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Don´t take the Spanish people out of learning Spanish

Tuesday, 29 January 2013 / Published in Bilingual Families, Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish

Spanish conversations with Spanish people

I am always amazed at the number of Spanish language schools in Spain that boast about their highly sophisticated language labs full of the latest technology! Surely, (I have always thought) it is far better to learn languages with real people? Surely, the elderly señora with time to talk on the plaza, or a friendly shepherd bringing

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Spanish Language Courses at the Open University: their Perfect Summer Complement

Georgina Howard

Tuesday, 22 January 2013 / Published in Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish

Spanish courses in Spain with a difference

Open University Spanish language students enjoy our Spanish language courses and house-parties in the Pyrenees in Spain, and have done for over a decade; braving the 10 hairpin bends to our Pyrenean farmhouse to join us for a chat! Our total immersion Spanish language courses have always offered an ideal summer complement to years of distance learning where Spanish tuition is based primarily

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What Lozanov has to do with our Spanish house parties (and in defence of the comment ‘Mummy, your job is just like having a party!’)

Georgina Howard

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 / Published in Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish

Spanish lessons, laughter and lunch at our favourite Michelin recommended restaurant

Twenty years ago, when Jan, the Polish sandwich boy, visited my PR office in Canary Wharf neither he nor I had any idea of how our brief exchanges would sow the seeds for the Spanish language courses I run in the Pyrenees today. It all started as he handed me a ham and pickle sandwich

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Spanish Courses in Spain – are they really necessary?

Georgina Howard

Wednesday, 16 February 2011 / Published in Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish

Spanish language courses in Spain – which one do you recommend? Where should we go? Where is the best place to study Spanish in Spain? I hear the question again and again and I am usually quite baffled by the insistence on a formal Spanish course and the intent search for a formal Spanish school

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5 Ways Not to Speak Spanish in Spain

Georgina Howard

Sunday, 09 January 2011 / Published in Learning Spanish in Spain

1. Make a bee line for Spanish resorts full of other British people. Here, you will often find impatient English-speaking shopkeepers and waiters who find nothing amusing in waiting half-an-hour for you to mumble your order in broken Spanish, when a two-minute conversation in English would suffice. 2. Head for the large metropolises full of busy

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Language & Walking – and Science

Georgina Howard

Monday, 07 June 2010 / Published in Exercise and Learning, Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish

Learning Spanish as we walk the Pyrenees

When I started our Spanish Language and Walking holidays 12 years ago the combination seemed to make good common sense! Not only would I, at least, get to do two things I loved, but the walks appeared to add another dimension to language learning all of their own. Walking immediately put people at their ease – they could hang

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