The Spanish language and culture programs at Viator Foundation can be described as distinctively different from others because they have been planned and are carried out by people who have gone through rich and significant life experiences in foreign countries. The outline of the programs does not only take into account the academic aspects of any program but it also, and above all, considers the wide spectrum of situations and feelings that the students will have to experience while living abroad, trying to communicate in a language which is entirely foreign to their feelings, to their forms of expression, even to their own rationality.

The primary objective of the programs is to promote the profound encounter that takes place among people and cultures if and when things are done with the desire to understand and accept others and what is foreign to us. This encounter promotes the student’s growth not only from a linguistic point of view but also in his or her personal history and it becomes the most viable and reliable way to achieve total immersion in the new culture.

The participants in the program become the centre and reason of our professional actions and their needs, motivations, characteristics and personal gifts are at the bases of our task as “mediators”.