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On Location Spanish – 11 Dec 2012

Buenos días y bienvenidos a todos to the final update from Salamanca of 2012. It’s Iain here, and I’ve been out braving the cold weather to bring you some updates of the preparations that Salamanca has been making for the festive season. Last night, I met up with my classmate Carlos for a tour of

On Location Spanish – 27 Nov 2012

¡Hola a todos! It’s Iain here in Salamanca and I’m back with another On Location Spanish blog post. The Gran Vía is one of Salamanca’s main roads, and it is surrounded on all sides by bars, cafés and student flats, so it’s a common meeting point for the intercambios de lengua (“language exchanges”) that my flatmates

On Location Spanish – 20 Nov 2012

Buenas a todos and welcome to Grace’s On Location Spanish update. Being that I am somewhat of a fair-skinned Scot, I am pleased to report that this week in Valencia we’ve had some wind and, would you believe it, some rain. Perhaps in an ideal world none of us would ever have to change out

On Location Spanish – 30 Oct 2012

Hola a todo el mundo and welcome to this week’s On Location Spanish update from Grace. In addition to exploiting all of the beach time that I can during what has been an uncharacteristically long summer here in Valencia, I’m pleased to report that I have been studying hard and making some headway with my

On Location Spanish – 2nd Oct 2012

Buenas tardes a todos and welcome to this week’s On Location Spanish update. I’m Grace and I’ll be keeping you posted throughout my Erasmus year in the fast-paced city of Valencia, on Spain’s eastern coast. At the end of my first week here, I’m definitely still feeling like a bit of a novata (a “novice”

Introducing One Minute Spanish

One Minute Spanish introduces the Spanish language in small steps: each lesson lasts just a couple of minutes and by following the ten lessons you’ll pick up just enough Spanish to get by in a variety of situations. Topics include greetings, common words, introducing yourself, talking about learning Spanish and language difficulties, numbers, asking people