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Let the Magic of Spain Move You… Come for a Visit and Stay for a Lifetime!

Pimsleur Approach • May 14, 2012 • Spanish, Traditions, Travel tips • Comments (0)

This series of articles tells the story of how our author from Ireland came to love Spain and stay there for ten years! She shares some of the highlights of her festival welcome, her conquest of simple supermarket language, her introduction to local bureaucracy and her experience finding work. The final article gives more details [...]

A Dip Into Spanish Literature

Pimsleur Approach • May 3, 2012 • Foreign Literature, Language Learning, Spanish • Comments (0)

Without Spain the modern day novel might not exist. Not that the Spanish invented writing or books, but one of the first novelists was Spanish. Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish author and between 1605 and 1619 he published two volumes of Don Quixote, one of the world’s most influential novels. The novel’s full title [...]

Using Spanish Slang

Pimsleur Approach • April 17, 2012 • Foreign Language, Language Learning, Spanish, Travel tips • Comments (0)

Spanish, like any language, has its formal words and the words that people use every day on the street. In fact it’s common for a Spanish person to ask if you learned your Spanish in school or ‘de la calle,’ meaning from the street. Depending on the region you go to in Spain, you’ll here different languages, [...]

Top Five Roman Ruins in Spain

Pimsleur Approach • April 3, 2012 • Language Learning, Spanish, Travel tips • Comments (0)

Spain or the region of Hispania, as it was known back then, was under Roman rule from around 240 B.C. up until the 5th century. While remnants of the Roman Empire were destroyed in Britain, France and Germany, in Spain samples of both Roman culture and architecture are preserved. Today Spain’s language, its religion and its laws originate [...]

Easter in Spain: Semana Santa

Pimsleur Approach • April 2, 2012 • Entertainment, Language Learning, Spanish, Traditions • Comments (1)

Spanish people wear their religion on their sleeves. Their Catholicism is reflected in a seemingly infinite number of religious holidays and saints’ days. Theirs is a rich faith, which they express with a carefree exuberance, lavishing gifts at festival times on family and friends and congregating at town centers in celebration of their places and [...]