In-Person Courses

General Spanish Immersion

Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco is a language school recognized for the high quality of its Spanish (and K’iche) instruction. Our intensive Spanish course is entirely personalized (one-on-one teaching) and is focused on the student learning communication skills for daily life. In this way, students acquire competency in Spanish expression and comprehension (oral, written, and listening). The course is taught by a team of teachers who have extensive and recognized experience teaching Spanish. PLQ’s teachers use methodological and didactic concepts to create a teaching-learning process that is dynamic and fun, and that makes learning Spanish interactive and fast from the first day.

Furthermore, the course allows students to discover the rich culture and history of Guatemala through different class activities (conversations, readings, etc.). PLQ students also learn Spanish in a context in which they can participate in social, cultural, political, and sports activities, which provide practical opportunities to use the language skills being acquired.

This is our most common enrollment and is offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela and La Escuela de la Montaña.

All of our classes at PLQ in Xela are currently offered from 8AM-1PM, Monday to Friday. Classes run on a weekly basis beginning on Mondays and ending with graduation on Fridays. Students may choose to study for just one week at time or for multiple weeks/months.

Career-specific emphases

Spanish for Healthcare

Our Spanish-for-Healthcare emphasis is directed towards healthcare professionals: doctors, nurses, midwives, medical students, paramedics, and all those who work in the healthcare sector.

The program focuses on teaching students language skills for real-life situations, so that they will be able to communicate in Spanish with their patients and interpret diagnoses, symptoms, and treatments in Spanish. The health terminology taught in the course includes: anatomy, symptoms, names of illnesses, and medical tests and treatments.

This emphasis is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela.

All of our classes run on flexible timelines; students may choose to register for as many weeks as they’d like.

Legal Spanish

Our Legal Spanish emphasis is directed towards law students, lawyers, judges, public defenders and prosecutors, and other workers in the judicial sphere. The course will allow students to communicate using legal language and terminology, understand legal arguments and texts, write documents using Spanish judicial vocabulary, and communicate with clients. Students will also learn about the Guatemalan legal system and the institutions that comprise it. The course includes the possibility of a practice visit to a court, law office, or other office related to the judicial world.

This emphasis is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela.

All of our classes run on flexible timelines; students may choose to register for as many weeks as they’d like.

Spanish for Social Work

Our Spanish-for-Social Work emphasis is directed towards social workers, educators, community organizers, activists, and students of social work and other social sciences. This course focuses on increasing oral and written knowledge of the Spanish most necessary for the social work sector. The course includes specific vocabulary pertinent to socio-cultural themes, such as migration and the situation of Latino populations, and a focus on oral communication, both comprehension and expression. The course will include the possibility of a practice visit to an organization working in the area.

This emphasis is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela.

All of our classes run on flexible timelines; students may choose to register for as many weeks as they’d like.

Latin American History

The primary purpose of this emphasis is to explore the history of cultural inheritance and political movements in Latin America, from pre-Spanish invasion to the present. Because the course is taught in Guatemala, we focus primarily on Guatemalan and Central American history, although students will be exposed to common historical developments and cultural characteristics shared throughout Latin America.

As well as learning through texts and films, the course will include the possibility of guest lectures by Guatemalan historians and anthropologists and excursions to museums, archeological sites, historical monuments, and local cultural events. There also may be opportunities for exchange with Guatemalans from diverse backgrounds with regard to race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, religion, gender, and sexual orientation.

This emphasis is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela.

All of our classes run on flexible timelines; students may choose to register for as many weeks as they’d like.

Latin American Literature

This emphasis offers an introduction to contemporary Latin American literature, focusing on 20th century writing and focusing on the relationship between literature and social change. Students will read poetry, short stories, plays, testimonial literature, and at least one contemporary novel. Through literary analysis, students will learn about the region’s history, politics, human rights, social activism, and gender roles through the lens of fictitious and non-fictitious characters – and above all, through the voices of female Latin American writers, who represent the women of this continent.

The emphasis will also include an analysis of realism and Central American testimony literature. The course will include the possibility of trips to the theater and cinema, as well as talks with local writers invited by the teacher.

This emphasis is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela.

All of our classes run on flexible timelines; students may choose to register for as many weeks as they’d like.

Intensive K’iche’

In Guatemala, K´iche´ is the most widely spoken Mayan language (with over 1 million Guatemalans speak K´iche´, forming 7% of the population), and it is spoken in 84 of the 335 towns and cities, in 7 of Guatemala´s 22 departments.

The course is taught one-on-one, and the teaching method is based on the premise that one best learns another language like a native tongue, by speaking; the students and the instructor will speak the language that is being studied. Eduardo Elías, long-time PLQ teacher, guides the K´iche´ course, based on 25 plus years of academic and linguistic study. Eduardo is multilingual (Spanish, K’iche’, English), and has native fluency and pronunciation, university degrees, and a high-level grasp of pertinent linguistic and socio-cultural themes relevant to K’iche’.

This thorough preparation guarantees a steady and enjoyable progression for those who participate in the course.

The course is structured and presented in a manageable way, progressively studying the language’s grammatical structure in order to be able to apply it practically and functionally. In addition, the course contains a social-cultural-historical focus centered on the unique thinking and vision of the K´iche´ community.

This course is only offered at Proyecto Lingüístico Quetzalteco in Xela, not at La Escuela de la Montaña.

All of our classes at PLQ in Xela are currently offered from 8AM-1PM, Monday to Friday. Classes run on a weekly basis beginning on Mondays and ending with graduation on Fridays. Students may choose to study for just one week at time or for multiple weeks/months.

Spanish Classes Online

To sign up

Choose one of our programs and fill out a registration form

Now you can learn Spanish from your own home with PLQ ONLINE!

With PLQ Online, you can improve your grammar, pronunciation and conversation skills through one-on-one online lessons. We welcome new students as well as students who have previously studied at PLQ in Guatemala. Our professional, experienced teachers and our advanced technology provide the best study experience over the web.

Some of the advantages of learning Spanish online are that you can:

Organize your own schedule
Learn practical Spanish (i.e. popular expressions)
Have real, informal conversations
Stay up-to-date with social and political news in Guatemala
Pay a low price
Study with teachers you already know

There is no registration fee. Classes are offered Monday-Friday, 8am-7pm (Local time). You can study for as many or as few hours as you like. If you are not satisfied with your first class, there is no charge and the class is free. To get started, email us at onlineplq@gmail.com or make a reservation by filling out the registration form. Please, do not send any payment before contacting us and receiving confirmation of availability.

Costs for PLQ Online:

Five Hours Instruction – $95.00

Ten Hours Instruction – $180.00

Twenty Hours Instruction – $340.00