Spanish Summer Camp 15% Discount With don Quijote
April 21, 2011 by la-andrea · Leave a Comment
SPECIAL OFFER!!
Book a Spanish language summer camp holiday for your child with don Quijote before the 28 April and get 15% off!
This is a great opportunity for your child to learn Spanish as they experience a fun and active summer holiday while making international friends. Read more
Learn Spanish in Spain with don Quijote
We are pleased to announce that we have teamed up with don Quijote, one of the best Spanish language schools in the world.
In association with don Quijote Spanish language schools, we can now offer you great Spanish language courses in some of the best locations, offering world class service. Going to Spain or Latin America will always be the best way to study Spanish and learn about the Spanish or Latin American culture. Read more
LEARN SPANISH IN SPAIN
February 4, 2011 by la-admin · Leave a Comment
language advantage recommends our top intensive Spanish language schools in Spain.
We’ve teamed up with don Quijote, one of the best Spanish language schools in the world. They offer you great Spanish courses in fabulous locations and most importantly good service. Going to Spain will always be one of the best ways to study Spanish and learn about the Spanish culture. If you want to be adventurous, try Spanish and Scuba Diving in Tenerife or Spanish and Flamenco in Madrid! If you’re looking for something a bit more serious, take a Spanish language business course or an internship and meet local Spanish business people. This is an authentic way to learn Spanish in Spain.
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Spanish Language Courses
This is a group course where you can study Spanish for 4 or 6 hours a day, leaving the rest of the day free for you to explore the language and culture of Spain. You can learn Spanish for 1 to 40 weeks. You will acquire strategies for understanding and communicating messages in spoken and written Spanish, including culture and body language.
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You can take additional personal Spanish lessons after your Intensive Spanish course, or alternatively you can tailor-make your whole Spanish language course to be one-on-one, concentrating on specific language skills or on specialist vocabulary areas you need. It’s up to you! And you’ll make fast progress.
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There are a selection of Business Spanish language courses, so you can study Business Spanish for two hours a day during 1-4 weeks. By doing the complete 4 weeks, you will leave the course well prepared for the Basic Spanish Certificate in Business granted by the Madrid Chamber of Commerce. It is recommended to take this course alongside an Intensive Spanish course.
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Spanish and Paid Work Experience
This programme gives you an intensive Spanish language course and real paid work experience in a hotel or country house. You take a minimum of a four week intensive Spanish course at one of the Spanish language schools, then put your new language skills to work in a hotel or country house in mainland Spain, or in the Spanish Canary or Balearic Islands.
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Spanish and Internship Experience
This programme gives you a high-level of Spanish language course and real work experience in a Spanish business. You take a six week intensive Spanish course at one of the Spanish language schools, then a Professional Orientation course and then start your 2 month internship.
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This programme gives you a high-level of Spanish language course and prepares you for either the DELE (Spanish as a Foreign Language) or the Chamber of Commerce Certificate in Business or Tourism examinations in Spanish.
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You take the Spanish intensive course of 4 hours a day and select from the professional programmes which you will take after your Spanish courses during the week to build up your vocabulary and knowledge of your profession.
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Spanish and Activities
You take the Spanish intensive course of 4 hours a day and select from activity programmes which you will take after your Spanish courses during the week! There are many exciting, cultural and adventurous courses to choose from, so give one a go and have an amazing language holiday!
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For the more senior language learner, you can take the Spanish intensive course of 4 hours a day and take part in a programme of leisure activities to explore the culture of Spain and its language. Activities include visits to interesting places in Tenerife as well as dance classes in Salsa or Merengue.
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Summer Camp Spanish for Kids (Kid and Teen Programs)
This is a great opportunity for your child to learn Spanish as they experience a fun and active summer holiday while making international friends. The summer camps include intensive Spanish language courses together with sports and leisure activities. Give your child this language summer holiday with Don Quijote!
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¡¡Tómate un tomate en la Tomatina!!
August 1, 2009 by la-andrea · Leave a Comment
La Tomatina is held this year on 26 August 2009 and is said to be the world’s biggest and most outrageous food fight! Using over-ripe tomatoes, thousands take to the streets and throw tomatoes at anyone and everyone in this tomato festival on the last Wednesday in August each year in a town called Buñol in Valencia, Spain. Read more
Take the Bull by the Horns … Learn to Speak Spanish!
July 10, 2009 by la-andrea · Leave a Comment
The Pamplona Bull Run runs from 6 – 14 July 2009 in Pamplona, Spain. It is known as El Encierro in Spanish and takes place as part of the Fiesta de San FermÃn. The Running of the Bulls was made famous by Ernest Hemingway in his account of the festival in ‘The Sun Also Rises’. Read more
Semana Santa In Spain
April 6, 2009 by la-admin · Leave a Comment
Semana Santa is Holy Week in Spain and is celebrated this year from 5 to 12 April 2009 – from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday. It is a week of religious activity – from joyful fiestas to solemn processions, with highlights on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Saturday depending on which city or village you’re in. Crosses, lanterns and candles Read more
DON QUIJOTE SPANISH COURSE IN SALAMANCA, SPAIN REVIEW
An independent language course review by Lisa Zealey
My stay with don Quijote was much more that just a two-week Spanish course. Under the hot Spanish sun there’s something for everyone….flamenco classes, day trips, Spanish singing lessons and not to mention the latino nightlife!
I will always remember my two weeks with don Quijote in July 2001 as a most amazing and eye-opening summer break. I chose to go to their school in Salamanca and really would recommend it to anyone! I was fortunate enough to win a place through a competition arranged by don Quijote at the annual London Language and Cultural Learning Show in Hammersmith, London. Having entered the competition I had almost forgotten about it as I never expected to win!
I was delighted to hear I had won an all-expenses paid place and was asked to choose my destination. To choose between two weeks in Barcelona, Madrid, Salamanca, Malaga, Seville or Granada … was a difficult one! Although I had barely heard of it before, I chose Salamanca based on the fact that the brochure said it was big enough for plenty of socialising but not a huge city; the fact that it is said to be a place where the most pure Spanish is spoken and also because of the flamenco and singing classes which I knew I would love!
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I had the choice of staying in a host family or a student flat. I chose a student flat because I was more keen on being around other students and I decided by being in a flat I would be with other young people. Both options have their advantages though because with a family you have to speak Spanish all the time – in our flat (as often happens) – the common language was English.
It was actually the first time I had flown by myself and I was really excited about getting on the plane and not knowing what to expect at the other end! I had received instructions of how to get to Salamanca and I felt a sense of adventure. When I arrived in Madrid I got a taxi to the coach station and then, in the days of pesetas and rusty GCSE Spanish, managed to find the coach to Salamanca. All was going to plan so far and after a relaxing (3 hour) coach ride I arrived in Salamanca where the fun would begin!
It’s hard to sum up such an influential two weeks in a short review – I learned far more than just Spanish; I reminded myself how easy it is to just go out there and do something great for myself.
Having been met by don Quijote on my arrival in Salamanca, I was taken to my flat, given all I needed for my classes and wished ‘Buena Suerte’ (good luck)!
As soon as I got to my flat, I met a couple of guys who were already there (one from Germany and one from Taiwan). They were great and took me out to show me the way to school and watch the local jazz band. I hadn’t even had time to unpack and straight away I felt like a good time was ahead! A thing that I loved about it was that almost everyone (in my flat as well as in my class) came from a different country. Such a variety of people was great and everyone got on so well together.
My first day at don Quijote was a long and very event-filled day, starting with a level test at 8.00 in the morning followed by a newcomers’ tour of the city while the staff determined which level groups we would go into. My classes were 3.00 – 7.00pm – ideal for someone like me who is not a morning person and likes to check out the nightlife! It had been a while since I spoke any Spanish and what I knew was only basic. I soon started to remember what I had previously learned at college and by the second week of the course I definitely felt like I was progressing well.
On our first night we had a newcomers’ welcome dinner hosted by don Quijote in their own café next to the school. This was a great idea and it was lovely to get chatting to people. I had been told that July was a good time to go and I could see why. There were so many people there and such lovely weather all the time! I think that going on your own is the best way to do it – not one minute did I feel like I was by myself. It’s really what you make of it. I had not imagined that it would be such a task to find another English person there! I met two guys who were English but out of the seven people in my class we had people from Poland, Germany, USA, Switzerland and Holland. This was such a great experience and made the lessons much more fun and diverse than if it was all English people.
I was 20 when I did this course and was pleased to find that the majority of students were my sort of age. I hadn’t really thought about it, but I found that most of them were on their summer break from university and filling in the time with some study abroad. I was simply taking two weeks off from my job in London. There were some older students there but most were between 20 and 26. The tutors were a mixture of ages. We had two separate teachers – one for each two-hour block. This meant we covered different topics with each teacher and it was like two separate classes. All the tutors were native Spanish and all instructions in the class were given in Spanish which was great for learning the everyday expressions. After all, with students from all over the world, not everyone would understand the explanations in English! There were never more that 7 or 8 in a group which meant that our abilities were more or less the same and we could learn far more than if we were in bigger, mixed ability groups.
don Quijote Salamanca holds Flamenco and singing classes once a week. I met a great girl from Croatia who also loved it! The songs were sung with songbooks around a big table with a Spanish teacher playing the guitar and teaching us. I really enjoyed learning them!
Salamanca is certainly a student town, so I would only recommend it to people who like to party! Almost every night of my stay the students met up in the evening and went out. People generally seemed to behave more like they were on holiday than on a language course!
Activities are arranged every weekend and for the one weekend I was there I went on a coach trip to the mountains – that was such a lot of walking (which I hadn’t prepared myself for!) It was a lovely (but very tiring) day. The views at the top of the mountains were amazing and it was really worth all the walking to reach the top.
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I was very happy to have done this course for many reasons. It gave me a real incentive to do something like this again (which I’ve now done in France and Germany). It gave me the confidence to travel alone and meet new people. I met some great people on this course – several of whom, over a year later, I am still in touch with or have even visited. The Spanish classes made my Spanish very conversational even after two weeks, and this was incredibly exciting! I look back on Salamanca as a place where everyone is having fun – the atmosphere was really relaxed and I would love to go back someday.
I would definitely recommend a course with don Quijote if you want to become more confident in your Spanish and have a great holiday at the same time. Here’s to the next one!
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