Living Spanish

Learn Spanish through real-life holiday interaction with local people.

From Saturday Sep 11, 2010 to Saturday Sep 18, 2010
Cost: £578.00
Availability: YES

* Have you ever wondered how many native speakers have a formal knowledge of grammar?

* How many expert drivers actually know about engines and mechanical functioning of cars?

* Why an immigrant worker often communicates after only a few months in the country while foreign language students take years?

The fastest way to acquire these skills is through immersion in real-life communicative situations. Real life does not fit into the classroom but through solving tasks like asking for directions, shopping in the market, talking about personal information while interviewing somebody (all in Spanish) we get a taste of the living language, instead of just leaning 'about' it. We will prepare these tasks in the classroom, carry them out in town (mostly in pairs) and finally review them in the group, in an atmosphere of camaraderie and sharing.

You will have fun learning, increase your confidence and want to learn more afterwards.

Course Leader

Eduardo Fernández Lalanne
Eduardo has been our staff Spanish teacher and has run a language school in the local town, Órgiva, since 1997. He previously taught English as a foreign language in the corporate field in Buenos Aires.