Spanish language courses.

Artist-At-Work · 30th October 2005, 23:51

Does anyone know of a good tutor or course centre in Los Christianos that teaches Spanish?
I want to learn the language as soon as I get there.

KirstyJay · 31st October 2005, 19:19

Not off hand, but I can ask for you.

Artist-At-Work · 31st October 2005, 19:53

Thanx DJKirsty.

emaw · 1st November 2005, 12:08

Hi,

There is one that I am going to join. I saw the ad in the local paper. I havnt got the details now but I will post them when I have.

Natz · 1st November 2005, 13:57

Have you also tried spanish audio tapes? I found the Michel Thomas tapes really quick and easy to learn from. He has taught many famous actors/actresses for when they have had to play a part in spanish.

Artist-At-Work · 4th November 2005, 02:01

No, I haven't tried the tapes. TBH Princess, I don't think I am gonna have time now, as a moving date is almost imminent now.

gilbey · 6th November 2005, 16:41

Hi everyone, just joined this forum and letting you all know that I have started to teach spanish to english people. I used to do it in England for 1 year but now living back over here. I'm from Venezuela (34) and bilingual. I live in Chayofa (5 min from Los Cristianos) and I do afternoons after 4 o'clock except Tuesdays, if that helps anyone out there. My name is Patricia, ring me on 922-729623 or email. Thanks

Tenergrief · 6th November 2005, 21:52

I attended the Graciela course about 2 years ago. It was a very informative course and well run I thought. I would definately recommend it

They different levels at the time and I took the beginners (even though I had prepped up on a linguaphone course).

I am generally ok with picking up launguages and found it was challenging but not too difficult to follow. It is both spoken and grammar based and the class sizes were restricted to about 8 people.

One thing is guaranteed with this course.......(and its an old adage) you will take out what you put in. That may sound a bit

but its true. The more practice you can put in between classes the better. The course is designed over a certain number of classses therefore if you 'fall behind' you will struggle.

You do get 'homework' as well

and again, if you dont do it you will struggle in the classes. You will get the most out of the course if you can put aside at least one hour each evening.

Buena Suerte

KirstyJay · 7th November 2005, 22:19

Guagua comes from South America (Venazuela, actually). There are a lot of people with South American descent in the Canaries and the dialect reflects that.

One I would like to add to your list, is when you are talking about time past...

For example, in English you'd say 'Two weeks ago' whereas in Spanish you'd say 'Hace dos semanas' which translates (I think!) as 'done two weeks' as the verb Hacer is to do or to make.

I always thought it was 'dos semanas pasada' as in 'two weeks past' until the woman in my shop corrected me!

KirstyJay · 7th November 2005, 23:23

Fred Perry would be a better choice to do a section on Footie. He is the Armada Sur President and has been following CDT and Spanish footie for well over a decade. It would be wrong of me to even try and do it with him around! I have been following CDT for about 3-4 years now. I still have to look up stuff on the net to make sure I get my facts straight, whereas he knows it off the top of his head!

I like the idea of the Spanish section. Anything that helps folks get to grips with the language is good.

How about a list of words you've come across that you wouldn't normally know...

Ive got a few of them :

Nalgas = Buttocks
Claraboya = Skylight

...to name two. Only found those out from the Builders that did some work on my house!

It might be nice to have a basic Spanish lesson posted each week...