We inform the teachers of the German School Seville about deutsch.info

At this year’s intercultural German-Spanish camp, we brought together a group of young Spanish people who are learning German with a group of young people from a school in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) who are learning Spanish. The groups were accompanied by their respective teachers. The primary school coordinator and the subject leader for bilingual learning came from the German school in Seville.

While the Spanish and German youngsters were engrossed in the farewell activity after three days of living together at the camp, which consisted of them leaving each other messages in self-designed notebooks as souvenirs, we had the opportunity to talk to the staff of the German School in Seville about the Erasmus+ Deutsch.info project and our involvement in it.

They were surprised to learn about the useful tools already available, such as the deutsch.info platform for levels A1 to B2, the teaching materials available on the platform and the app DerDieDas for practising the articles. They also considered the current development project of the app Deutsch-Start for beginners to be interesting, as it may be suitable for parents who want to start learning German themselves.

informamos a profesoras del Colegio Alemán sobre proyecto Erasmus+ Deutsch.info

All in all, it was a successful camp from which both the German and Spanish youngsters will take away many great memories. Thank you to everyone who helped with the organisation and realisation.

We inform the teachers of the German School Seville about deutsch.info

At this year’s intercultural German-Spanish camp, we brought together a group of young Spanish people who are learning German with a group of young people from a school in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) who are learning Spanish. The groups were accompanied by their respective teachers. The primary school coordinator and the subject leader for bilingual learning came from the German school in Seville.

While the Spanish and German youngsters were engrossed in the farewell activity after three days of living together at the camp, which consisted of them leaving each other messages in self-designed notebooks as souvenirs, we had the opportunity to talk to the staff of the German School in Seville about the Erasmus+ Deutsch.info project and our involvement in it.

They were surprised to learn about the useful tools already available, such as the deutsch.info platform for levels A1 to B2, the teaching materials available on the platform and the app DerDieDas for practising the articles. They also considered the current development project of the app Deutsch-Start for beginners to be interesting, as it may be suitable for parents who want to start learning German themselves.

informamos a profesoras del Colegio Alemán sobre proyecto Erasmus+ Deutsch.info

All in all, it was a successful camp from which both the German and Spanish youngsters will take away many great memories. Thank you to everyone who helped with the organisation and realisation.

Marta tells us about her experience during her internship at our language school

This experience began with the need to find an academy where I could do the internship period for the ELE Master that I was doing online. At that time I was in Algodonales (where my parents currently live), started searching by proximity, and found this academy where I had attended German lessons when I was in high school and lived in Prado. Anja (the director) was my first German teacher. When I contacted her to do an internship at her academy, everything went smoothly.

Marta con los alumnos en las calles de Prado del Rey durante sus prácticas

Personally, I wanted to spend this time in my town where I had not lived for years and where luckily I was able to move to the same day that the internship period began. Additionally, one of my best friends (Carmenxu) would be working there during the same period. I guess the fact that the academy is in Prado, knowing Anja, and having a friend nearby makes everything easier. I already had experience teaching English, but it was the first time I taught Spanish to foreigners. And I loved it! Without a doubt, the best thing about this experience has been sharing time with students whose attitude was the best one could wish for.

We had a great time together, and their words and details confirmed it to me. It’s incredible how quickly connections are created with people who come so eager to interact and learn. They have been a 10/10 to me as persons and also as students. I will always remember them. Although it had only been month, and most of the students spent a week here, we spent the mornings learning a lot during lessons (and also the breakfast breaks in which we would not stop chatting) and the afternoons hiking together (what meant returning to places that are super special to me because of the memories they bring me, such as the Torre Pajarete, and discovering new places that I have fallen in love with, such as the amazing Salto del Cabrero). What I liked most was sharing opinions, reflections, thoughts… on the most random topics. I was amazed by some of the questions and the conversations that arose from there… I felt like we knew each other too much for the short time we had spent together, but I guess it’s easy when we know how to listen and are interested in the people around us. In the end, whatever you do, and whatever situation you are in, what matters is the people with whom you establish a connection, and that is precisely why this adventure will remain in my memories.

In short, I loved the experience 🙂

Marta Hennawi

(Español) Carmen empieza a aprender alemán durante el campamento de inmersión con un grupo de alemanes

In October we held a Spanish immersion camp with a group of secondary school students from a Gymnasium in Germany. During the camp we not only taught the Spanish language and culture to the students, but at the same time the students shared their language and culture with our teachers. At the end of the camp, our Spanish teacher Carmen took home her first list of useful German words and phrases. Carmen told us that she wanted to continue studying German in a self-taught way, so we recommended her the free self-learning platform www.deutsch.info. Since then, she has been studying the A1 level course in German on the platform. Her biggest motivation is to be able to talk about everyday topics with the students who will come to our camps in the future.

Profesora de español se lanza a aprender alemán tras el contacto con alemanes en el campamento de inmersión en español

The A1 course on the www.deutsch.info platform is suitable for people with some basic knowledge of German. To facilitate access to the German language for people who have not been in contact with the German language before, we are currently developing an application for mobile devices to learn German from scratch in an intuitive way and based on the most used words and phrases in spoken German. Academia Pradoventura is part of the consortium of Erasmus+ project partners working on the Deutsch_start app, which will be available in autumn 2024.

Both the portal www.deutsch.info and the Deutsch_start app are learning tools that are completely free of charge as they are co-funded by the European Union.

Banditry in the Serranía de Ronda and Sierra de Cádiz “El Tempranillo, the Andalusian Robin Hood”

The Andalusian bandit who stole from the rich to give to the poor

Banditry can be considered as the piracy of the mountains. The Serranía de Ronda and the Sierra de Cádiz were the places of action of José María el Tempranillo, the most famous of these bandits, in the early18th century. In the mountains and forests, bands of men out of the reach of the law and authority, most of them violent and armed, imposed their will through extortion, robbery and other procedures on their victims, the rich travellers who crossed the sierra. In this way, by challenging those who have or claim power, law and control of resources, banditry simultaneously challenged the economic, social and political order. El Tempranillo often stole from the rich and later helped the poor, and for this reason he was also known as the Andalusian Robin Hood.

When you go hiking around Prado del Rey you can explore the footprints of the bandits while you practice Spanish. You can and see the caves that were the bandits’ refuge where they were inaccessible to law enforcement for a long time.

Spanish Grammar: the position of the adjectives part II

Adjectives are words that classify, characterize and describe substantive. In Spanish, the normal position of an adjective is behind the noun. However, there are some irregular adjectives which can be located as well in front of the noun.

In this Spanish class, you can learn when the adjectives can go in front of the noun in Spanish and how this changes the meaning of the sentence.

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Spanish Grammar: the position of the adjectives part I

Adjectives are words that classify, characterize and describe substantive. In Spanish, the normal position of an adjective is behind the noun. However, there are some irregular adjectives which can be located as well in front of the noun.

In this Spanish class, you can learn when the adjectives can go in front of the noun in Spanish and how this changes the meaning of the sentence.

Want to keep learning Spanish? Sign up for our fun online classes! For more information click here.

Spanish Grammar: prepositions “por” and “para”

Many times the students of Spanish as a second language confuse the Spanish prepositions “por” and “para”. The reason for this is that in other languages there is only one proposition which in Spanish means “por” and “para”. In the following video, you will learn when you have to use each one, and you are going to see examples of their uses, in order to learn them quickly.

 

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My language camp experience

My experience

What happens when young people of two nationalities with very different interests spend one whole week together? Lots of fun! Naturally (pun intended) they took part in a variety of activities like making (leather) bracelets, „studying“ animal prints, a scavenger hunt at night, zip-line, climbing, archery and many more. The activities were of course all held in Spanish and all the kids and teenagers took part in it, which made for a diverse group of Spanish natives from all over Andalusia and language exchange students from the Frankfurt region in Germany. This diversity led to a very helpful and fun exchange between Spanish and German students practicing Spanish, German and English (as the first foreign language for most of them) casually in addition to their daily Spanish or German lessons. The self-consciousness and shyness that is usually present at the beginning faded pretty quickly and at the end of the week there was a significant improvement in their language skills.

In their free time they were able to just relax alone or engage in different sports activities, play board games in the game room or relax in the pool (with a lifeguard present of course). To keep up their energy delicious food and snacks were provided five times a day. Finally, on the last evening a fiesta was held, full of music, dancing and heartwarming goodbyes.

The kids definitely had a blast that week – they made great friends, got to know different cultures, improved their language skills and took part in so many different and exciting activities that there was no time to be bored.

But they were not the only ones benefiting that week. I joined the camp, which took place between the 7th and the 14th of July, as a volunteer German teaching assistant and animator since I like working with kids and wanted to improve my Spanish. It was lots of fun talking and playing with the kids and thankfully my language skills also improved. So in conclusion: ¡hasta la próxima!

Spanish Grammar: Verbs of change (“transformarse and convertirse”)

We know that speaking a foreign language can be difficult, especially uttering those verbs which are extremely similar or the ones which have several meanings. For this reason we want to ease your learning and our native teacher Ana is going to explain the differences between “transformarse” and “convertirse” for the more advanced students.
If you want to refine your vocabulary and to perfect your way of speaking Spanish, you are in the right place. With our videos you will learn Spanish and no matter your level, we have explanations for any level, stay on our channel and check it out.

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