Offerings/ Ofrendas
From $240usd per person*
3 days/2nights A/C Lodging;
All Meals and Drinks Included
Fresh Water Swimming Pool
12hours Language Instruction
2 Guided Pueblo Tours
*50% Group Discount 3rd and 4th person in your room stay 1/2 price
**Last Minute Discount Thursdays (Reserve Wednesday or Thursday for Friday – Sunday Immersion Experience, when available)
Spanish Language Immersion Retreats for Travelers and Expatriates
At Casa de Toj2 we offer individualized multi-day Spanish Immersion for Travelers at our All-inclusive Posada in Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatan, Mexico for your small group of 2-4 language learners. Maestro Don Hector has been living in Yucatan for almost 15 years and has been studying, teaching and learning second languages for over 35 years, speaking English, Spanish, and Maya.
We also offer a specialized version of our Spanish Language Immersion Retreat with a focus on Assimilating to Yucatecan Life for Expatriates, such as greetings and salutations while perfecting the basics of proper pronunciation. And then, we will go out and use this skill in a real world situation for application portion of our process. Other optional topics include: how to use the ATM, request purified water, order food in a restaurant or on the phone, expressing your needs with service people, shopping for necessities, as well as other necessary language topics for everyday use like being appropriately courteous.
Our Spanish Immersion Program is designed specially to your specific needs, and all lessons focus on simulating real-life situations for use in real-time, based upon specific scenarios that you will regularly encounter in Yucatan. In summary, we practice first, then I accompany you as we go out into public to use your newly learned skill in order to practice, dominate, and build confidence for using what will soon be your most invaluable asset.
Lodging/Hospedaje
$50USD/Night up to 4 guests
$1000MXN/Noche hasta 4 personas
Eventos hasta 30 personas:
$65USD/ $1200MXN for 12 hours
$100USD/ $1800MXN for 24 hours
Lodging ~ Hospedaje Workshops ~ Talleres
Casa de Toj2 is a privately owned posada with only two hotel-style rooms that sleep up to 4 guests in each, with a double bed and two individual beds in each. There is also sufficent outdoor living space on the veranda of the guest rooms. There are also three palapas on the property, a swimming pool, as well as a pool table and foosball table in the traditional mayan house. We also boast a living Traditional Mayan Dwelling Museum accompanied by a tour of the Mayan houses, walking or virtual, or both. And if your group rents both rooms you will have the entire property to yourselves and use of the fully-equipped kitchen.
Casa de Toj2 is also available to host your one-day or multi-day academic or instructional event or workshop. In addition to our 40m2 main house for up to 30 attendees, and three additional palapas for designated meeting areas. And, we supply the tables and chairs, bathroom and kitchen facilities, ample parking, and additional amenities upon request.
Casa de Toj2 is located just 45 minutes from Centro Merida and 20 minutes to the beach, offering a safe and tranquil oasis for your private group lodging, event, or workshop.
Casa de Toj2 is available to host your one-day or multi-day academic or instructional event or workshop. In addition to our 40m2 main house for up to 30 attendees, and three additional palapas for designated meeting areas. And, we supply the tables and chairs, bathroom and kitchen facilities, ample parking, and additional amenities upon request.
Casa de Toj2 is located just 25 minutes from Merida and 20 minutes from the beach, and offers a safe and tranquil oasis for your event or workshop. Discounts for Academia.
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Your Visit Supports the Preservation of the few remaining Traditional Mayan Homes in Chicxulub Pueblo, Yucatan, Mexico
Don Hector comes to Chicxulub Pueblo via the West Coast of the U.S., born in the barrios of San Diego County, CA and raised on the farmlands of Central Oregon, and was formally and informally educated everywhere in between. And now with a BA in Anthropology/Archaeology, and an MA in Second Language Learning, combined with a hands-on upbringing of the family farm and 25 years in the classroom, his background strongly supports the objective at Casa de Toj2.
And while Don Hector’s university credentials are essential for developing and delivering a well-designed curriculum, it is his background as a second language learner much like yourself, backpacking throughout Mexico to arrive to the Yucatan, just as you have, which makes our approach to learning specifically-suited to your needs, focusing on and providing you with exactly what you want to begin to use your new skill immediately.
With your participation in any of our courses or with the purchase of any of our publications, you are also contributing to the preservation of the few remaining traditional Mayan homes for the few remaining Mayan speaking elders in Chicxulub Pueblo.
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Experience Yucatan: En busca de los pueblos yucatecos con Don Hector
Recently a close friend of mine, who is a descendant of one of the original cultures of the Americas and native speaker of the Yucatec Mayan language, asked me to help him save his language from evaporating from the pueblo ambiance, as he put it in Spanish. While his plea certainly provided the inspiration necessary for producing such an instructional guide for learning to speak the Yucatec Maya language; living in the Pueblo of Chicxulub over the past seven years has provided the perspective necessary for presenting the lifestyle of a culture that is disappearing as rapidly as its speech community. After several authentic language lessons with “in chichan uitsin” (my little brother), and language guide Don Tristeza, followed-up by hundreds of hours studying and practicing his language in my own time, I now find myself in a position to respond to this seemingly overwhelming, yet undeniable request.
Though the number of speakers of Mayan languages numbers in the millions, and there are supposedly at least 800,000 speakers of the Yucatec Mayan variety, current trends towards greater cultural convergence on the face of a shrinking world map that encroaches on the agrarian pueblos that seem to get closer-and-closer to the city with every son or daughter that exchanges the cultural conventions of the pueblo for the undeniable profits of colonialism and modernization.
As a result of my unique positioning in the pueblo as both a formally-trained Anthropologist and Linguist, and an active participant in “in kaaj”, I am now motivated to advance my mission of not only learning of the Yucatec Mayan language, but also intent on helping to advance the revitalization and fortalizacion of this endangered language when there is something that I can do both formally and informally.
New Denizen Publishing, el editorial en Casa de Toj2, ha producido el libro Experience Yucatan: En busca de los pueblos yucatecos con Don Hector, que dirige lectores por la peninsula yucateca mientras repasando los básicos de español, con un introducción a la lengua maya de la region, incluyendo pistas para viajeros, actividades sobre lenguaje y cultura, y mas que 500 grabaciones vinculadas por dos hablantes nativos de maya.
For information about our other publications, or if you are interested in publishing your own work, we can accommodate your needs, including but not limited to ISBN’s, Editing, Formating, Publishing, Printing, Emotional Support, through the entire process, as well as distraction-free lodging while your write.
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