Nine days in Madrid. Spanish classes every morning — 11:00 to 14:30, real teachers, real classrooms. Then the city becomes the homework: order in Spanish, haggle in Spanish, cheer in Spanish.
Land in Madrid, settle in, and start classes the very next morning — 3.5 hours of Spanish, then a guided walking tour and the Prado with headphones. Art class and language class, same afternoon.
Morning classes, then Torres Bermejas at night — flamenco up close, all percussion and defiance. Students learn that Spain speaks with its hands and heels as much as its words.
The Royal Palace, Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor — four hours with a guide, in the squares where Spain announced empires and revolutions. Vocabulary list: king, square, gate, sun.
A day trip to Toledo — three religions, one walled city — with a zipline ride across the Tagus gorge. History lesson at altitude; the screaming is multilingual.
The Santiago Bernabéu — 85,000 seats of it. Students tour the stadium where Real Madrid writes its own history, and discover sports Spanish: gol, portero, ¡vamos!
Final classes, IKONO Madrid’s immersive rooms, last markets, last churros — and the certificate ceremony. Nine days ago they whispered “hola”. Now they negotiate souvenir prices.
The real test happens at a market stall, a metro window, a restaurant table. Students come home with a certificate, a notebook full of scribbles — and the nerve to speak a language they couldn’t speak nine days earlier.
Issued by the Madrid language school on completion — a real, recognised record of hours studied and level reached.
Nine days of scribbles, mistakes, corrections, phrases overheard and captured — the notebook they will reread.
The quiet confidence of a child who has ordered food, asked directions and made themselves understood in a foreign language.
Five fields and we will come back within two working days with dates, costing and the full safety protocol for this chapter. One teacher travels free with every ten students.