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Learn Spanish in Pereira, the heart of Colombia’s coffee region: our main licensed campus, CEFR levels A1–C1, small groups and full immersion, minus the tourist crowds.
Everyone asks about Medellín. The students who ask about Pereira are usually the ones who did their homework: a friendly mid-size city in the heart of the coffee region, almost no tourist bubble to hide in, and a cost of daily life that lets you stay longer and study more. This is where our story began — and where our main licensed campus still is.
Our Pereira school sits at Carrera 11B #1A-40, in La Rebeca, steps from downtown. It is the main licensed campus of Mister Fox Spanish School — a government-licensed ETDH institution (Resolution 6784 of 2022) whose Spanish program, levels A1 to C1 aligned with the CEFR, is officially registered by Resolution 005093 of July 23, 2024, issued by the Secretaría de Educación Municipal de Pereira. We are listed in SIET, the Ministry of Education’s public registry. When people ask what “licensed school” means in Colombia, this campus is the answer: the institution the authorities recognize, in the city that issued the licence.
That matters beyond the framed resolution on the wall. It means your levels are certified against a real standard, your certificates carry an institution’s name behind them, and if your plan includes a student visa, your acceptance letter is issued right here — directly by the school, with no agency in the middle.
Here is the honest pitch. In cities with a large expat scene, it is entirely possible to live for a year inside an English-speaking bubble — same cafés, same coworkings, same conversations. Pereira barely has a bubble. It is a working Colombian city of the eje cafetero, where the barista, the taxi driver and your new friends all expect Spanish from you — kindly, patiently, and constantly. For a language student, that is not a drawback. That is the product.
Group classes from $370.000 COP/week, flexible private packages valid for 6 months, and online at the same price. No hidden fees — and 15% off your first package.
Enroll in minutes, pay securely with Wompi and enjoy 15% off your first package. We are waiting for you in Medellín, Pereira or online.
And when class ends, the region begins. From La Rebeca you are minutes from the Plaza de Bolívar and its famous Bolívar Desnudo, a stroll from the El Lago Uribe Uribe park, and a weekend away from coffee farms and the wax palms of the Cocora Valley. Students here don’t collect selfies; they collect conversations with coffee farmers.
The program runs from complete beginner (A1) to advanced (C1), taught by native Spanish speakers in small groups or private classes, with an official certificate for every level you complete. The method is conversation-first: you speak from the first class, your teacher corrects what actually needs correcting, and grammar arrives in service of saying what you mean — not as an end in itself. Classes run Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays from 9:00 to 13:00, so a serious program still fits around a real life.
Prefer to start before you arrive, or keep momentum during a travel week? Our live online classes run with the same teachers and the same method, and they mix freely with in-person weeks.
A typical week here has a rhythm students settle into fast. Mornings or afternoons in class, level-matched and small enough that everyone speaks every day. Between classes, homework at a café where the waiter has quietly become your second teacher. Evenings, whatever the city offers — and in Pereira, the city offers itself in Spanish. By Friday you notice the thing every immersion student eventually notices: the language stopped being a subject and started being the medium your week happens in. That shift is the whole product, and it arrives faster here than almost anywhere we know.
| Program | Hours | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Group classes · 1 week | 10 hours | $370,000 COP |
| Group classes · 1 month | 40 hours | $1,400,000 COP |
| Visa Program | 40 hours per month, from 1 to 15 months | From $1,700,000 COP per month |
Group, private, online and Visa Programs — no fine print.
If your plan is the long one — six months or more with Spanish as the goal — Colombia’s type V student visa is your lane, and Pereira is where our acceptance letters come from. The Visa Program carries the study load the visa expects: 40 hours of classes per month, for 1 to 15 months, with tracked attendance and a certificate per completed level. Reserve your program and your carta de aceptación gets moving, issued directly by the licensed institution — the whole reason it carries weight.
The whole process, step by step, in plain English.
Pereira is our home base, and our Medellín campus in Laureles runs on the same program, the same method and the same levels — so students move between the two without losing their place. Start in the coffee region, finish in Medellín, or the other way around: your levels, your certificates and your teachers’ notes travel with you.
Same school, same method — in Medellín’s most livable neighborhood.
The best way to choose a school is to sit in a class. Book a free trial, meet a real teacher, and see the method in action — or take the free online level test first, so your first class is the right one. Questions about dates, housing or the visa? Write to us on WhatsApp at +57 302 370 5357 and we’ll answer honestly, even when the honest answer is “you don’t need to buy anything yet.”
Our group classes run $370,000 COP for one week (10 hours) or $1,400,000 COP for one month (40 hours), and the Visa Program starts from $1,700,000 COP per month. The code PRIMERA15 takes 15% off your first package, and you pay online with Wompi.
At Carrera 11B #1A-40, in La Rebeca — steps from downtown Pereira and minutes from the Plaza de Bolívar. Classes run Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays from 9:00 to 13:00.
For immersion, it is one of the best in Colombia: a friendly, working city of the coffee region with almost no English-speaking bubble to hide in. Daily life runs in Spanish, which means every errand doubles as practice.
Yes — and this is the campus your acceptance letter comes from. We are a government-licensed ETDH institution, so we issue the carta de aceptación directly, and our Visa Program runs 40 hours of classes per month, for 1 to 15 months.
Most students start on a Monday, and group courses run continuously — the exact start depends on an open group at your level. Take the free level test, then write to us on WhatsApp and we’ll confirm the next start date for your level.
Plenty: the Plaza de Bolívar and the Bolívar Desnudo, the El Lago Uribe Uribe park, the cafés of the coffee region, and weekend trips to coffee farms and the Cocora Valley. The region is the second classroom.
Yes. Both campuses run the same registered program, the same method and the same CEFR levels — your progress, certificates and level placement travel with you between the two cities.
One hour with a real teacher — no cost, no commitment.
A few minutes online, and you’ll know exactly where to start.
1 week · 10 h
$ 370.000$ 314.500
