Portland Restaurant Workers Association

Are You Interested in Learning or Improving Your Spanish?

The Portland Restaurant Workers Association (PRWA) is proud supporter of Working People’s Spanish, an occasional series of community focused language program offering donation based, highly interactive Spanish Language/Conversation classes.

Recommended donation is $7 per class.   Reserve your place in class with a One Month Pass, $25 suggested donation, or a 10 Class Pass, suggested donation $45.  No one turned away for lack of funds.  Drop-Ins welcome on first-come first-serve basis.

To receive more information about the classes, email Crystal at ctenty1@gmail.com.

April 2010 Schedule:

Class:	Day & Time:	Location:
News & Current Events – Las Noticias	Mondays, 6:30-8:00pm	Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Portland, OR
In the Kitchen – En La Cocina	Wednesdays, 6:30-8:00pm	Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Portland, OR
Maps of the World – Mapas del Mundo	Thursdays, 6:30-8:00pm	Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th Ave. Portland, OR
Spanish-English Dual Immersion	Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm	Madison High School (Sun Program) 2735 NE 82nd Ave (82nd and Halsey)
Spanish-English Dual Immersion	Fridays, 5:00-6:30pm	Gracepointe Community Church 10750 Southeast 42nd Avenue Milwaukie, OR 97222

Working People’s Spanish Class Structure:

• Classes are based around life themes – food, geography, history, health, transportation, music, money, dating, movies.  Anything where we can explore the language to be used in that part of life.
• Activity-based and group learning challenges all levels and is engaging for all learning styles.
• Listening and speaking focus is active and practices the real skills you need to interact with native speakers better.  Every class is a conversation class.
• Flexibilidad es la Diferencia – Come to the classes you want, and pay what you want. Try out a class for free! Donate directly to your teacher!
• You control your own learning, and we help you reach realistic goals. We’re not going to mommy you – come when you can, come to as many classes as you want – once a week, three times a week
• Two highly fluent teachers in every class (and good English skills too in case you just have to ask) give you more accents, more styles, more interaction – and more practice.
• Classes are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at Laughing Horse Books 12 NE 10th St, 6:30 to 8:00pm
• All classes are drop in – register and donate in advance to reserve a space, and help the teachers know about your commitment so they can plan better.
• No required homework or books to buy. We will provide materials to practice with. If you want more practice outside of class, we can coach you if you are a committed student.

For more information, contact Crystal, Student Coordinator: ctenty1@gmail.com

Donation structure:
La Tourista – $0-$7 drop in per class
Seasonal Worker – $45 for 10 class pass
Emigrad@ – $25 for unlimited monthly attendance
Ciudan@ – Talk to us about volunteering your time as a donation to attend classes!

Spanish-English Dual Immersion: Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm

Description: This is an all-level class with both English and Spanish speakers, facilitated by two bilingual coordinators. Both languages are used throughout the class, generally switching back and forth between English and Spanish. You have to experience it. Think of a dance class, where you switch partners and practice your moves. Why learn from a book, when you could be talking to people!

Teaching Style: Facilitators give tasks to the group for interacting with each other. The class has highly structured activities in order to ensure that both languages are used about equally, that everyone participates and has fun, and that all levels can participate.

Content: The content will be determined during the class by asking the participants, and often determined by the facilitators

Skills Focus: Listening is HIGHLY emphasized. Even at advanced levels, understanding the natural rate of speech is difficult and requires lots of practice. This course gives you access to native speaker’s speech. For more advanced participants, you will be focusing on your technical accuracy in writing, pronunciation, and spoken grammar. This is *not* a conversation class – though you will have lots of opportunities to practice skills which will facilitate your conversation abilities!

Open or Closed classes: Classes are open to all levels, all participants, but drop in is discouraged. Stability is a key factor, so please contact the instructor beforehand at hearusnow@gmail.com

Restrictions\Requirements: This class is free, since we are working with other programs. You will be asked to commit to a four-week block in order to keep the number of participants equal.

Materials: Bring writing materials, the rest will be provided by the instructor

Instructor Bio: Patrik Kilpatrick is a teacher of English for Non-Native Learners. He is coordinating a new project called Bridge of Language (find us on facebook!). He believes that people learn languages best when they have ample access to friendly native speakers. There are lots of Spanish speakers wanting to learn English, and lots of English speakers wanting to learn Spanish – why don’t we bring them together?