For Ages: 14 - 17 years old
Absolute Beginner to Advanced Spanish
Supervised program 

The Spanish and Basque study center is located the center of San Sebastian, the cultural capital of the Basque region of Spain. The Center has developed an excellent methodology for teaching teens a foreign language, and has a very strong teacher training program to ensure that all teachers are kept up to date with the latest methodologies. Additionally, teachers attend special seminars where ideas are exchanged and analyzed, and discussion is carried out regarding latest advances advances in: methodology, internal training, management, and teaching materials for different types of students.

Complete with a terrace, a communal area with a library, multimedia computers and video, and air conditioning, the school has a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere.
Students are placed with a specially selected Spanish family with teenage sons or daughters. Most host families have been collaborating with the Institute for several years and have hosted students numerous times. Participants are closely supervised by the Institute and also by the host families. They must abide by the same rules families impose upon their own children.

A family resort town of long standing, San Sebastian rests on the bay of La Concha in northwestern Spain, is surrounded by rolling low hills and has three very nice beaches to choose from. The average temperature in summer is around 22Cº/72Fº, with winter coming in at 8Cº/47Fº.

San Sebastian is not short on festivals either, with something new happening all year round: a Jazz Festival, International Film Festival and Horror Film Festival, and of course Carnival.