El Patio Spanish Language School


Spanish Language School


Melbourne's best Spanish school!

Learn fast in the CBD or Northcote

El Patio specialises in Spanish, with short courses for beginners through to proficient. We pride ourselves on our healthy numbers of continuing students at advanced levels. Classes are small, serious but fun, and are suitable for those wishing to become fluent in Spanish, for travellers, partners of Spanish-speakers, and those who want to train their brain.

New 5-week courses start May 28
Discounts to midnight Sun May 20!

Enrol online for a further $5 off. Click Enrol online to take you through our easy online enrolment process!

5-wk Rápido Language courses (15 hrs), both centres

5-wk Spanish for Travel (7.5 hrs), both centres

5-wk Verb Workshop 1 (7.5 hrs), both centres

  • Sat 11.30-1pm at Northcote (start June 2)
  • Mon 7.45-8.15pm at Melbourne (start July 16)
  • fill the gaps in your verb knowledge!
  • sharpen your conjugation skills
  • we cover present tense, a thorough revision of irregular verbs, gustar-type verbs, reflexives, as well as the first two past tenses: the perfect and simple past (indefinido).
  • good for Upper Elementary 2 and above, Lower Intermediate or even Upper Intermediate students!
  • verb workshop course description
  • timetable melbourne
  • timetable northcote

5-wk Conversation Elementary 1-3 (7.5 hrs), both centres

5-wk Conversation Upper Elementary 1-3 (7.5 hrs), Melbourne

Term 3 starts July 21
Timetable available now!

Choose your level and your centre, view timetables

5- or 10-wk Language courses (15 hrs), both centres


About our courses

10-week (1.5hr/wk) language courses run four times a year in Terms, as well as Summer Intensives. Our popular 5-week (3hr/wk) Rápido courses are offered twice a Term in our Melbourne centre. 5-week Spanish for Travel courses - for those going to Spain or Latin America - commence 8 times a year. 5-week Conversation courses and Verb Workshops are also offered each Term for consolidating your Spanish and to practise, at differing levels. Read more ...

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All of our teachers are professionals in language instruction, and our class programmes are guided by the levels described by the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR), which maps out the progression of language levels at successive stages. Read more about the CEFR..

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Spanish in a Suitcase coverA beginner Spanish method for travel - packed full of audio and ready to go.

Use it as a supplement to any course, or as a standalone method.


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$24.99

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El Patio's free podcast..

Spanish in a Minute! - our weekly podcast takes you through the very basics in snappy little one-minute episodes. Read more ...
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Term dates 2012

Term 2, 2012: Apr 23 - Jun 30
Term 3, 2012: Jul 16 - Sep 22
Term 4, 2012: Oct 8 - Dec 15