Cursus Spaans

Het leer-profijt van iedere cursus Spaans hangt af van de mogelijkheden die de leerling heeft om buiten de lessituatie Spaans te spreken.

Hieronder treft u een overzicht aan van de leeractiviteiten van deze week en ervaar hoe makkelijk het is om Spaans te spreken!

TABOO VOCABULARY

In words there are cultural elements that distinguish one language from the other to help us to understand both how is the culture and how the person who is using this words.

When you are walking down the streets, when you make friends during a night out, when you listen to a conversation in a tapas bar, even when you see a bit TV, you will be surprised about the load of bad words and expressions, that do not appear in your Spanish book.

We will explain the origin, the meaning and the use of this "taboo vocabulary", afterwards you decide if you want to use it or not..

A SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER

This week Jordi will visit us, an interpreter for deaf persons and one of the responsible of CILSEM, the coordinating committee of interpreters of sign language in Madrid.

We will talk with Jordi, among other things, about the hearing-impaired in Spain, how the sign language works and how a sign language interpreter lives and works in Madrid.

MUSEO DEL PRADO: GOYA

The Prado has more than 15,000 paintings and receives about 6,000 visitors daily, more than 60% are foreigners (although one of them, Andy Warhol, visited it in ten minutes in 1983). It is the most visited building in Madrid and one of the most visited in Europe.

=elemadrid= offers a Spanish class in the halls of the museum. Goya and his work, André Malraux said that his paintings marked the beginning of modern art, will give us the opportunity both to practice Spanish and to know something more about the Spanish culture

LUNCH WITH THE TEACHERS

Every Thursday, the students have the opportunity to eat with the teachers of =elemadrid= and continue practicing Spanish. This week we go to a typical Madrilenian tavern very close to the school. You can check the menu of the day at school!

Madrid, besides having its own traditional dishes, is a city where you can easily find the great variety (do not only reduce it to the Valencian Paella and the Andalucian Gazpacho!) of the Spanish cuisine.

A MOVIE IN SPANISH: EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO

In =elemadrid=, you have the opportunity to discuss and analyse the great films of the Spanish cinemas.

El laberinto del fauno is a film by the famous Mexican director Guillermo del Toro and has been a great success for the audience and critics. El laberinto del fauno, released in 2006, is a Hispanic-Mexican production. Today, it is the biggest box office success of a Hispanic movie in the USA and winner of three Oscars and seven Goya awards.