The EDEAQ at a Glance

The School

  • Peruvian-Swiss management, which ensures appropriate quality as well as reliability of the school's language curriculum, educational standards, and teaching performance as well as the Peruvian ability to respond in a flexible way and to know when and how to improvise.

  • EDEAQ’s tuition staff is qualified and experienced; all of Spanish mother tongue (most of them with a diploma in advanced teaching). All teachers speak one or more foreign languages (German and/or English and/or French) and therefore know what learning a foreign language truly means.

  • Tuition facilities are located one block from the Plaza de Armas (Main Square) in the "Casona Bustamante,” a listed and nicely refurbished colonial building that dates back to the late 18th century, which happens to be the house where perhaps Arequipa’s greatest son was born: José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (1894 - 1989). He was a poet, essay writer and, above all, a rominent international jurist: President of Peru from 1945 to 1948, Member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague from 1961 to 1970, and ICJ’s first Latin American President between 1967 and 1970.

  • First rate references. Please also note that the EDEAQ is mentioned/recommended in a series of travel guides, e.g. Lonely Planet and South American Handbook.

Why Spanish?
Chinese (Mandarin), English, Hindi, and Spanish are the four most spoken languages in the world. Spanish is spoken in more than 30 countries and territories all over the world, in Europe, in Latin America, and even in Africa and Asia. In a number of American states, Spanish is considered the second language. It is also a language of world literature - since 1945, eight Spanish writing authors (among them five Latin-Americans) have been awarded the Nobel Prize: Gabriela Mistral (Chile, 1945), Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spain, 1956), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala, 1967), Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1971), Vicente Aleixandre (Spain, 1977), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1982), Camilo José Cela (Spain, 1989), Octavio Paz (Mexico, 1990).


Course Programmes 

  • One-to-one programmes/private lessons (starting dates to be chosen freely). Minimum duration: one week. – For students who would like to prepare for the Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE), the EDEAQ offers special courses of between 24 and 28 lessons per week.
  • Small Group classes [minimum 2, maximum 5 students] (starting dates previously published). Minimum duration: two weeks. 
  • Affinity Group courses (starting dates to be chosen freely). Minimum duration: one week.

Tuition Levels

  • Standardised courses for beginners (I+II), intermediate (I+II), and advanced (I+II).

  • “Crash courses” and customised tuition programmes for “Affinity Groups” as well as courses based on a personalised teaching program for students with private lessons, including building up specialised vocabularies.

Accommodations Plans 

  • Home Stay (host family): single room with access to WC/shower, including breakfast (for students travelling together double rooms are available).

  • Simple but cosy middle class hotel**(*), including breakfast.

  • Upper middle class hotel***(*), including breakfast.

Sports, Leisure and Travel

  • References to events such as theatre performances, folklore and other concerts, street parties, discos, etc.

  • References to sports options in Arequipa and its neighbourhood: short term memberships at the “Club Internacional,” Arequipa’s best equipped sports club (swimming/use of pools, tennis, gymnasium/aerobics, soccer, track and field, etc.) are available at extremely competitive rates.

  • Advice and assistance for travel and weekend excursions "on your own" in the hinterland of Arequipa, as well as for journeys in Peru and the rest of Latin America.

Particularities of the EDEAQ

  • Small, family-style school with professional management, offering excellent extra-curricular care and services.

  • Demanding and challenging teaching, oriented toward building solid language skills while gaining profound insights into the Latin American/Peruvian way of life.

 

EDEAQ’s prices are straight and clear - nothing in small print (in terms of so and so many additional charges for didactic material or a so-called “enrolment” or "administration fee," etc.). And: a lesson in the EDEAQ lasts not 45 minutes, as in most language schools in Latin America, but 55 minutes. Counted per week, this results in a significant plus in favour of the student. When comparing prices with other schools, it would be important to take this into consideration!



Contact with the EDEAQ
On the inscription page (Registration), you will find a form for online registration. Should you prefer to get in touch with the EDEAQ beforehand, in order to have possible questions answered or to obtain additional information, please contact us by e-mail. We teach Spanish, but the correspondence languages of our school are English and German (you can write in French too), and we will always answer in English or German (in exceptional cases in French as well). – And please do not forget to “greenlist” (clear) our mail-address (contact@edeaq.com) in the event that you control spam by allowing incoming messages only from senders you have approved beforehand.

In the event that your registration is at very short notice, you can contact us by telephone. Leave the phone ring for quite a while, and in the event that at the first attempt, no connection is established or nobody answers, try several times. And do not forget that there might be a considerable time difference with Peru with the place from where you call: European countries for instance are ahead between five and eight hours, depending upon time zone and season of the year.
 

 

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EDEAQ – Escuela de Español Ari Quipay
Casilla 11
Arequipa - Perú
Phone: +51 54 95 934 26 60 or +51 54 22 67 84
e-mail: contact@edeaq.com

Private phone numbers of the Executive Manager of the school,
Mrs. Juana Lourdes Díaz Oviedo de Seelhofer
Monday to Friday: +51 54 95 934 26 60 or +51 54 27 25 17
Saturday/Sunday: +51 54 95 934 26 60 or +51 54 27 25 17 or +51 95 857 08 98
e-mail: lula_seelhofer@hotmail.com