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Speaking Spanish – Articles & Musings
New term starts this week
The autumn term is getting under way this week with Beginners’ classes in Sheffield on Monday and Wednesday. Monday is now full, sorry, and there’s just one place left for Wednesdays. Shout now if you want it!
Then next week we have the online intermediate courses starting too, with ¡YA HABLO ESPAÑOL! starting on 21 September and my Intermediate Course on [More…]
New Spanish courses starting September 2021
Let me interrupt your summer for a moment and let’s anticipate the new academic year beginning in just a few weeks time. Along with the period after Christmas, September is the time many of us look for a new challenge, a new hobby, and something to occupy the darkening autumnal evenings. So let me invite you to join one of [More…]
Spanish Beginners’ classes
If you would like to have a 10 minutes chat with me [More…]
¿Qué es el input comprensible?
Para adquirir un idioma debemos estar expuestos a él: leer, escuchar, mirar… pero es fundamental que esto lo hagamos desde un input comprensible. Es decir, adquirimos una lengua cuando comprendemos lo que escuchamos o leemos y eso está contextualizado.
¿Por qué es tan importante el input comprensible? Bueno, cuando somos capaces de entender mensajes en la lengua extranjera nos [More…]
Plastic Buster Pledge
Register now for ¡YA HABLO ESPAÑOL! for autumn 2021
The bad news: the spring course of ¡YA HABLO ESPAÑOL!, my intensive 8 week Spanish course, had filled up weeks in advance. The good news: I’m now taking registrations for the autumn course beginning on 21 September.
Reminder: to register, you need to be free most Tuesdays at 7:30pm UTC+1, then UTC+0 towards the end of the course, for a 75 [More…]
The adventure begins.
Follow us en route from the UK to Gran Canaria, and learn some Spanish along the way…
Comienza el 2021 con un curso intensivo de español online
Estoy encantada de comunicarte el comienzo de mi curso intensivo de español para nivel intermedio. Comenzará el lunes, 25 de enero. Pronto estaremos todos viajando y, mientras esperamos, ¿qué te parece mejorar tu nivel de español y hablarlo con fluidez y naturalidad? Infórmate mejor en ¡YA HABLO ESPAÑOL! y completa esta hoja para matricularte. [More…]
A Spanish walk in the park
Let’s take a walk. Join me on a walk through the botanical gardens , practice your listening skills and chat to to the squirrels. How much can you follow? Remember you don’t need to be able to understand every single word or phrase to be able to communicate. But you do need to practice lots and often [More…]
Spanish Club presentations and discussion
Next Sunday we will be hearing each others’ presentations and discussing them. Here, I introduce the session in Spanish…
