You and your group can be trained by our native speaker qualified Spanish teachers, and can meet at your place of work or home at a time convenient to you. Tutorials can take place any day of the week, including weekends, and can be scheduled for the morning, afternoon or evening. If your home or office is not suitable for you, you can attend the lesson at the teacher's offices. You will be provided with all relevant lesson materials.
These lessons in Spanish are wider-ranging in their nature, and are driven towards students who have a variety of differing needs. All beginner students will expect to study enough survival Spanish to get them through a short visit to the country, those staying on with the lesson can progress differently, depending on their individual requests and requirements. Whether you are buying property in a foreign country, married to a foreign national, planning a round-the-world trip, interested in Spanish history and culture, or if you simply want to attain a particular level of Spanish, this is the choice for you.
These Spanish Lessons are intended for people who really need to learn Spanish to help make that difference in their work. For beginners, it will be useful to learn greetings and basic business etiquette, at higher levels reading and then writing become more important. Typical students include those involved in import/export, international negotiations and acquisitions, jobseekers in multinational companies where an additional language is required, and those working with international colleagues, academia and government. Even on our most basic lesson for Beginners, students should expect to end the lesson with basic Telephone Spanish and e-mail Spanish skills for communications as well as Survival Spanish required for short visits to a country.
2 or more people can benefit studying Spanish together as these Spanish lessons are also offered to groups (Two-to-One Spanish Lesson or Small Group In-Company Spanish Lesson). Every student must have the same degree of knowledge of the language, the same business or language needs and the ability to study at the same time and place as everybody else. The booking has to be made for all students at the same time. Listen & Learn do not advocate group sessions of more than 6-8 people, though Taster Spanish Lessons can be experienced by up to 12 people.
Italian and Spanish are generally mutually intelligible: native speakers of each language have little difficulty in understanding one another
Spanish comes second behind English as the most spoken language in North America
Grammar in Spanish generally follows the same rule as English - Subject, Verb, Object - and adjectives usually follow the nouns they go with
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Valencia es una de las ciudades más importantes de la costa este de España. Bañada por el Mediterráneo, esta ciudad se ha hecho famosa por las fiestas que allàse celebran, las Fallas.
Al principio, para celebrar el comienzo de la primavera, se encendÃÂÂan hogueras para quemar muebles de madera y ropas viejas.
Con el tiempo, la tradición ha evolucionado y ahora se construyen estatuas de cartón piedra muy elaboradas que forman grandes monumentos de carácter artÃÂÂstico. En ellos se percibe el espÃÂÂritu crÃÂÂtico y burlesco sobre diferentes temas de actualidad y gente famosa.
Además, son famosos los fuegos artificiales, los ruidos de las tracas y los petardos, los pasacalles, los concursos, las cabalgatas, los trajes tradicionales, las bandas de música, los bailes, las cenas en la calle y las verbenas hasta la madrugada.
Por estos dÃÂÂas, Valencia se llena con miles de personas, cientos de fallas, desfiles, flores…
También es curiosa la costumbre de reunirse en medio de la calle y cocinar paella para más de 500 personas. La paella es uno de los platos más tradicionales de esta región, hecho a base de arroz con verduras, pescado, marisco o carne.
En la actualidad, las Fallas se celebran entre el 15 y el 20 de marzo, coincidiendo con el dÃÂÂa de San José (19 de marzo), patrón de la ciudad, pero se preparan durante los 365 dÃÂÂas del año.
Uno de los actos más colorido y esperados es la ofrenda de flores a la Virgen de los Desamparados, llegando a construir un precioso tapÃÂÂz alrededor de esta.
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An independent city in Maryland State, the city of Baltimore is home to around 650,000 people and was the second city in the USA (after New York) to reach 100,000 inhabitants. Baltimore is often referred to as a 'city of neighborhoods', thanks to the 300 or so individual districts that historically were inhabited by members of different ethnicities. Baltimore remains a multi-cultural society - the burgeoning Hispanic community adds to the rich mixture of African and Asian neighborhoods, meaning that Baltimore has plenty of scope to be a truly satisfying city for those wishing to pick up a foreign language.