Summer Programs in Spain for High School & College Students

Edu-Culture Immersion, Costa del Sol:
Improve your Spanish language skills, and experience Spanish and Andalusian culture first-hand through the unique individual immersion program offered by Edu-Culture Immersion (ECI), a leading language and cultural immersion organization. Available to high school students and college students (ages 15-21), this program gives you the opportunity to live with a Spanish host family on the Costa del Sol for 2-4 weeks during the months of July and August. With no program of planned activities, you will live the life of a typical Spanish teenager in the popular beach resort of Almeria, approximately 200km from Malaga, on the beautiful Mediterranean coast of Southern Spain.

You will enjoy a summer of Spanish culture, Spanish family life, and Spanish language.

ECI is the only Summer Study Abroad organization to offer a total immersion program in this form - living with a host family, and speaking only Spanish. Your spoken Spanish and knowledge of Spanish culture will improve enormously.

ECI also gives you the opportunity to customize your immersion program. If you want to take dance classes, tennis lessons, or keep up with swim practice during your immersion stay, we will do all we can to accommodate your requests.

Our dedicated Host Family Coordinator will regularly check in with you to make sure you are comfortable in your family and getting the most out of your immersion experience.

You must be between the ages of 15 and 21. You must have completed a minimum of 2 years (or equivalent) of high school Spanish by June 2016.

Further Language Study Abroad:
ECI also offers 4-week summer immersion programs in Spain for groups of high school students. ECI additionally provides French immersion programs in France.

Student Testimonials:
"I studied abroad in Spain because I wanted my Spanish to improve and become more fluent and I feel like I have achieved this. It’s a once in a lifetime experience. I met all of my host family’s family and friends and did the same things the family would have done if I wasn’t there."
- Ilana

"After total immersion in Spain, I feel very accustomed to Estepona, Spain, and Spanish. I have a much better understanding of the specific language and customs of Southern Spain. I’m very glad I participated in the total immersion."
- Molly

Spend your summer at the beach and improve your Spanish! Almeria is a great Individual Immersion program location. The city holds a great deal of charm and is steeped in history.

Located at the foot of a mountain range, crowned by a magnificent  Arab fortress, Almeria’s Andalusian legacy can be seen everywhere, including in the surrounding villages and in its gastronomy.

Almeria’s nearby mountainous territory is also much used as a movie location, and is most famous for being the backdrop to the Spaghetti Westerns of the seventies. It is a beautiful place in which to spend time soaking up the sun, along with the culture, and all the while improving your spoken Spanish.