Spain is different!

... Really??

This week started in Salamanca the “Fiesta de la cerveza” and it will ...   more »

En los 22 países que componen Iberoamérica a excepción de Portugal y Brasil el español es la lengua oficial   more »

 

Continuing our Meet our Teachers interviews with don Quijote profes, we linger in Mexico.

 

While in Guanajuato, we talk a while with Rebeca Aguilar Jimenez, who recommends a book for students of Spanish while she warmly recommends her city. In Guanajuato, Rebeca tells us, everything surrounding you favors your learning the Spanish language:

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Mientras estamos en Guanajuato, seguimos conociendo a los profes y hablamos un rato con Rebeca Aguilar Jimenez, quien nos recomienda un libro y su ciudad, dónde según Rebeca "todo el entorno es favorable para aprender el español."

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Only until October 31st, you can benefit from special discounts on Spanish courses with don Quijote. Pay 2006 prices for your 2007 course.

Booking your 2007 course now you will save time and money, don Quijote will reserve your first choice of accommodation... and course... and destination, while you will only pay 2006 prices!

This offer is available for every don Quijote destination and every don Quijote partner school. Best of all, you can apply it to every don Quijote Spanish course.

As an example, you can save around 100 Euros booking now your 4-week Spanish course plus accommodation in Barcelona. 

Read more here or contact don Quijote now.

Esta semana en Conoce a los Profes viajamos a  Guanajuato, México, para hablar un rato con Aracely Judith Hernández Delgado. ¿Qué consejos daría Aracely a los estudiantes de español?

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In this week's interview with a don Quijote teacher, we stop by the don Quijote school in Guanajuato, México, to talk a while with Aracely Judith Hernández Delgado. Aracely's advice to students of Spanish? Take the risk, and approach native speakers.

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A new poll is up!! Right there----to the right, and maybe just up a touch. Yep, there!

If you have an idea for a poll question, please leave us a comment. Or email me - just click on my name, in the header of this entry.

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The results are in! We've closed our first poll.

We asked: What do you think of Spanglish?

Here's what you told us.

Of the 60 visitors who voted:    more »

  Hoy estrenamos una sección nueva de nuestro blog: Conoce a los Profes. ¡Vamos a entrevistar a nuestros profes! Una vez a la semana, os presentaremos a un profesor de una de las escuelas de don Quijote. Publicaremos las entrevistas en español y inglés en la categoría nueva - Meet our Teachers, en las entradas en inglés.

Hoy, desde Granada, os presentamos a Raquel Ramos Josa:    more »

 Today, we're pleased to launch a new feature on Spanish Teaching: Interviews with the don Quijote teachers! Each week we'll introduce you to a profe at one if the don Quijote schools. We'll publish the interviews in Spanish and English, in a category we'll call Conoce a los profes - Meet Our Teachers, in the English posts.

Today, from Granada, say hello to Raquel Ramos Josa. Raquel's been teaching at don Quijote for 10 years, first at don Quijote Barcelona, and for the last 7 years, in Granada. She's got some good book recommendations for students of Spanish...wait, we'll let Raquel speak for herself:    more »

I noticed while working on the don Quijote Weekly Lesson this morning that the last 2006 exam date for the DELE is quickly approaching.

Whether you want to certify your Spanish proficiency for your CV, for your employer, or just for your own sense of accomplishment, the DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera) is the internationally recognized way to do it.    more »

Move your eyes slowly to the right, right....now!

See that? We've added a poll to the Spanish Teaching blog!

We've had a good response to our inaugural poll, about Spanglish. I won't tell you which way the voting's going; you'll have to respond to the poll to see that.    more »

I chuckled at this week's Joke in Spanish, published in the Weekly Lesson. It's a Spanish language "who's on first", if you're familiar with the old Abbott & Costello routine in English:

Estaban dos niños cada uno con una peonza y uno le dice al otro:
–A ver, baila la peonza.
Y el otro le contesta:
-No sabo.
-No se dice "no sabo" se dice "no sepo".
En ese momento una señora estaba escuchando la conversación de los niños y les dice:   more »

Diese Frage haben meine Freunde und ich uns auch gestellt als wir am letzten Wochenende in derHauptstadt Kantabriens zu Besuch waren...   more »

Part of what I do here at don Quijote is watch the news for articles about Spanish learning, Spanish courses and the Spanish language.

Today I ran into this story about an 80 year old woman who just finished  a Spanish course at her local library in Arkansas. I'll have to ask the Director of Studies to confirm this, but I'm pretty sure the oldest don Quijote  Spanish beginner (so far)   more »