12 destinos en 12 meses para practicar español: junio – 12 destinations in 12 months to practise Spanish: June
Después de enviarte a Uruguay en mayo, seguimos con el recorrido, mes a mes, de destinos mundiales donde el español es un recurso clave. ¿Dónde ir a poner a prueba tu español con el verano a la vuelta de la esquina?
En junio, báñate en el trocito de Caribe que baña la costa norte de Colombia. Cartagena, una preciosa ciudad amurallada situada allí, fue fundada en 1533 por Pedro de Heredia y se le dio el mismo nombre que ostentaba el puerto español de Murcia. La ciudad fue amurallada rápidamente para intentar protegerla de los saqueos de piratas ingleses, holandeses y franceses; hoy, la muralla es una insignia de Cartagena. Pasea por el barrio viejo y disfruta de sus casas y calles coloridas. No dejes de preguntar por la dirección de Gabriel García Márquez: el Nobel de literatura de 1982 vivió aquí muchos años, y retrató uno de sus rincones en su conocida obra “El amor en los tiempos del cólera”.
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After sending you off to Uruguay in May, our tour across worldwide destinations where Spanish is a key skill keeps going month after month. Where to go put your Spanish to the test when summer is right behind the corner?
In June, go swim in the Caribbean sea, right off Colombia’s northern coast. Cartagena, a beautiful walled town in the area, was founded by Pedro de Heredia in 1533 and named after a harbour in Murcia, Spain. The city was immediately walled off in an attempt to safeguard it from English, Dutch and French pirates; nowadays, the wall is Cartagena’s trademark. Take a walk through the old district and enjoy its colourful streets and houses. Do not forget to enquire about Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s address; The author who won the Nobel price in Literature in 1982 lived here for many years, and depicted one of its corners in his renowned work Love In The Times Of Cholera.
Nuevo curso de bailes latinos!!!
Latin-American Dance Classes in Spanish
Experience different forms of Latin American dance (salsa, cumbia, bachata,
vallenato, reggaeton, Colombian folklore) and improve your Spanish!
Classes are open to everyone interested in Latin American dance,
irrespective of their level of Spanish or previous dance experience.
New Courses!
7 May – 11 June 2011
Saturdays, 2pm-3.30pm
(There will be no classes on May 21. DELE exams)
What are you going to learn?
1. You will learn how to dance traditional and popular rhythms from Latin America.
2. You will improve basic aspects of posture, balance, rhythm and coordination.
3. You will improve your overall fitness and, at the same time, practice your Spanish.
4. You will acquire a better understanding of the Latin American
culture in a direct and positive way through dance.
Price: £77
For more information and to enrol, please phone 02072350353
or email cenlon@cervantes.es.
Aprende a bailar en Español
Latin-American Dance Classes in Spanish
Experience different forms of Latin American dance (salsa, cumbia, bachata, vallenato, reggaeton, Colombian folklore) and improve your Spanish! Classes are open to everyone interested in Latin American dance, irrespective of their level of Spanish or previous dance experience.
Instituto Cervantes, Saturdays (9 Apr – 18 Jun 2011)
Level 1 (no previous dance experience required): 3.30 – 5.00pm.
Level 2 (some previous dance experience required): 1.45 – 3.15pm.
What are you going to learn?
1. You will learn how to dance traditional and popular rhythms from Latin America.
2. You will improve basic aspects of posture, balance,body alignment, rhythm and coordination.
3. You will improve your overall fitness and health,and, at the same time, practice your Spanish.
4. You will acquire a better understanding of the Latin American culture in a direct and positive way through dance.
Price: £125
10% discount if you have been enrolled in any Instituto Cervantes course in the last two terms.
5% extra discount if you book up to two weeks before the course starts.
There will be no classes on Apr 23 (Easter holiday), Apr 30 (bank holiday weekend) and May 21 (DELE exams).
For more information and to enroll, please phone 02072350353 or email cenlon@cervantes.es.
Fiesta! at the British Library
FIESTA! is a fabulous free day of performances, music and workshops celebrating all things Latin American. This year marks two-hundred years since many South American countries gained their independence and the British Library is marking the anniversary with a special exhibition and events programme under the title ¡Viva La Libertad!
We are also delighted to be presenting FIESTA! in association with Somers Town Festival, an event that brings our closest local community to vibrant life once a year. Please explore the performances, stalls and activities along Chalton Street, just a few steps away.
The secret history of Costaguana
ICLL Podcast series: New Episode (in English)
Book launch
London 1903, and Colombian José Altamirano has just arrived from a place he wishes to forget, shouldering a past he regrets and more guilt than anyone can carry.
He could have stopped the cession of the Panama territory, but chose not to. He then realises that Joseph Conrad is beginning to publish Nostromo, recounting a story he once related to him, and that he is being marginalised and virtually erased from that history.
Juan Gabriel Vázquez was born in bogotá in 1973 and now lives in Barcelona. His essays, reviews and reportages have appeared in various magazines and literary supplements. He was recently nominated as one of the «Bogota 39», South America’s most promising writers of the new generation.
http://londres.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha63189_22_1.htm
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