Author: Academia Pradoventura
Spanish vocabulary of the Holy Week
LA SEMANA SANTA You know the Semana Santa? Do you want to learn more about this Spanish festivity?Categories: Spanish habitsCulture
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Spanish grammar: the future
Como sabemos, existen dos tipos de futuro en español: “ir a + infinitivo” y el futuro simple “comeré”. Normalmente, ambos tiempos verbales tienen el mismo valor de posterioridad en las acciones, pero quizá queráis saber qué preferencias existen a la hora de elegir uno u otro. En este tutorial, Tania y Laura explican las formas... Read more »Special Spanish class on the Day of Andalusia
Today, February 28, we celebrated the Day of Andalusia. As we like to introduce cultural content in the Spanish classes in an enjoyable way, we always prepare a special session for this regional holiday. As good Andalusians, we hung little Andalusian flags in the language school, we put a flower in our hair (we explained to... Read more »Categories: Spanish classCulture
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Practical Spanish class to celebrate the Day of Andalusia
On February 28 our language school dressed in color and laughter for the day of Andalusia. All the team members prepared interesting activities so that the students felt immersed in the Andalusian culture, since, starting from our philosophy, we understand that culture is a fundamental part of learning Spanish as a foreign language. Want to... Read more »Categories: Spanish classSpanish habitsCulture
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Spanish Grammar: Future expressions
In the Spanish language we can refer to a future tense in three different ways that do not involve using the simple future. These expressions of the future are: the verbal periphrasis “ir + a + infinitivo”, “querer + infinitivo”, “pensar + infinitivo” and the present indicative. For students of Spanish, it can be a... Read more »Categories: Spanish grammarGrammar Level A1
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Spanish grammar: “saber” vs. “conocer” (to know)
Some Spanish verbs are difficult to use for students of the Spanish language. Not their grammatical difficulties but for their meaning and context, and in English or other languages they are translated with the same verb. Here we present you two verbs that translate to one single verb in English, the verb to know. Therefore, our teacher Irene... Read more »Categories: Grammar Level B1Spanish Grammar B2
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Season’s greetings
Os deseamos feliz Navidad y que vuestro 2016 sea lleno de salud, felicidad, éxito y amor. Os agradeceros la confianza que habéis depositado en nosotros y los momentos felices que habéis compartido con nosotros durante estos 11 años. Nos alegraría mucho volver a veros en 2016. Este año os felicitamos con esta versión flamenca del... Read more »Categories: About the language school
Pradoventura team organizes an exchange meeting with Spanish people
Last Wednesday, we organized an exchange afternoon, a very interesting experience where the students could speak Spanish with natives. Previously, the students had prepared a list with questions to start the conversation with the people who were participating in the meeting. The event took place at the viewpoint of Prado del Rey, where we enjoyed the... Read more »Categories: Spanish habits
Spanish grammar: The verb “gustar”
– Me gusta aprender español ¿Y a ti? ¿Te gusta? – Sí, a mí también me gusta. The Spanish verb gustar is translated with to like. I like to learn Spanish. And you? Do you like it? – Yes, I also like to learn Spanish. In Spanish some verbs have the subject after the verb,... Read more »Categories: Spanish grammarGrammar Level A1
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