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… Read more »
Posts Tagged: cursos de español
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Offers in the supermarket
Do you know how to buy in Spain? Catch the best offers thanks to the easy explanation of our Spanish teacher Ana, who is going to help us understand the offers in Spanish. Save money in your purchases and misunderstandings in this language, and as a gift you can improve your vocabulary. Academia Pradoventura will… Read more »
Expresions related with the weather in Spanish
Our native teacher Odalis becomes a professional meteorologist and she teaches us how to talk and ask about the weather in Spanish, moreover, she is going to teach us some quite witty sayings while we review the months of the year. Do you want to learn this interesting and important vocabulary? Would you like to… Read more »
Spanish Grammar: Direct and indirect object pronouns
In this video about direct and indirect pronouns, you are going to learn how to differentiate the verbs with one direct object from the verbs with two objects, a direct one and another indirect one. It can be so difficult to use adequately the direct and indirect objects in Spanish! Most of the time, the… Read more »
The descendants of the Sephardies (Spanish Jews) can obtain the Spanish citizenship
The Spanish government approved on Friday the bill amending the Civil Code to grant Spanish citizenship to all descendants of Sephardim (Spanish Jews) who apply for it and certify that status while they may retain the citizenship of their country of origin. The Sephardi Jews were the Jews who lived in Spain before their expulsion during… Read more »
Interview with our Spanish teacher Marina Castillo
We go on with the interviews that our associates from an agency that represents our courses abroad during their visit. Today it is Marina Castillo’s turn. You can see the interviews with Irene Cañas and Ángeles Guerrero in the previous blog posts. We hope that Marina’s answers and tipps for learning languages are useful for you, whether you have… Read more »
The pilgrimage festival Romería in Prado del Rey
This weekend we celebrate the Pilgrimage of San Isidro here in Prado del Rey. It is one of the most exciting fiestas of the year where you won’t miss music, dancing, drinks, food, polka dots and flowers… This big feast is celebrated in honor of San Isidro Labrador, the patron of the farmers every year… Read more »
After 10 years the Academia deserves a new website
With loving attention to detail, we have been working on the redesign of this website for several months. We enjoyed this project and are satisfied with the result, thanks to the good cooperation with the web designer Cristian Eslava ceslava.com, a very professional web designer who offers efficient and friendly support. Today we can say… Read more »