Banana Spanish School

Banana Spanish School is a Spanish language school for foreigners in Quito, Ecuador, located in the Floresta neighbourhood. It was founded by Nancy and Arturo, an Ecuadorian couple who teach Spanish to foreigners, and takes its name from the fruit that Ecuador cultivates and exports most. Classes are offered face to face in Quito and also online.

Lessons cover grammar, vocabulary, reading, speaking and conversation, together with the history, culture and social realities of Ecuador and Latin America, and the school states that it adapts its classes to each student's needs. Students of all ages and backgrounds attend, from lawyers, doctors and pensioners to volunteers and travellers. Study programmes also take place outside Quito, in Puerto López, in the Amazon at Tena or Coca, and in the Galápagos Islands.

Students can stay with a local host family or in the school's own apartment in Floresta. Weekend excursions are organised to places such as the Middle of the World, the cloud forest and the town of Otavalo.