Homestays are carefully selected and offer students the opportunity to learn more about the local culture in a comfortable setting while studying Spanish in Cartagena de Indias. These homes are often between 5 - 10 minutes away from the school by public transport. Families usually offer affordable meal plans that allow you to sample the local cuisine. If you have special requests or diet restrictions (because of religion or health reasons), please let us know in advance. Your housing starts on the Sunday before your first day of class and ends on the Saturday after your last day of class, unless otherwise noted. Learn more about homestay housing
BABEL International Language Institute Cartagena offers you a perfect location in the heart of the old town – surrounded by the colonial city wall, just next to the oldest neighborhood of Getsemaní. The school is located between the beautiful and bustling Square of the Trinity (Plaza de la Trinidad) and the vibrating street “Media Luna”.
Around the school, one can experience the very core of local life, in particular of the “Getsemanicenses” (residents of Gestsemaní). The square of the Trinity is the star each day, being the meeting point for locals and visitors alike, where the social and cultural life is celebrated. Together with the narrow streets of the neighborhood, its inhabitants and much more, this makes Getsemaní such a unique place in the world – and always worth a visit.
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About the certificate, you can see our facebook page where there are Photos about
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The 30 hours course is 20 hours group lessons + 10 hours private (which would help
go deeper in the contents studied in the group lessons and work in the
students weaknesses. The Bildungsurlaub is a certification we have been trying to get from
germany, but first we need somebody (potencial client) that would ask this
school to be part of it. Anyways we are working on it and we should get it
soon. Nevertheless we can provide the 30 hours programs and cover
political training throught the classes contents and tests.
About Bildungsurlaub, we can easily get this but there is a different process for
each German State and could take some time to have all of them. We will
need first to know from which state are the students requesting this
service, so we can issue the documentation in the right state. The booking
dead-line for this specific case is 4 months prior to the student's
arrival in Cartagena. We can maybe get the certification faster than that,
but sometimes the employer requests us to have the certification issued 2
or 3 months before the arrival of the student in the school.