Second Life is international by nature. So long as you’ve got an internet connection and a computer that can run the software, you can log on from anywhere in the globe. It only makes sense that there should be language learning classrooms.
On the other hand, you can find just about anything on Second Life and it doesn’t have to make sense. Remind me to tell you about the airport-themed sex arcade sometime. But it’s nice when things do make sense, right?
Anyway. Introducing El Instituto Español. In their own words:
Instituto Español is the Second Life leader in Spanish language education. Our staff brings 27 years of real world teaching experience to the classroom. Spanish classes are inexpensive and offered throughout the week and weekends.
It’s an impressive facility. It’s huge, to begin with. You can wander around for hours, looking at things. I wandered around for the 9 minutes required by Earn2Life’s Pay4Visit program and couldn’t have seen everything if I tried. This was mainly because for the purposes of the offer, most of the Institute was out of parcel. But it was also because there was so much to see.
When you teleport in, you’ll find yourself in a big courtyard containing vendor shops, art pieces, cultural displays, announcements of art exhibitions, and, currently, a huge Christmas tree. También hay un anuncio y LM para Second Life English con Kip YellowJacket. Wander around the square; there’s a lot to explore.
Leaving the courtyard, you may run into a staff member or two who will greet you and answer any questions you might have. (Here’s a hint: “Where’s my money?” is a bad question, and tends not to endear you to these fine people. I actually had the distinct displeasure of watching a total zonzo (sustantivo: estúpido, tonto, idiota) abusing the Institute staff about the E2L P4V offer having expired. After he left, the staff taught me this fine word the knowledge of which I am showing off now.)
Go past the staff and you will find several informative displays about how lessons work and what lessons are on offer. Also basic etiquette, like, don’t walk in on a class in session. (And do please note the “Lindens for Language” charity board. Donate a little. You can spare it. You just got L$5 from that PPPR poster in Li’s Pet Store. Don’t be a Scrooge.) Keeping wandering around and you’ll find the classrooms and class schedules. The classrooms are equipped with “Fotoputers,” display monitors that look impressively high-tech and useful. The big classroom also features a wall-length alphabet display, which is seriously the most personally useful thing I have stumbled across in months. Do you know how hard it is to Google the names of the letters in the Spanish alphabet? A, be, ce, che, de, e, efe, ge, jota…
Anyway. This here is one excellently useful resource, with excellent people putting in many hours and prims to maintain its excellence. Go ye hence and proceed to appreciate it.
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