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Best Language Classes In Dallas

Fluency in multiple languages is becoming increasingly popular throughout America. Stay with the trend and finally learn that language you've been wanting to. Many melt at the mere utter of Italian or are instantly impressed with knowing one through 10 in Chinese. Benefits abound with bilingual speakers to include making your international vacation a breeze to advancing your career. Whatever your motive, DFW has multiple resources for learning a second language.
Dallas International School
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Dallas International School Language Institute
6039 Churchill Way
Dallas, TX 75230
(972) 991-6379
www.dallasinternationalschool.org

The Dallas International School (DIS) Language Institute teaches both adults and children foreign languages with several study options: private, semi-private immersion or group classes. Corporate language classes offer customized on-site classes in French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, English-as-a-Second Language and Russian. The school's adult group classes meet once a week and are available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese and Spanish. The teachers are all native-speaker-fluency level, so you'll be learning from naturals.

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Language Trainers
(866) 855-4646
www.languagetrainers.com

Language Trainers is an international company that specializes in one-to-one and small group language training for business people or individuals who need language skills for work, travel or family. Language Trainers has an impressive worldwide client list including international corporations and organizations. Its success is largely due to its quality program with custom courses designed for every learner, native-speaker-level educators and flexible hours. Locally-based trainers will come to your home or office. Dallas and Fort Worth offer 44 different languages including Arabic, Cantonese, German, Hindi, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.

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Berlitz Learning Center
15305 N Dallas Parkway, Suite 190
Addison, TX 75001
(888) 324-2114
www.berlitz.us

Berlitz has over 130 years of experience using the Berlitz® Method of language teaching. It offers total-immersion classes, private or semi-private instruction, BerlitzConnect or Berlitz® Virtual Classroom. Some of its most popular languages include Arabic, English, French, German, Mandarin, Russian, Hindi, Korean and Japanese. Located in a convenient suburb of Dallas, Berlitz Learning Center in Addison offers classes in 10 languages including Farsi. The Addison-based office is also available to send native, fluent instructors to corporations for training. The teaching style is conversational immersion using native instructors in traditional, small classrooms usually with three to six students.

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OneWorld Language Solutions
2909 Cole Ave, Suite 120
Dallas, TX 75204
(214) 871-2909
www.oneworldlanguage.com

In business for over 20 years, OneWorld Language Solutions has instructors and course materials that immerse each student. Many of its teachers hold Master and PhD degrees, and all of the instructors are native speakers with extensive experience. The classes are traditional, and most languages are offered including French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Arabic and Cantonese. There are 10-week and 15-week courses, immersion courses lasting up to eight hours a day and group instruction. OneWorld also offers accent reduction to help intermediate students with their intonation patterns and rhythm in American English.

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Spanish House
5740 Prospect Ave #1000
Dallas, TX 75206
(214) 826-4410
www.dallasspanishhouse.com

The Spanish House is a Dallas-based business specializing in Spanish for adults, English as a Second Language, children's Spanish programs and a Spanish-immersion preschool. All of the classes are taught with an immersion approach. The owners, Luis Martinez and Catherine Wallace, are dedicated educators with years of experience in Spanish and English as a Second Language curriculums. Spanish House also offers trips to Martinez's hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico where students study Spanish in the historic downtown at La Casa de la Protección a las Joven de Oaxaca. Spanish House began teaching adults all levels of Spanish five years ago.

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