The Spanish learning experience

Ateneo 21 was established to provide the best conditions to enhance learning motivation. Quality, innovation and efficiency are integral part of our Spanish courses. The approach is based on the following principles:


Hands-on practical approach (or task based learning)

You'll learn through practice while in conversation in real life situations at every level of learning. For example, you will leave the first Spanish lesson being able to introduce yourself and a friend, give personal information and ask questions to someone else. As the lesson progresses you will gradually learn the vocabulary, expressions and grammar involved. Most class time is devoted to opportunities for participants speak. 



Topic based Spanish lessons


Spanish lessons are topic based as once you know the context it’s far easier to learn the initial vocabulary, expressions and grammar, even without translation. Then you will practice, watching and listening to Spanish media and taking the time to focus on grammar-understanding this is important. Through these steps you consolidate your learning. At the end of the Spanish lesson you will use the language you’ve learned creatively to tackle a task in the real world.

Use of authentic situations and materials


Your tutor will speak in Spanish from the first lesson. And you will learn using authentic Spanish language media (films, newspapers, videos, songs, TV, radio, telephone conversations); that is, all of the means of communication that you will come across from day one when abroad or when with Spanish speakers.

Socio-cultural thematic approach

Spanish lessons have both a linguistic and socio-cultural objective. We aim to interest as well as teach our students. We have found that by using real-life examples and looking at the political, economic or social set up in a country we can inspire better learning. If you learn through doing something that you would do in your own language anyway, you will learn faster.

Practice outside the classroom

It’s easy to find the chance to practise your Spanish outside the classroom. We will encourage you to take classroom strategies to potential language learning events around you. So you can start building the bridge between the classroom and the real world. We will provide a framework for out of class learning.

Universal Spanish


We teach general Spanish as it is currently spoken and written in Spain, taking important Latin-American variations into consideration -if you need to know them. Educated language if the same everywhere -as it is in English. And you have to be able to understand accents from all countries.

Cutting edge learning experience


Ateneo 21 is committed to providing a professional learning experience recognising the need to respond to your needs and your development as courses progress. We invest a great deal of personal dedication in doing our job well. And we design lessons by drawing on a strong degree of imagination and constantly develop materials to guarantee excellent teaching.