Welcome to Habla

Connecting people across communities and cultures

Spanish Courses

Year-Round Spanish Immersion

NEW! Habla is now offering Spanish Immersion courses nearly EVERY WEEK, ALL YEAR! Visit us at your convenience. Our skilled teachers, Yucatecan food, friendly staff, and host families are waiting for you!

For Educators

Habla Teacher Institute

The Habla Teacher Institute is a professional development experience in Merida, Mexico, for all educators interested in activating their own creativity and finding new ways to make the arts part of the daily life of their classrooms.

Spanish Courses

Spanish for Mérida Residents

If you live in or near Mérida you can study Spanish year-round at Habla. We offer seven levels of Spanish classes each semester to makes sure that all students can find the right fit.

For Kids

The Creative Space Summer School

This July, your children can participate in Habla's bilingual summer school called The Creative Space taught by visiting teachers and artists from around the world.

Spanish Courses

Spanish and Day of the Dead

In this program you will learn Spanish through the lens of cultural traditions, artworks, essays and literature that examine Mexico’s spiritual and playful relationship with death. This program is offered every year. New information for 2013 is up now.

A Reason to Read

New Book About Habla!

Read the new book written by Habla director Kurt Wootton and co-author Eileen Landay about the philosophy behind the teaching at the school. Published by Harvard Education Press.

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Questions?

You can reach us by email at contact@habla.org. We are located here. If you’d like more contact information click here.

How safe is Merida?

With all of the negative news in the media people often ask us how safe is it in Merida. Merida is a very safe city where it feels comfortable to walk on the streets any day or night. We are far from the drug violence in other parts of Mexico. This article in CNN points out that Merida is safer than Wichita, Kansas in the United States. If you have any hesitation regarding safety in Mexico please write us at contact@habla.org and we will put you directly in touch with people who have visited Habla recently and can tell you about their experience.

Hope to see you soon!

Habla connects people across communities, across continents, building a world of understanding in which culture is not a barrier, but rather a possibility.

We believe that the power of imagination can help us reconceive our community spaces. Habla the school and center fosters transcultural environments that embrace multiple languages, literatures, arts, technologies, and the numerous literacies necessary to participate in a rapidly changing world where ideas and voices move across time and space.

- Habla’s Vision.