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 course at the teacher's offices. You will be provided with all relevant course materials.
These courses 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 course 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 courses 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 course for Beginners, students should expect to end the course 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 courses are also offered to groups (Two-to-One Spanish Course or Small Group In-Company Spanish Course). 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 Courses can be experienced by up to 12 people.
What we call 'Spanish', Spanish people would generally call Castilian ('castellano') to differentiate it from other regional Spanish dialects
Spanish was the national language of the Philippines until 1987
Spanish nouns and pronouns don't change much in form, but they are split into 2 genders; and each verb has about 50 different forms
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En ocasiones, el español y el castellano se confunden y son empleados como términos semejantes, pero existen ciertos matices. Normalmente, en el ámbito internacional, el término utilizado para referirse al castellano es el español, tal y como llamamos a la lengua de Holanda, holandés, la de Francia, francés, o la de Rusia, ruso, etc. Sin embargo, en España, aunque la lengua oficial es el castellano, en algunas regiones también se hablan otras lenguas, como son el vasco, el valenciano o el catalán, que también son españoles.
Excepto el vasco, de origen prerromano, se cree que estas lenguas son el resultado de la evolución del latÃÂn, que introdujeron los romanos, aunque también del árabe, como resultado de la invasión musulmana.
Aproximadamente en el siglo XII, la distinta evolución en cada región, llevó al nacimiento de los dialectos romances, que fueron: el catalán, el navarro-aragonés, el castellano, el asturleonés, el gallego y el mozárabe.
Con el paso del tiempo, los romances catalán, gallego y castellano se constituyeron como lenguas. En cambio, los demás quedaron reducidos al habla familiar.
AsÃÂ, se considera que el catalán es una lengua románica que se formó en contacto con las regiones del sur de Francia. Hoy se habla en varias regiones pero en cada una de ellas con sus correspondientes variedades: en Cataluña, Baleares y Andorra.
En Cataluña y en Baleares el catalán es una lengua cooficial con el castellano, pero en Andorra, es la lengua oficial.
Otra lengua derivada del catalán es el valenciano, y también cuenta con sus propias peculiaridades.
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