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El Patio is Melbourne's most popular language school!
What makes learning at El Patio so great:
- Outstanding teachers
- Over 100 classes per Term
- Friendly school
- Flexible timetable
- Face-to-Face, Online, and Hybrid delivery
- Our lessons are fun!
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What are our classes like?
You're going to love our classes and teachers! El Patio has over 20 years’ experience specialising in Spanish, with courses for everyone – from beginners through to fluency. All our teachers are qualified professionals. Classes are small (5–14 students), rigorous, and fun!
We offer three class formats:
- Face-to-Face (in person in our centres)
- Online (via Zoom)
- Hybrid (Online and Face-to-Face at the same time!)
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Students say...
"After becoming frustrated at my lack of progress with their competitor, I received a recommendation for the classes at El Patio. Since enrolling I have never looked back, the teachers are knowledgeable, the students are great, the classes are fun, and my Spanish quickly improved enough to converse confidently with the locals when I arrived in Latin America."
- Angela Hayhurst
"Love El Patio! Been going for a few years now and have been consistently impressed by all the teachers and facilities. Hybrid (face-to-face and online) classes are working incredibly well."
- Geoff Lynch
"I have been studying at El Patio (Northcote branch) for quite a few years and love it. As a retired teacher, I know good teaching when I see it, and the teachers at El Patio are absolutely wonderful - caring, professional and fun. The class I am in has developed a great sense of unity and camradarie and I love going to it."
- Kathy Chambers
"I love the hybrid classes! It gives me the option to still go to class if I get home late from work, am super tired or am sick (important coming into winter/flu season). The flexibility is such a great thing and the setup of the classes seems to be working really well."
- Upper Intermediate 5 student
"Noryan is great with Zoom and I don’t think we miss anything from face-to-face interaction."
- Lower Intermediate 5 student
"The teachers are excellent and the lessons are well paced, not too fast or slow. I'd previously tried learning Spanish with a well-know language app, but found it slow going and not useful for real life. I've learned more in 5 lessons at El Patio than I did with 3 months of daily app use. So happy I've found this place."
- C. Angus
What you learn...
En estos niveles de Advanced (1-6) vamos a trabajar con las siguientes estructuras verbales - entre otras muchas.
Advanced 1
- Uso y formas de los tiempos del pasado
- Usos de la voz pasiva
- Construcciones impersonales
- Contraste entre presente de indicativo y presente de subjuntivo para expresar opiniones y creencias
- Recursos para robar el turno de palabra
Advanced 2
- Algunos usos del condicional
- Uso del pretérito imperfecto de subnjuntivo
- Usos de por y para
- Correlación de distintos tiempos verbales en oraciones de relativo
- Verbos de cambio (volverse, quedarse, hacerse, convertirse en ... )
Advanced 3
- Otros recursos para formar oraciones de relativo
- Usos de se en oraciones impersonales
- Usos del infinitivo compuesto
- Pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo
- Construcciones pasivas e impersonales en futuro
Advanced 4
- Describir acciones con adjetivos, adverbios, gerundios,
- Diferentes usos de verbos pronominales
- Estilo indirecto
- Usos de se para expresar involuntariedad
- adjetivos con prefijos
Advanced 5
- Marcadores y construcciones temporales
- Usos del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo y de subjuntivo
- Usos del gerundio
- El futuro compuesto
- Recursos para cohensionar textos
Advanced 6
- Las subordinadas concesivas
- Maneras de reformular y ejemplificar
- Combinaciones de pronombres
- El pretérito pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo
- El condicional compuesto
Textbooks are required for all Advanced levels
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