Calendar
The full course includes four levels and takes approximately eight months to complete, level one being little to no working Spanish, and level four being near-native fluency. If you think that you may be able to enter in at any other level than Level One then you’ll need to fill out the placement evaluation that you can download and send back to us from the Applying and Placement page link located above. There is also a level five class offered when there are two or more students for the class. This level is designed to give ample time to perfect the more challenging parts of the language, increase fluency, colloquialisms, deeper theological terminology, oral spontaneous translating, and anything else that the particular group of students may need. It also works well as a refresher course for those already serving. If you’re interested in level five then please contact us to see when we’ll be offering it, hopefully every date that’s shown below. Take a look at what students have said about it on the Comments tab above!
We welcome those who would like to visit and see the school in action and the mission base that we’re located on, as well as our local fishing village. At times we have excursions out of the school for a day or more, cooperating with our Clinic on an indigenous mountain village medical brigade. These occasions and also test days aren’t the best for a visit. Contact us if you’d like to come, and we’ll advise you on when we’ll be doing these events. We teach all five levels at the same time, therefore each student may begin their first, second, third, fourth or fifth level classes at any of the dates listed below. We’d love to see you here as the Lord guides!
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2025 Dates
January 6 – February 21
March 3 – April 18
April 28 – June 13
June 23 – August 8
September 1 – October 17
October 27 – December 12
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2026 Dates
January 5 – February 20
March 2 – April 17
April 27 – June 12
June 22 – August 7
September 2 – October 16
October 26 – December 11
Our village is small, 1,000+ people, and most of the roads are dirt roads, with lots of small businesses and fishermen. We live among our local folks in homes and apartments just like the ones that they live in. Here, using Google Maps, you can click on the link below and get a visual of El Cacalote. There’s also a map at the bottom of the Safety tab above.