Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
In addition to the intensive summer Spanish courses offered at El Aula Azul (The Blue Classroom) language school, students also have access to a variety of supplemental activities including music and horseback riding classes.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Maria provides some very straightforward information in order to complete the enrollment for her friend, Christopher's intensive Spanish course at El Aula Azul.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Two teachers at El Aula Azul (The Blue Classroom) language school converse about their coworker, Anastasia's extremely unlucky day! You might note that the Spanish spoken in Spain tends to employ the present perfect tense [i.e. "I have eaten"] more frequently than English-speakers or Spanish-speakers from other regions would to describe occurrences that took place in the recent past, most typically on that day.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Professor Maria shows us how to get around and ask for directions in the city.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Professor Maria teaches her students the names of a variety of stores and public buildings as well as discussing what is done at them or what might be purchased.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Learn a bit about the origin of golf balls and some aficionados of the sport in Spain.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Two young golf players from Andalusia tell us a bit about their sport as well as their goals for the future.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
After two students offer their suggestions about what they would do if they were their school's principal, the actual principal gives his insight into how these situations are currently being handled.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club explores how internship programs for at risk youth who had previously left school can remotivate them and inspire future careers.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Rafa Ibañez's computer program, "Libertexto," allows for many text-related tasks to be done on-screen rather than by hand.
Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club asks some high school students from Cordoba about the advantages of studying at the library vs. at home and for their suggestions on how to improve libraries.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Italian thinker and educational psychologist, Francesco Tonucci, holds a meeting in Seville to ask students to provide feedback about what would constitute an ideal school. Tonucci believes strongly that it is the responsibility of the teachers and educational institutions not only to ask but to try to implement students' suggestions.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
As kids spend ever-increasing amounts of time on the internet at the expense of other activities, are they really aware of its risks? A Spanish teacher tries to educate them as well as their parents.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain Andalusia
Using the example of a grandmother and her grandson, Club de las ideas shows us how the classroom learning experience has changed with technology and the times.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Parecer means "to seem," and when used with indirect object pronouns (me, te, etc.), can be used to express an opinion. When El Aula Azul's Ioia asks, "Cristián, ¿qué te parece San Sebastián?" a translation might be, "Cristian, how does San Sebastian seem to you?" Or, more commonly stated, "Cristian, what do you think of San Sebastian"?
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