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Spanish Courses in Spain in disguise!

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 11 June 2015 / Published in Exercise and Learning, Learning Spanish in Spain, Teaching Spanish
Spanish lessons and laughter over Joxemi´s paella
Too often Spanish courses in Spain are associated with formal classes at established universities and Spanish language institutions. However, many adult students of Spanish work as well as study, and have limited holiday time to do both. This means that they often seek to combine a Spanish course in Spain with a holiday in the country
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Don´t take the Spanish people out of learning Spanish

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Georgina Howard
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

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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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Change of Language? Change of Personality?

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Georgina Howard
Friday, 14 December 2012 / Published in Bilingual Families, Spanish-English differences
Once again thank you to Francois Grosjean, Ph.d. Emeritus professor of Psycholinguistics at Neuchâtel University, Switzerland, for his latest blog on bilingualism and personality change. Without falling into boggy ground over the definition of personality (something so difficult to define and yet something we are so acutely aware of ) the question ‘do our personalities change when
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Edorta sings Razón de Vivir by Victor Heredia

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 05 July 2012 / Published in Basque music
Some more wonderful memories of Edorta as he sings ‘Razón de vivir’ by Victor Heredia to another Spanish group on the terrace of our home in last autumn. No international house-party here in Ituren would be the same without him. Eskerrik asko Edorta!
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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!’)

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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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