SPANISH

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All Spanish classes at Lorenzen Studios will be taught in a simulated immersion style, using as close to 100% Spanish as possible. The professor will be Dr. Charla Lorenzen, who holds a PhD in Foreign Language Education and taught college-level Spanish classes for 25 years. She will speak a variety of Latin American Spanish, but will expose the students to regional variations, including those of Castilian Spanish from Spain and throughout Latin America.

Students will engage in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural learning and they will be assigned homework to complete each week. Several no-cost technologies will be used, and students are encouraged to bring a laptop, tablet, or phone to each class in order to use these technologies. At all levels, students will most likely be able to comprehend more than they can produce, and they will learn how to embrace uncertainty and engage in the negotiation of meaning. 

A group of people sitting around a table in a fun and immersive Spanish language class at Lorenzen Studios, engaged in discussion and taking notes. There are whiteboards and sticky notes on the walls. The atmosphere is collaborative and educational.
A large, light blue oval shape on a blank background; a single image to represent Level One (the beginner level) in our language classes at Lorenzen Studios.

BEGINNING SPANISH

Students will learn to express basic personal information and communicate with others - often by answering simple questions - using words, lists, and formulaic phrases in the context of concrete and familiar situations.

Three light blue overlapping circles forming a clover shape on a white background; an expanded image to represent Level Two (the intermediate level) in our language classes at Lorenzen Studios.

INTERMEDIATE SPANISH

Students will learn to participate in short conversations on predictable topics of personal interest, ask and answer questions, and successfully complete everyday interactions using sentence-level communication.

A metallic double ring with gemstone accents; an even more expansive image to represent Level Three (the advanced level) in our language classes at Lorenzen Studios.

ADVANCED SPANISH

Students will learn to participate in interactions on topics of both personal and broader interest, narrate and describe in present, past, and future time frames, and handle more complicated and abstract situations using paragraph-level communication.

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Our next session starts mid-October

〰️ Our next session starts mid-October

In-person classes for adults

8-week sessions in an immersion style

$130 for 8 weeks

Beginner 1 Oct 19 - Dec 7

Mondays 7-8 PM details & registration here

Beginner 2 Oct 20 - Dec 8

Tuesdays 7-8 PM details & registration here

Intermediate Oct 21 - Dec 9

Wednesdays 7-8 PM details & registration here

Advanced Oct 22 - Dec 16

Thursdays 7-8 PM details & registration here

(no class 11/26)

Contact us to arrange private or semi-private tutoring

Our affordable Spanish classes for adults are a ton of fun!

Each class is one hour in length.

We have no official placement exam, but feel free to ask for support.

Students will receive a detailed welcome email one week in advance.

Each session has a fun and useful final activity and classes that build up to that ability.

Students can repeat the same level as many times as they’d like.

Our studio serves students in the Harrisburg, York, Hershey, and Lancaster PA areas.