Location

825 Legion Way SE (rear entrance), Olympia WA 98501

Our location has its own parking lot. Students are welcome to park there for free.

Online students attend via Zoom.

2024 Advanced Spanish Course Calendar

All courses offered 10am-12noon and 6-8pm, Pacific

• Thursdays 11 January - 29 February COURSE: ÍNTIMAS SUCULENCIAS

  Estudiantes avanzados leerán este libro que es una amalgama de autobiografía, ensayo, libro de cuentos y recetario de cocina por Laura Esquivel, la celebrada autora de "Como agua para chocolate". (Lectura requerida para la primera clase. Favor de contactarnos para mayor información.) Usaremos esta edición: ISBN 8478951113.

• Thursdays 21 March - 9 May COURSE: RADIO AMBULANTE

  Students will listen to and read the transcript for episode of this all-Spanish podcast. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language podcast that tells Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States. It seeks to bring the aesthetic of high-quality longform journalism to radio. In 2014, Radio Ambulante was awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Innovation in Journalism, the most prestigious journalism honor in Latin America. There is an assignment for the first class. Please contact us  for more info.

• Thursdays 23 May - 11 July COURSE: DANZÓN

  A lo largo de 8 semanas, estudiantes avanzados leerán el guión de, ver y analizar esta película de 1991 dirigida por María Novaro. Sinopsis: Julia (Maria Rojo) es una telefonista en la Ciudad de México que solo tiene tres ocupaciones: el trabajo, su hija y el danzón. Cuando su pareja de baile desaparece, Jullia va a buscarlo en Veracruz y la vida de Julia cambia para siempre. (Lectura requerida para la primera clase. Favor de contactarnos para mayor información.)

• Thursdays 25 July - 12 September COURSE: MONTEVIDEANOS

  A lo largo de 8 semanas, estudiantes avanzados leerán selecciones de este libro de cuentos cortos del celebrado autor uruguayo Mario Bennedetti. (Lectura requerida para la primera clase. Favor de contactarnos para mayor información.) Usaremos la versión de los cuentos que aparece en esta página web. (Lectura requerida para la primera clase. Favor de contactarnos para mayor información.)

• Thursdays 3 October - 21 November COURSE: EL HILO

  Estudiantes escucharán y discutirán episodios de este podcast en español que es “una invitación a crear una conversación y un entendimiento más profundo sobre las noticias más importantes de América Latina. Cada semana sus presentadores hablan con periodistas locales y las voces expertas más confiables de la región. El Hilo pregunta, ‘¿Qué pasó y hacia dónde van las noticias?’” Favor de contactarnos para mayor información.

• DECEMBER DROP-IN CONVERSATION HOURS, THURSDAYS 6-7pm

  • Thursday 5 December: La ropa REGISTER HERE

  • Thursday 12 December: La universidad REGISTER HERE

  • Thursday 19 December: Las clases sociales REGISTER HERE

2025 Advanced Spanish Course Calendar

All courses offered 10am-12noon and 6-8pm, Pacific

• Thursdays 9 January - 27 February COURSE: FRESA Y CHOCOLATE (PELÍCULA)


  Over the course of 8 weeks, students will read the screenplay and watch this Cuban/Spanish/Mexican coproduction from 1993. It was the first Cuban film ever to receive an Oscar nomination, in the category of Best Foreign film. There is an assignment for the first class. Please contact us for more info.

• 5-12 March: COSTA RICA IMMERSION EXPERIENCE 2025

• Thursdays 20 March - 8 May COURSE: CUENTOS DE EVA LUNA, CURSO A.

  Students will read selections from this collection of short stories that combine fantasy with biting social satire and psychological insight by the Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. There is an assignment for the first class. Please contact us for more info.

CUENTOS DE EVA LUNA, CURSO A SYLLABUS:

• Semana 1 (20 de marzo): Dos palabras

• Semana 2 (27 de marzo): Niña perversa: escribir un ensayo

• Semana 3 (3 de abril): Clarisa

• Semana 4 (10 de abril): Boca de sapo: escribir un ensayo

• Semana 5 (17 de abril): El oro de Tomás Vargas

• Semana 6 (24 de abril): Si me tocaras el corazón: escribir un ensayo

• Semana 7 (1º de mayo): Regalo para una novia

• Semana 8 (8 de mayo): Tosca: escribir un ensayo

• Thursdays 22 May - 10 July COURSE: RADIO AMBULANTE (PODCAST)


  Students will listen to and read the transcript for episode of this all-Spanish podcast. Radio Ambulante is a Spanish-language podcast that tells Latin American stories from anywhere Spanish is spoken, including the United States. It seeks to bring the aesthetic of high-quality longform journalism to radio. In 2014, Radio Ambulante was awarded the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Innovation in Journalism, the most prestigious journalism honor in Latin America. There is an assignment for the first class. Please contact us for more info.

• Thursdays 31 July - 18 September COURSE: ROJO AMANECER (PELÍCULA)

  
Rojo Amanecer is a 1989 Silver Ariel Award-winning Mexican drama film about the Tlatelolco Massacre in the section of Tlatelolco in Mexico City in the evening of 2 October 1968. It focuses on the day of a middle-class Mexican family living in one of the apartment buildings surrounding the Plaza de Tlatelolco (also known as the Plaza de las Tres Culturas) and is based on testimonials from witnesses and victims. There is an assignment for the first class. Please contact us for more info.

• Thursdays 2 October - 20 November COURSE: CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA (NOVELA)

  
Over the course of 8 weeks, students will read and discuss this novella by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the Vicario twins. WE WILL USE THIS VERSION, WHICH YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.

DECEMBER 2025 DROP-IN CONVERSATION HOURS, THURSDAYS 6-7pm

• Thursday 4 December: La paternidad

• Thursday 11 December: Hacer trampa

• Thursday 18 December: El lenguaje corporal