6 week (or 4-week in summer) language course at the Boston Language Institute. May choose from course in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish or Turkish.

The Boston Language Institute is one of the most diverse language schools in the United States. Since 1981, we have taught over 140 languages, including English as a Second Language, to more than 45,000 students with quality of instruction and client service as our guiding principles. This has enabled us to treat each language as if it were the only one we taught. We offer several programs of instruction organized in different formats designed to meet your linguistic goals, as well as your budgetary and scheduling needs.

A typical instructor at The Boston Language Institute is a native speaker with years of teaching experience in this country and abroad. Because of the quality of our programs we tend to attract highly motivated students whose level of motivation as a class further enhances the results for each student in the class. The Institute's nearly three decades of successful programs rely on highly experienced instructors, carefully selected texts and teaching materials and the use of the communicative approach which forms an actual performance in a language: speaking, reading, writing and listening. Our approach is based on the premise that each aspect of language learning supports the other. If your goal is to merely speak well, reading is the best way to develop a rich vocabulary and writing will support your memory of words and phrases over time. If your goal is to pass a particular language test, speaking as well as reading and writing will more than help achieve that objective. It's this comprehensive, communicate approach that sets us apart from our competitors and has made companies, government agencies and universities choose The Boston Language Institute when their employees have an important need to perform in a new language.

Students at The Boston Language Institute have in common a particular reason - academic, relationship, business, or travel -- which makes it important to actually speak the language they are studying rather than merely passing tests.

Core programs are offered in classes of 4 to 12 students year-round in popular languages. Beginning in 2010, The Boston Language Institute introduced a new, even more client friendly format in its foreign language programs. In an effort to better suit our clients’ schedules and language learning goals, classes are offered in 6-week sessions and 4-week summer sessions. This new format allows students to:

-Continue from one session to the next with no more than a 2-week break.

-Begin any level in any session.

-Progress more rapidly through 4-week summer Fast-Track programs.

-Benefit from a new, more efficient and student friendly class schedule.

Most classes meet evenings or Saturdays; some meet daytimes as well. In most languages instruction is offered from level 1 through level 5, plus a conversational level for advanced speakers.

Location: 648 Beacon Street (Kenmore Square), Boston, MA

http://www.bostonlanguage.com/