322 Vista del Mar Suite B,
Redondo Beach, CA 90277
310.378.1086
Languages Offered:
ARABIC
ENGLISH
CHINESE
FRENCH
GERMAN
ITALIAN
MANDARIN
JAPANESE
SPANISH
We also offer E.S.L.
Adult Summer Courses
3 weeks Intense Sessions
Scheduled to accommodate vacations
Each 3 week session will complete 9 hours of instructions
Light and Easy
Intro Level (no background) (3 weeks)
French/ Spanish /Italian/ Chinese (Mandarin)/ Japanese
Off to Paris or Rome for a quick visit? Always wanted to learn a foreign language but never had the right opportunity? This is the course for you. During the 3 week course, you’ll learn enough to make the most of your stay and enough to decide if this is the right challenge for you. Summer is the perfect time to “get your feet wet”. Join a stress-free, beginning-level class and dabble in a little “je ne sais quoi”. A light, commitment-free, summer evening or Saturday morning distraction that helps you keep your promise to learn a foreign language on day.
Conversation Builder
Upper beginner – intermediate (2 to 4 college semesters) (3 weeks)
“I can understand a lot but I get all tongue tied when I try to speak”
If this sounds like you Savoir-Faire Language Institute has the perfect summer course to get your speaking more fluently. This course uses many conversation techniques and reviews to provide bountiful opportunities for you to speak fluently. In three quick weeks you will find foreign language flowing with much more ease from you rather than stuttering and sputtering. Culturally interesting video segments will be used to improve your ability to understand a variety of native speakers. A comfortable yet structured class designed to help you reach greater conversation skills.
Language and Culture
Upper intermediate-Advanced (4 semester college +) (3 weeks)
What a better source of language to inspire and boost your speaking level… than current events!? These summer courses will use the news paper, the internet, classic literature of today and yesterday and movies to inspire your language learning. Rollicking conversations, jokes and debates led by our passionate teachers characterized these summer Language & Culture classes. The advanced grammar you study is applied in increasingly challenging strategies and techniques that encourage you to begin to “think” in the language you are learning. After participating in these activities, students find language flows from their brain to their tongues more automatically. It takes, surprisingly, little time to dredge up old language experiences. The native speaking teacher acts as a facilitator who, corrects, teaches mini-lessons and provides material for interesting and thought-provoking conversations. The conversations will demand advanced constructions from students. If you are a rusty upper-intermediate to advanced speaker or if you want to take your language skills to the next level, this is the course for you!
Per week sessions (minimum 4 weeks)
1:30 hour per week - choose your starting and ending dates
From June 21 to August 28 - no class the week of July 4 to July 10
UPPER BEGINNER Level 1 & 1.5
1 to 2 years high school, 1 college semester (4 weeks)
At a beginning level, new information must be presented clearly in an organized manner and repeated and practiced often. Our teachers encourage your questions and are happy to re-teach until you feel comfortable. Comfortable and successful students accelerate! We apply our 15 years of experience to create mini-conversational opportunities so students can orally practice just what they know. You are never out of your depth. We know what it takes for a successful beginning class, a relaxed, social atmosphere, effective practice activities and empathetic teachers. You will be impressed with how well you and your fellow students can converse when you have completed the first year 85% immersion
LOW INTERMEDIATE Level 2 & 2.5
4 years high school, 2+ college semesters (4 weeks)
Our commitment to conversational practice continues in the second year. By the end of level 2, find yourself quite confidently discussing with a fellow student something you saw on the news – entirely in a foreign language! More and more opportunities are provided for you to simply, “make yourself understood” or in other words, apply, as creatively as you can, the structures and vocabulary you are learning in the textbook curriculum. Powerful techniques such as, SF’s “No English Spoken” are introduced. This technique gets students comfortable using the language they have in contexts – just like in real life! 90% immersion
INTERMEDIATE Level 3 & 3.5
3+ college semesters (4 weeks)
Rollicking conversations, jokes and debates led by our passionate teachers characterize the end of level 3. The advanced grammar you study in the textbook are applied in increasingly challenging strategies and techniques that encourage you to begin to “think” in a foreign language. After participating in these activities, students find language lows from their brain to their tongues more automatically. It takes surprising little time to dredge up old language experiences. It you are a rusty intermediate speaker, this is the course to bring it all back! 95% immersion
ADVANCED
4+ college semesters (4 weeks)
Speaking like a native is the goal of our advanced levels. These are very social classes where students become friends and use foreign language to interact socially. The native speaking teacher acts as a facilitator, correcting, teaching mini lessons and providing material for interesting and provoking conversations that demand ore advanced constructions from students. Classes meet weekly for conversation and often form a “lunch club”. Perfect for students who have lived in a foreign county but did not reach native-like fluency or have 5 years of college or more. 100% immersion