Testimonials

Dorothy-
Everything is great here! We LOVE our apartment, it is HUGE and right in the middle of everything. We started our first class today and we both really like the school. We absolutely loved Alicante and Estudio Sampere. We had the best time there and both of us feel that our spanish has greatly improved. We were sad to go but Florence is amazing. Thank you so much for all of your help throughout this adventure. You helped us find the best schools and places to live. We really appreciate everything you have done and will reccomend you to anyone we know that is looking to study abroad!
Muchos Gracias!
Megan and Chris

Dear Ms. Rudy:
I had an extremely enjoyable visit with Marissa in Salamanca, Spain. I met her host family, in their residence, and was treated to a wonderful meal by Marissa's host mother. I was also privileged to meet and talk with administrative and educational personnel at the Estudio Sampere in Salamanca.
I departed Salamanca being extremely impresed with every aspect of the operation and the personnel involved. I think that Marissa is having an absolutely wonderful and optimal educational and life experience. This is the best educational value per dollar I have ever made on Marissa's behalf.
I wanted to add, as a final note, that I know that is is impossible to control every single circumstance associated with sending our children abroad and that there is no way to guarantee anything: however, I think that the balance that your staff has achieved in supervising the students, while at the same time allowing them some individual freedom to explore, is ideal. I was particularly impressed with your standard arrangements for getting the students to their host families and assisting them in getting back home at the completion of their stays.
In summary, I thank you so much for assisting in providing this wonderful experience for Marissa. I fell that your work is truly a humanitarian service and you should be very proud.
Please feel free to show my letter to any parents who may have second thoughts regarding your comprehensive educational programs, which I cannot recommend highly enough. I would also be willing to talk with individuals, if they had an additional questions: however, I think that I probably covered the majority of my knowledge of the program and opinions in the preceding.
Sincerely,
Dr. Marxen

Hola Dorothy, Well I have returned from my study abroad experience in Cuenca this summer along with my friend Jenny who studied abroad with me. We had such a great time and the School was excellent. I recommended it to many of my fellow students who saw my pictures from our trip. I just wanted to give a big thanks for everything....
Sallieann

Hola Dorothy, I am writing this e-mail just to say thanks for all of your help with advice about Estudio Sampere. I returned from Madrid a few weeks ago. My experience with Sampere was great and it is something which I will never forget. I was able to experience so many new and different things while at the same time improving my Spanish language skills.
Thanks so much for all of your help.
Daniel

Hi Dorothy, I just wanted to let you know that I had a great time in Madrid and enjoyed attending Estudio Sampere. It gave me a great chance to experience some of the language and culture..... I appreciate all that you did in helping make this program go through. I don't know how to tell you how thankful I am for everything you did for me.
Jennifer

Hola, Dorothy, todo esta bien aqui! What an amazing city! Salamanca is amazing with its beautiful buildings and fun nightlife. I've been having a lot of fun. My family is great too, Fernando and Josefa are really nice... even though they have a hard time talking slowly for me to understand. The swim team has worked out very well. All of the swimmers hav been nice, and the coach seems like a great guy. Oh and the Sampere classes are going well. I was worried at first because I've never actaully tried to speak Spanish so I'm behind in that aspect, but I think I'm ahead of the others in knowing about the other more complicated tenses. I'm getting better each day...so just overall everything is going really well, and thanks for all of your help in getting me here.
Will

Hola Dorothy,
I wanted to thank you for helping me plan my wonderful trip to Salamanca, Spain to study with Estudio Sampere this winter. It was the most enriching experience of my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I just wanted to let you know that despite my prior worries, everything went smoothly and actually better than I expected and everyone at the school as well as my host mom were very friend and helpful.
Thank you again for all your hep and please feel free to give my e-mail address to anyone who would like a recommendation or hear about my experience with Estudio Sampere in Salamanca.
Amanda

Thank you so much Dorothy. It has been a long time dream to return back to Spain and advance my studies at Sampere. I always brag about how wonderful Sampere is. Sampere really helped me tremendously with my professional career. I worked in Mexico City for 1 year and did some work in Venezeula and Colombia. It also brought about a curiosity to learn Portuguese, which of course is very different than Spanish, yet very similar. Maybe you guys would like to put a testimonial about me to help promote the Spanish for Business courses offered. Anyways, thanks again for the e-mail. I can't wait to get back to Spain.
Regards,
Andrew

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