Camino Barcelona Blog

Hey folks!

¿Qué tal?
Time flies when you are having fun. Of course this week we will help you to have fun! Come on and enjoy our great activities!

Monday
Welcome drink for students @ 15.00
The spring is here and our garden is full of flowers to add an special interest to our regular Welcome drink, where you can meet old and new students and start planning all the places and things you want to do! So come on and join it! You will enjoy the great typical Spanish tapas we prepare for you, together with great and cold Sangría!

Tuesday
Workshop: Pronunciation @ 14.45
After this week’s succesful pronunciation workshop, we come with it again, so that all of (more…)

Hello folks!

How are you? I hope you’re doing fine…

Here I’m with our school activities for this week, the last one before starting into the new year 2008!!! And we are all looking forward to it!!!

- MONDAY 31ST, 3:00 P.M.
“WELCOME DRINK”

As every single week, we start with a big “Welcome Drink” in our school for all our new students!! But also for our old ones too…
Come and join us for some snacks and drinks! That’s the perfect opportunity to get to know everybody!

- TUESDAY 1ST
THE SCHOOL IS CLOSED

If you want to do something special or if you want us to recommend you things to do, please ask in reception!

- WEDNESDAY 2ND, 3:00 P.M.
“VISIT TO THE PICASSO MUSEUM” (more…)

Hello folks!!!
Here I’m back again with our school activities for this week, the last one before starting with our special activities for Christmas time!!! And we are all looking forward it!! Barcelona during this period of the year is just amazing with all those lights and decorations around the city center and ‘Paseo de Gracia’!!

I hope you would all have a blast!!!

- MONDAY 10TH, 3:00 P.M.
“WELCOME DRINK”

As every single week, we start with a big “Welcome Drink” in our school for all our new students!! But also for our old ones too
Come and join us for some snacks and drinks!That’s the perfect opportunity to get to know everybody! (more…)

Hi everyone,

It’s me, Daniel. We have some great activities planned to get you all into the Christmas spirit!

Remember that we are also open in Christmas and to celebrate it we have a complete programme of Christmas activities between the 17th and the 28th December, including a visit to the Christmas market and a multicultural Christmas lunch in the school where we will all bring something typical from our countries to share!

Look out for more news on what is going on at the school this Christmas…

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Imagine this:- you are walking down the street, minding your own business, when a voice appears from nowhere, proclaiming to the world: ‘The day you were born an angel fell from the sky’!!!  Welcome to Spain, ladies! 

This kind of terribly indiscreet- but really quite poetic - flattery is just unheard of in many countries. For example, I can’t imagine it happening in England. If you are lucky, you might get an admiratory grunt or whistle, but little more!!!

The Spanish, however, really do it with style and it is not just bored builders who take part!  The traditional Spanish ‘Piropo’ (chat-up line) is generally a lot less aggressive than the image we have of chat-up lines today and it is genuinely designed to please - not embarrass - the object of desire.  (more…)

As the SALES have arrived and we are in the mood for bargains, it is the perfect time to learn the basic Spanish vocabulary and phrases that you will need in the shops.

Useful Vocabulary:

Dependiente: Shop Assistant

Cliente:Customer

Precio: Price

Rebajas: Sales

Talla: Size

Descuento: Discount

Probadores: Changing Rooms

Tíquet de compra: Ticket

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