to come to school to develop and improve their English.
• We offer instruction and practice at all levels--beginner to highly advanced.
• The English accent in the school is standard U.S. English.

Programa de Inglés Intensivo

¿Es usted un hispano hablante que necesita estudiar inglés intensivo?

• Usamos los mismos métodos que han logrado un gran éxito en nuestros estudiantes extranjeros aprendiendo el español, también ofrecemos la oportunidad de venir a la escuela para desarrollar e incrementar su nivel de inglés
• Ofrecemos enseñanza y prácticas en todos los niveles-- desde principiantes hasta avanzados.
• El accento de la escuela es el Inglés estándar de EE.UU.

Extracurriculars

Here is some out-of-school study you might want to consider. All of it happens in Spanish, and so all of it contributes to you language development.

• Playing Mexican Marimba, Guitar, Harp, Jarana, and other musical instruments of
  Mexico (including voice)
• Ballet Folklórico de Mexico
• Salsa Lessons, and Tango Lessons.
• Gym with a Personal Trainer
• Scuba Lessons
• Jarana Making

Free Time Activities

• scuba diving the Veracruz Coral Reef (a Mexico National Park)
• snorkeling the Veracruz Coral Reef (a Mexico National Park)
• swimming in the Gulf of Mexico
• whitewater rafting on some of the best rivers in Mexico
• ocean kayaking in the Gulf of Mexico
• mountain and glacier climbing on the highest peak in Mexico
• visiting archaeological pyramids and ruins of ancient Mexico
• visiting out of the way places--nooks and crannies around the state of Veracruz
• boating on the Gulf of Mexico
• deep sea fishing on the Gulf of Mexico
• road and mountain biking
• and if you're about to get married, an adventure wedding honeymoon vacation

Oaxaca, Puebla, Chiapas, Teotihuacan, Palenque, El Tajin, and much more of Mexico

In addition to all the wonderful day and overnight trips you can take, if you can stay in Mexico a little while longer these are some two and three night trips you might want to consider.

• Veracruz is a transportation hub. Traveling to these fascinating destinations by bus is easy, and you'll get lots of opportunity to practice your Spanish.
• If you're only with us a couple of weeks you'll probably prefer day and overnight trips, and there are so many places to go that are less than a three hour bus ride away.

Veracruz, the city, is located in the state of Veracruz. Here's a look around.  Veracruz, Mexico the city Veracruz, Mexico the state The University of Veracruz The Symphonic Orchesta of Xalapa The Aquarium of Veracruz Veracruz Magazzine Scuba diving Mountain and glacier climbing

SITEMAP--We have navigation bars on all principal pages, but in case it's of help to you, we've included this sitemap.

Photos and Pictures of Old Veracruz   click for more

The docks at Veracruz always have been very busy. Here's a great shot of loading and unloading cargo. A it was back them, today the docks are visible from the malecon in el Centro. Students studying Spanish at The Language Immersion School enjoy watching the shipping.

A Public Service from our Spanish Immersion Side--It Works Because of You.

Veracruz has treated us, our language immersion school, and our students wonderfully. As a totally free public service, the school maintains a books-in-English lending library. The books are available to anyone and everyone in Veracruz who reads well enough in English to enjoy them. Right now the library has over 550 titles. Most are recent (and sometimes even current) bestsellers--page-turners that are hard to put down.

One of the easiest ways to improve a second language is to read (and read and read). We constantly look for ways to make the library more and more useful to everyone.

To take a look at the library catalog, copy and paste this url into your browser. www.veracruzenglishlibrary.com

The library is one of the ways we say thanks to Veracruz for letting us be here, and for making being here such a happy and successful experience for our students of Spanish.

Here are a few recently added titles.

• Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
• One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
• Pity the Billionaire by Thomas Frank
• Extreme Measures by Vince Flynn
• Cold River by Carla Neggers
• The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl
• Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
• An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky
• The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
• Desert Heat by Kat Martin