Learning a foreign language is a challenge, since it is not just about learning its grammar or lexicon, but also requires knowing its culture, its values or its prototypical forms of communication. For this reason, we offer classes in Spanish as a foreign language adapted to all levels and needs.

The objective is to achieve effective communication in Spanish.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Practice of the four skills: oral expression, written expression, reading comprehension and listening comprehension.
• Communicative and action-oriented activities.
• Preparation for official Spanish exams.
• Cultural and intercultural content.

La entrada E-06 General Spanish for Foreigners se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

Digital communication increasingly occupies our day to day and we must be aware of its particularities. Frequently, its spontaneity and immediacy cause users to disregard general linguistic norms and, at the same time, disregard their own conventions. For this reason, the training of Spanish in professional digital communication is aimed at digital communication experts (for example, content creators, journalists, etc.) or people who want to get the most out of their interventions on the Internet.

The objective is to provide the necessary knowledge to carry out digital communication in Spanish according to the needs of digital media and those of new technologies.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Knowledge of the general linguistic rules and of the particular conditions (technical barriers).
• Mastery of techniques to achieve legibility in the message according to the supports.
• Use of linguistic structures that facilitate the reading of texts.
• Specific uses of symbols, emoticons and icons.
• Particular uses of punctuation in digital writing.
• Writing features of oral communication in digital writing.

La entrada E-05 Spanish in professional digital communication se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

The objective is to produce coherent and well cohesive texts, as well as to know the main aspects of the Spanish norms in terms of its spelling, its lexicon and its morphosyntax.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• textual properties (coherence, cohesion and adequacy);
• spelling (rules of accentuation and spelling of words);
• punctuation (use of the period and the comma);
• lexical and syntactic questions;
• basic aspects of oral expression.

La entrada E-04 Main keys for writing texts se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

It is common, among students, to find deficiencies in the production of written or oral texts. Especially, among the most frequent doubts detected are problems with spelling, organization of speech, as well as punctuation or some lexical or syntactic issues.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Techniques for correcting and writing academic texts.
• Textual properties (coherence, cohesion and adequacy).
• Spelling (main errors and frequent doubts).
• Lexical issues (Latinisms, foreign words, redundancies, etc.) and syntax (grammatical errors).
• Citation system and bibliographical references.
• Linguistic peculiarities of research work.

La entrada E-03 Academic writing skills se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

A native speaker of Spanish, presumably, has to know the orthographic and grammatical conventions of their language, but this may not always be the case. How many times do we ask ourselves if there should be a comma or not in the messages we send daily? Are we always sure if a word has to be uppercase or lowercase? Or how to form the plural of some words or modify quotes?

The objective of this training is for native Spanish speakers to master their written Spanish skills.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Spanish grammar in use.
• Mastery of spelling and punctuation rules.
• Command of spelling issues (use of bold, italics, distribution of paragraphs, headers, footers, indentations, line spacing, etc.).
• Techniques to express ideas accurately and strengthen the content of the information transmitted.
• Linguistic skills to provide reliability to the information offered.
• Transmit the content of a message in a correct and appropriate way to the communicative situation.
• Putting into practice the writing used in digital communication (use of icons, emoticons, symbols, etc.).
• Writing acronyms, abbreviations, foreign words, etc.

La entrada E-02 Written Spanish proficiency for native speakers se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

Aimed at college students or higher degrees who study or are going to study or work with people from other cultures in the future. It is also aimed at professionals who want to develop their intercultural competence and communication.

The objective is to exchange ideas and learn to reflect on culture, perceptions, stereotypes, as well as to identify different cultural patterns that will help study and work in international and intercultural environments.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Importance of cultural diversity in the global world.
• Learning about the concept of ‘culture’. Identification of visible and invisible culture. The role of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
• Understanding how perspectives, perceptions and different worldviews transform our behavior.
• Tools to deconstruct stereotypes and understand the values ​​and beliefs of other cultures.
• Cultural dimensions: the concept of time, relationships or rules.
• High and low context communication. Culturally distinct verbal and non-verbal communication styles.
• Cultural shock and adaptation to new intercultural environments.
• Intercultural skills for the professional future.
• Development of intercultural sensitivity: from polarization and minimization to acceptance.

La entrada C-07 Competence and intercultural communication se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

Adapting and knowing how to work effectively with people from different cultures is increasingly valued by companies, mainly due to the challenge it entails and its negative consequences for the business if it is not achieved. Therefore, when looking for a job it is a great advantage to know how to present this type of skills to future employers.

The objective of this training is to help job seekers develop their intercultural competence and explain what their intercultural skills are to potential employers.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Help identify intercultural competence and how to develop it.
• Understand why it is so important to know how to work across cultures.
• Learn to work in a new culture and know how to explain the professional benefits of a person who has lived and experienced other cultures.
• Identify and work with different cultural patterns and with multicultural teams.
• Learn about different communication styles, cultural adaptation techniques and intercultural conflict management.
• Value and present intercultural skills when looking for a job, both in the curriculum and during the job interview.

La entrada C-06 Intercultural competence as a tool in the job search se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.

This course is aimed at non-native people who need to improve their oral and written level of Spanish. With this training, the participant will learn to master the different formal aspects of the language and to adapt their oral and written discourse to the communicative situation in which they find themselves.

The objective of this training is to help non-native speakers of Spanish to reach the highest level of the language in order to work effectively in Spanish-speaking environments.

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Contents

The following concepts will be addressed:

• Development of linguistic competence (oral and written skills).
• Communication techniques: cohesion of ideas, adaptation of messages, use of precise vocabulary, etc.
• Spelling, vocabulary and grammar.
• Morphosyntactic questions (formation of plurals, use of verb tenses, direct and indirect complements, etc.).
• Punctuation marks (use of the period, the comma, the quotation marks, the semicolon, the bar, the hyphen, etc.).
• Resolution of the most frequent linguistic doubts, as well as mastery of the available resources that exist for their autonomous resolution.
• Techniques and useful tips for making oral and written presentations.
• Main typographical conventions of work documents, for example, those of emails, reports, etc.

La entrada E-01 Mastering Spanish for non-native speakers se publicó primero en Intercultural Training - Small Wide World.