San José el Viejo Spanish School

San José el Viejo teaches individual Spanish lessons beside the ruins of the colonial chapel that gives the school its name. The campus is three blocks south of Antigua Guatemala’s Central Plaza. Its main programme pairs each student with a teacher, giving the two of them time to work directly on reading, speaking or a point of grammar that needs more practice.

A week of individual Spanish

The school offers half-day and full-day study. The full timetable runs across five weekdays and includes a morning session and a second teaching period after lunch. In the full-day format, the break gives students an opportunity to use the morning's vocabulary around Antigua before returning to the classroom. Teachers normally rotate from one week to the next. A student staying for more than a week can therefore hear another speaker and work with a different teaching style while continuing individual tuition.

Finding the campus in Antigua

The school is at 34 Quinta Avenida Sur. The chapel ruins are a useful landmark for the first walk from the central plaza. A student comparing the two timetables can use this central location in different ways. The half-day programme leaves more time to explore Antigua, while the fuller schedule puts a larger share of each day into guided language practice.