Tag: English language
Speaking English is still a pending subject for many of Spain’s politicians
PRIME MINISTERIAL hopeful Alberto Nuñez Feijoo of the conservative Popular Party (PP) made a candid confession on live television this week: with around 50...
Spain’s Socialists release attack ad making fun of opposition leader’s lack of English
FROM Felipe Gonzalez to Mariano Rajoy, nearly all of Spain’s prime ministers since the return of democracy have had one problem: their lack of...
Vast majority of people aged 20 years and under can’t speak English in Spain’s Costa Blanca area
OVER TWO-THIRDS of young people in the Valencian Community have told a survey that they cannot speak or understand any English, with just one...
British teacher says she’s barred from full-time public school jobs since Brexit on Spain’s Mallorca
A BRITISH teacher in Mallorca says she's being discriminated against since Brexit because she's not an EU citizen and is taking the matter to...
Nearly half of Spain’s families pay for children to get private lessons
ALMOST half of families in Spain paid for private lessons for their children between 2019 and 2020 according to a study from the Esade...
English courses organized for Spanish hospitality workers on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ENGLISH FOR HOSPITALITY courses have just started on the Costa Blanca, after a Guardamar del Segura council collaboration with Convega.
The course involves 155 training...
The problems of working in two schools for English-language Auxiliares in Andalucia
OP blogger Luke Andrews interviewed Auxiliares to find out their opinions on having two schools
The Spanish ‘y’ and the evolution of language
The Spanish Royal Academy recently voted to change their word for "y," now calling the penultimate letter ye rather than the former igriega
Afflatus: An outsider’s Andalucia
Part One: An introduction to Arriate by Olive Press writer A.N. Maier, describing his version of the hillside town