About Vamos

More than 9,000 students have learnt Spanish at Vamos, many of whom have stayed with us and advanced to higher levels

We currently have more than 1,000 students studying online at Vamos.

When the situation changes we will return to Holborn, Canary Wharf and Valencia, but we will always continue to run online courses as well.

Vamos has been a Zoom partner since August 2019 and during that time we have refined our teaching techniques to ensure our online courses offer the same high standard of teaching and fun, classroom experience that make this school so popular.

Our teachers have also created inventive ways to bring our community together with extra fun learning activities, some of which are free.

We’re teaching every level of the Common European Framework (CEFR) with a team of around 30 teachers all of whom are experienced native speakers qualified in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

Last year (July 2020) we launched our young learner courses for GCSE and A level. They’re also fun and interactive and they’re aligned to the Edexcel and AQA exam board syllabus.

The reason so many of our students stay with us is a combination of our high standards of teaching and friendly, sociable atmosphere; our wide choice and continuity of courses; online support and learning resources, and our uniquely flexible approach.

Teaching and resources

Modern learning technologies in every classroom

Courses structured around official text books

Extra specially compiled resources for every level

Vamos blog – stay in touch and keep on learning

Cava Baja – see our blog for interactive activities

Lesson summaries emailed to our students

We’re passionate about everything we do. Our lessons always include interactive activities that encourage speaking, such as games and role-play with teams, groups and pairs, all of which goes to make learning effective.

Each of our courses is structured around an official ‘ELE’ book (Español como lengua extranjera – the term used for Spanish as a Foreign Language) together with a specially compiled set of resources we call a ‘libro de actividades’, which give our teachers a unified framework and make our lessons rewarding and so much fun.

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Courses

We have 20 course levels which follow the Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) syllabus from A1 to C2
Each is 20-hours and held at our schools over 1, 5 or 10-weeks. For more information see our levels explained.
They end with a self assessment exercise that addresses the course syllabus
On completion of each CEFR book we give you a lovely certificate. It shows the number of hours you have attended and the level you have achieved.

Support

If you need extra help between lessons we have extra resources

help via our Support page where you can download homework (approx 30 minutes) and review lesson summaries
monthly booster classes
individual tuition

Catch up classes

Don’t worry if you miss a class. Many of our students have busy jobs, so we know how difficult it can be to make it to every lesson. We run many courses, so just log into our website and we’ll do our best to offer you the same class on another evening.

Friday conversation classes and tapas

On the last Friday of the month we have an extra free class (existing students only), which is followed by a tapas party .

Vamos in Valencia

Click here to see our weekend and one-week courses in Valencia.

In-company training

If you or your colleagues need Spanish for your job, we’ll teach you to develop the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills used in the professional world.

Whether your organisation has a business imperative to develop Spanish skills within the workplace, or wishes to support personal development and learning, Vamos can help.

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