NTPRS Language Institute 2020 in Collaboration with the Agen Conference
July 20-24 , 2020 . REGISTRATION OPEN NOW $90.
$50.00 with TPRS Books registration July 20-23. (Coupon code TPRS50)
One week of live Zoom language classes for $90 ($59 for children’s classes).
Schedule Week 1: July 20th – 24th, Live Language Classes on Zoom
Participate in a class or observe Master CI teachers at work.
7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST (California)
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST (NY)
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CET (France)
Week 1: Live Zoom languages classes
*Remember these classes are free with Agen workshop registration. You will receive more information after you register. Use the links below to register just for the one-week live Zoom language classes.
• Multi-level French with Sabrina Sebban Janczak & Daniel Kline Dubois and Carla Tarini Register NOW
• Advanced Spanish with Adriana Ramirez Register NOW
• Beginning Mandarin with Annick Chen Register NOW
• Beginning Arabic with Fadi Abughoush Register NOW
• Beginner English in Agen with Tamara Galvan Register NOW
• Intermediate English in Agen with Sule Yilmaz (Using the book Holes) Register NOW
Elementary Spanish with Jason Fritze 7:30-8:20am Pacific
Elementary Spanish for Heritage / Dual Language 8:40am-9:30am Pacific
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$150.00 through February 1 – March 31st $165.00
You will have the experience of learning a language as your students do. If you do not speak Spanish and want to learn, or if you want your spouse or teenagers children to learn Spanish, or if you are a Spanish teacher who wants to improve your own Spanish, take the Fluency Fast classes.
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Teachers: learn a language the way your students do. Learn TPRS from the inside out. You’ll never see language acquisition the same way again.
Community members: Did you take a language in high school, but can’t remember it? Do you think you’re maybe not good at learning languages?
Give us a week….we’ll change your story.
Our teachers are passionate and experienced
Intermediate Spanish with Karen Rowan and Dahiana Castro
We use high frequency, common, necessary vocabulary to tell memorable stories we co-create with our class. This class is open to anyone 15 years of age and older who has some background in Spanish (took Spanish in high school) or is a teacher of a similar language (French, Latin, Italian). This brain-friendly class uses TPR Storytelling and short movie clips to make vocabulary sticky. This particular class focuses on Parent / Teacher vocabulary and Rapid Acquisition for French Teachers who will be teaching Spanish in the Fall.
Video of Karen Rowan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukiK5ikoyjQ
Advanced Spanish
Spanish teachers who want to improve their own proficiency, who feel that they can teach up through level 2 or 3, but that their language ability breaks down around subjunctive and other advanced grammar points. This is TPRS for upper levels, and a model for how to teach advanced classes. TPRS / CI classes for Spanish teachers who want to improve their own language skills, but don’t want to take more grammar classes. Content-based, Sheltered Subject Matter Classes using TPRS and Comprehensible Input at an Advanced level.
Adriana Ramirez works in Canada, in the province of British Columbia as a Spanish teacher. She has been a language teacher for more than 15, and is a well-known CI author and presenter. Adriana has published several books with stories, as well as short novels (in Spanish and French), to teach through storytelling and comprehensible input. She constantly presents workshops, trains and coaches teachers on applying CI techniques in the classroom, and welcomes guests to her classroom so they can see the power of TPRS first hand.
Adriana has a YouTube Channel where you can see her in action teaching Spanish with TPRS and CI methodologies:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnrjR8QVCUD56gLPmycrug
Website: adrianaramirez.ca
Twitter: @veganadri
Comments from previous students:
Leslie Teresa
Linwood, New Jersey
July 25, 2016I had the pleasure of attending a 3 day Fluency Fast workshop with Jason Fritze for Advanced Spanish. It was exactly what I needed to refresh my brain with advance language. I learned more in 3 days than 3 years of classes. If you have the opportunity to take a Fluency Fast course to learn another language you should seize the chance.
Jason Fritze is one of the finest SLA teachers in the world, and he just may be the best advanced Spanish teacher on the planet. I have traveled to Spain, Ecuador and Guatemala in order to participate in Spanish language immersion programs.
I learned more in 3 days of classes with Fluency Fast than I ever learned traveling to these countries. (Did I mention how reasonable the cost of the class is?)
Bottom line: if you want to travel, travel to experience the culture. If you want to improve your Spanish, spend a weekend with Jason Fritze and Fluency Fast.
Fluency fast is the best way to learn a language. I started attending Spanish classes because I was working in a school with many Spanish speaking students. I was able to use what I learned in class with my students and their families right away. It was amazing to be able to put in practice the things I was learning, and my students and families were amazed at how my communication in Spanish just sky-rocketed so quickly. The classes were fun and engaging! I would recommend classes for any language level.
Bree Perry Roon
Denver, Colorado
August 12, 2015I would highly recommend both the online and the in-person Fluency Fast courses. All of the instructors are highly engaging, entertaining and employ the most research-based teaching strategies to ensure a fun experience that results in real, long term language acquisition. I was able to quickly move from a low intermediate to an advanced level of Spanish, allowing me to pass the SLP (Spanish Language Proficiency) Exam on my first attempt. Now I am able to use the Spanish skills as well as the Fluency Fast teaching strategies in my role as a teacher and teacher coach. These courses are great for learners at all levels!
Louise Sherrill
Denver, Colorado
July, 2015I have taken lots of Fluency Fast classes and others. By far Fluency Fast is the most fun and the most beneficial. The approach is terrific and I can’t recommend it enough. In other classes it was boring with verb conjugations and workbooks with nonsensical exercises. Fluency Fast is fun funny and effective. Sign up! You won’t regret it.
Anne Andert
Chicago
IllinoisJuly, 2014
I attended the class last summer and couldn’t believe how quickly we were all talking in Spanish. The instructor used muscle memory and abundant laughter to engage us and repeated words an incredible number of times with such subtlety we didn’t even realize we were learning new words. I came as a beginner, but did find it helpful to have worked my way through the first book that we used in class. Five stars for Karen Rowan! Outstanding teacher!
Sule Yilmaz
Istanbul, Turkey
July, 2014Fluency Fast teachers changed my attitude to teaching a language forever. Thank you all guys…
Sharon
Olympia, Washington
March, 2017This class is an excellent example of how to engage students in their learning using personal experiences, movement, timing and humor, more specifically, it demonstrates how to reach students with language concerns whether it is a student with limited language proficiency, special needs or children from poverty who lack vocabulary. I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop.