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.
Term 1 starts next week, Jan 30!
Start learning now! Classes are filling, call to enrol, or do it online for $5 off.
10-wk Language courses (15 hrs), both centres
- our famous and reliable core language courses
- build your Spanish from scratch!
- pathway to fluency with many levels
- all levels course descriptions
- timetable term 1 melbourne / timetable term 1 northcote
5-wk Rápido courses (15 hrs), Jan/Feb, Melbourne centre only
- move your Spanish along at twice the pace
- new Rápido Elementary 1 just added, Wed 6-9pm
- Jan/Feb start for 5 weeks
- rápido courses are exactly the same in content as our 15-hr courses
- rápido timetable melbourne
5-wk Spanish for Travel (7.5 hrs), Jan/Feb, both centres
- starts Tue Jan 31, Thu Feb 2 at Melbourne
- travel timetable melbourne
- starts Wed Feb 1, Sat Feb 4, at Northcote
- travel timetable northcote
5-wk Pronouns (7.5 hrs), Northcote centre only
- starts Sat Feb 4 at Northcote
- clear up problems with those little words!
- suited to Upper Elementary 2 and above
- pronoun course description
- timetable northcote
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 ...
El pasillo en El Patio Northcote y El Patio Melbourne
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..
Enrol online for less..
$5 off any course if you enrol online with your credit card. Current or ex-students log in first, otherwise just jump in!
Our eBook on sale now!
A 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.
For iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch
$24.99

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Gift vouchers
Of course! Surprise someone with a gift voucher for a Spanish course, or part of one. Or have them surprise you! Read more..
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
Summer Intensive: Jan 16-27
Term 1, 2012: Jan 30 - Apr 5
Term 2, 2012: Apr 23 - Jun 30
Term 3, 2012: Jul 16 - Sep 22
Term 4, 2012: Oct 8 - Dec 15




