Spanish Courses in Galicia, North-East Spain

LanguageJobSpain / Spanish Plus:
We recognize that communication has a social purpose. Our main objective is to help students to develop real communication skills and abilities. Our Spanish courses combine the Spanish language and culture. We put together language and culture combining Spanish learning with cultural workshops, water sports, exchanges with the locals, day trips and other activities that will give you a real view of the Galician and Spanish cultures.

LanguageJobSpain (LJS) offers the following Spanish courses:

Standard and intensive Spanish courses
Period: all year
All levels (Beginners start every 2 weeks)
Length: 1 week minimum (hay que arreglar duración en español)
Number of students: 3 to 10. If the number of students is less than 3, the number of lessons will be reduced to 2 hours per day.
Standard course: 20 hours (45 minutes’ lessons)
Intensive course: 25 hours (45 minutes’ lessons)
Timetable: the lessons are held in the morning from 9.30am to 2pm with a 30 minutes break.
Registration fee: 35€ (except in one to one courses)
Includes: didactic materials, course certificate, information pack, guided city tour, welcome tapas.

Other activities:
Organized guided activities in A Coruña
A Coruña guided city tour
Conversational exchanges with the locals

Spanish+Surf
Do you want to learn Spanish, but also want to experience more? This is a unique opportunity to mingle with the locals and share a passion.
Our Spanish + Surf course gives you the opportunity to learn Spanish and Surf at the same time. The immersion style program will allow you to learn Spanish in the best way possible!

Lying at 43º 22′ North and 08º 23′ West, A Coruña is an ideal place for water sports like surfing, sailing, diving, fishing or just swimming in the sea and walking round the promenade. Its geography makes it the ideal destination for “surf lovers”.

This is why we have decided to create the Spanish + Surf programme, adding Surf lessons to our Español + Standard and Intensive Spanish courses. We work along with the most passionate and distinguished surfers with more than 20 years of experience. Join us and discover a new world, be on the crest of a wave!

Course description: 
Period: June, July and August and weekends rest of the year.
Includes: didactic materials, course certificate, information pack, guided city tour, welcome tapas, , conversational exchanges with the locals.
Surf, bodyboard and/or skateboarding lessons: includes 10 hours surf instruction per week, wetsuit and board, RC insurance, souvenir photo album, transportation to suitable surfing beaches.
Timetable: Surf lessons are taken in the afternoon or weekends depending on the time of the year.
Price (Surf course + Spanish standard course): 370€/ week.

Spanish language courses and Galician culture for foreigners
This is a Spanish Course for foreigners that put together language and culture, organising cultural workshops and day trips. It includes an insight view of the local festivities in Galicia and La Coruña. This programme will give you a real view of the Galician and Spanish cultures. The aim of this course is to experience a linguistic and cultural immersion.

The remnant of thousands of years of history that we can list since the Palaeolithic period, in addition to the knowledge and popular expertise remain alive in traditions, customs, beliefs, popular festivals, musical and literary manifestations that make up the collective ideology and identity of our people.

The aim of theses courses is to offer a direct and immediate experience of our cultural reality that will result in a significant linguistic and cultural immersion.

CulturELEmente I. Solsticio y fuego.
The night of the summer solstice (on June 23rd), night of San Juan, is perhaps the most important festival of the city of A Coruña due to its popularity.
• Dates: aroun June 23rd 
• Niveles: from  B1+
• Length: 2 weeks
• Number of students: 4 to 10. If the number of students is less than 4, the number of lessons will be reduced.
• Registration fee: 35€
• Lessons and timetable: 36 lessons (45 minutes’ lessons). Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:15p.m with a 15 minutes’ break. June 24th is a local holiday due to celebrations of the summer solstice.
• Includes: didactic materials, course certificate, information pack, A Coruña and Santiago de Compostela guided city tour, welcome tapas, transportation to Santiago de Compostela, didactic excursions. The teaching excursions will be held in the mornings and some afternoons.
• Price: 460€
• Registration fee: 35€

CulturELEmente II. Del camino y los caminantes.
The day of the Apostle Santiago (on July 25th), it is the patron saint’s day celebrations of the autonomous community, as well as the end of a road of pilgrimage through space and time.
The end of the courses will be marked by each celebration respectively, allowing the student to take part and immerse in the celebrations.
· Dates: around July 25th 
· Niveles: from B1+
· Length: Approximately 2 weeks
· Number of students: 4 to 10. If the number of students is less than 4, the number of lessons
will be reduced.
· Registration fee: 35€
· Lessons and timetable: 40 hours (45 minutes’ lessons). Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to
2:15p.m with a 15 minutes’ break. July 25th is a local holiday due to celebrations of the patron
saint’s day.
· Includes: didactic materials, course certificate, information pack, A Coruña and Santiago de
Compostela guided city tour, welcome tapas, transportation to Santiago de Compostela, didactic
excursions . The teaching excursions will be held in the mornings and some afternoons.
· Price: 460€

Spanish + Au pair
This programme is suitable for young people, students who have a special interest in learning Spanish.
The Au pair receives Spanish classes in the morning and looks after the children in the
afternoons/evenings in exchange for room, board and pocket money -depending on the number of hours-
. This programme ensures a total linguistic immersion.
· Dates: any time of year
· All levels (Beginners start every 2 weeks)
· Number of students: 3 to 10
· Lessons: 3 to 8 lessons

Other courses: 

Spanish for families, Spanish survival, Spanish + Cooking, Student Trips, , Spanish + work experience and Taylor-made courses (10 hours per week one-to-one course)