Spanish Forum Language Institute of Scottsdale, Arizona

SFLI Mission Statement:

• Spanish Forum Language Institute realizes that making learning effective can also make it enjoyable.
• This is a small school created in order to provide language learning in a comfortable and stress-free zone.
• We hold private and small-group classes in the Spanish of Latin America and of Spain.
• We have classes for both younger and older adults paced accordingly.
• We use our own materials especially designed to accomplish our mission.
• We also offer  these materials for sale to the public on this website.
• We also offer occupational Spanish courses for landscape & construction and health care.
• Our courses are professionally designed according to principles of language acquisition with years of suggestions contributed by our students.

SFLI Core Values:

• We realize that adult learners are intellectually mature and are seeking purpose, meaning and integration in their learning experiences.
• We believe that for purposes of accountability, language learning is most effective with a live instructor.
• We understand the need for technology in the teaching of language but see it as only one part of the learning experience.
• We believe that the materials taught should reflect the needs and interests of average individuals.
• We believe that our students teach us, and their suggestions and critiques are vital to delivering a relevant learning experience.
• We believe that instructors who have faced and mastered the same language learning challenges as their students make the best teachers.  They testify to the fact that Spanish can be learned in the classroom.