Acadia Center’s intensive private courses – with new courses beginning every week from May through October - feature everything you need to raise your English to a higher level.

The individual attention we provide allows you to learn the English skills most essential to you in a total immersion setting.

Our private courses are open to adult learners with any level of English: beginning, intermediate, or advanced.

Course highlights:

• Personalized learning program including pre-course evaluation, orientation interview, detailed teachers’ recommendations, and weekly individual assessment meetings
• Private, customized lessons that give you intensive practice in the language topics most essential to you, for example: business communication, listening comprehension, TOEFL or TOEIC preparation, writing, or general English vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
• Experienced, dedicated, friendly teachers
• Total English immersion from morning to night
• Comfortable, bed-and-breakfast-style private room accommodationswith free high-speed wireless Internet access
• Family-style meals with teachers providing constant conversation practice
• Excursions with teachers two afternoons per week – activities include sailing, touring local museums and shops, kayaking, hiking, and visiting local businesses, workshops, and studios
• Access to our study center library and computers, TV/film room, game room (ping pong and table soccer), and bicycles
• Free admission to fitness club including indoor swimming pool and running track, gym, and exercise/weight room
• Companionship with fellow adult students from all over the world who are mature, motivated professionals and who understand the importance of speaking only English all day, in class and out of class, at meals and on excursions
• Involvement in a friendly, safe, small-town community with lots of opportunities to meet local people and make new friends
• Easy access on foot to ocean, harbor, and mountains and to shops, restaurants, cafes and everything else that our classic New England town has to offer

Daily Schedule (Monday/Wednesday/Thursday)
8:30am – 9:00am:  breakfast
9:00am – 9:30am:  guided study in the study center
9:30am – 11:30am:  private English lesson (1 student/ 1 teacher)
11:45am– 12:45pm: lunch with teachers at Acadia Center
1:00pm – 3:00pm:  private English lesson (1 student/ 1 teacher)
3:00pm – 5:00pm:  guided study in the study center
6:30pm: dinner with teacher(s)

Daily Schedule (Tuesday/Friday)
8:30am – 9:00am:  breakfast
9:00am – 9:30am:  guided study in the study center
9:30am – 11:30am:  private English lesson (1 student/ 1 teacher)
11:45am– 12:45pm: lunch with teachers at Acadia Center
1:00pm – 4:00pm:  excursion/conversation practice with teacher
6:30pm: dinner with teacher(s)

Private course package price:
1-week course:  $2100
2-week course:  $4150
3-week course:  $6150
4-week course:  $8100
The package price for any course of 5 weeks or longer is based on a fee of $2000 per week.

Early Registration Discount: Take 5% discount off the package price if you register for an immersion course at Acadia Center in 2012 – and pay the course fee deposit of $300 to reserve your place – by January 31, 2012.

Friends/Couple Discount: Take 5% off the package price if you attend a course with your spouse or a friend or colleague. 

Alumni Discount: Take 5% discount off the package price if you previously attended an immersion course at Acadia Center.

Discounts listed above can be combined.

Private course package includes:

• 16 hours per week of private, customized English lessons
• weekly individual 20-minute meeting with teacher to assess your progress and objectives
• 10 hours per week of guided study in the study center
• all books and materials
• 2 afternoon teacher-led excursions per week (Tuesday & Friday) including all admission/activity fees and transportation
• accommodation in a comfortable private room at Acadia Center (or in a village home near Acadia Center if the rooms at Acadia Center are fully booked)
• lunch and dinner with teacher(s) (Monday through Friday)
• breakfast (self-serve) every day
• free high-speed wireless Internet access
• course certificate
• free admission to indoor swimming pool, gym, indoor track, and fitness center
• transportation between Rockland (Maine) or Portland (Maine) airport and Acadia Center on the first and last days of your course

Hotel option: The package prices listed above include accommodation at Acadia Center (or in a village home near Acadia Center if the rooms at Acadia Center are fully booked). However, if you prefer to stay in a hotel or bed-and-breakfast, we will discount the package price by $100 per week and you pay the hotel directly. There are many hotels and bed-and-breakfasts within easy walking distance of Acadia Center; if you would like our recommendations, please ask.

Weekend meals: All meals are included except lunches and dinners on Saturdays and Sundays. On the weekends students can sample the many restaurants in Camden within a 5-minute walk of Acadia Center.

Additional private lessons can be arranged for a fee of $40 per hour. 

New courses begin every Monday from May through October. Schedule your arrival for Sunday and your departure for Saturday.

During the winter (November-April), sign up for online English lessons or inquire about a customized homestay course.

Register now for a private English course at a time that works best for you, or for our combination (private/mini-group) English course.  Questions? Call us at 617-939-9209 or contact us by e-mail.

English class photos by Nikolay Tarkhanov.