Intensive Spanish Courses in Granada, South of Spain

Carmen de las Cuevas:
We offer Spanish, Flamenco, Guitar and Cultural courses in the heart of Granada, Andalucia, Spain. We are a school with more than 25 years of experience, offering a wide range of courses of different levels in our school beautifully located in Albaicin/Sacromonte with terraces overviewing Alhambra. Carmen de las Cuevas is accredited by the Instituto Cervantes. Carmen de las Cuevas is accredited by the Instituto Cervantes.

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Come on down to the South, the south of Spain; come to Granada! Live the rhythm of our neighborhood, the Albayzín. Lose yourself in the white labyrinth of its narrow cobbled streets and listen to the soft echoes from its Moorish past. Come to our school where you can see the Alhambra and hear the Flamenco guitar accompany the tap of dancers marking time in the background. Come join our years of experience, our enthusiasm, our ambiance!

Small groups (max 8), Literature, flamenco, guitar, DELE preparation, Business Spanish, Methodology for teachers. Discounts when combining one-to-one tuition with the intensive language courses or intensive language and flamenco courses.

At Carmen de las Cuevas in Granada, apart from stressing grammatical structures and use of language, we understand that the language must be a vehicle of communication, civilization and a way of getting closer to the reality of Spain.

- We offer Spanish-, flamenco-, guitar- and cultural courses in the heart of Granada, Andalucia, Spain.
- We are a school with more than 25 years of experiences, offering a wide range of courses of different levels in our school beautifully located in Albaicin/Sacromonte with terraces overviewing Alhambra.
- We offer six language-learning levels that correspond to the six Levels of the Common European Framework

At each level, students have a textbook as the base of instruction which is then supplemented with other teaching materials such as specialized texts, music, games, DVD’s, film clips, newspaper or magazine articles, literary works, comics, and other didactic materials that promote learning. Our teaching method centers around the communicative approach to language acquisition but it also incorporates many other strategies and methodologies that facilitate learning.

Instruction and all classroom interactions take place entirely in Spanish at every level and in all classes with a maximum number of 8 students per Spanish class and a maximum of 5 students per classes of a specialized nature. In our program, students actively participate in a context of total immersion all the while experimenting gradually with the target language as their new vehicle of communication.

Recognition:
Carmen de las Cuevas is accredited by the Instituto Cervantes.

Our accommodation is located in the Albayzín (the old quarter of Granada) and is very close to the school and to the city centre. Family accommodation, however, can sometimes be in other parts of Granada and a bit further away from the school. The city centre is about a 20 minute walk from the school but there are also good bus connections available.

The following options are available:
- Residence
- Apartment
- Charming Hotel
- In a spanish family, half board
- In a spanish family, full board

Granada, in the south of Spain, has captivated poets, musicians, and travellers from all over the world with its unique mixture of Arabic and Christian architecture, its light and its contrasts. History has left many interesting marks on the city today. Now 290,000 people, 50,000 of whom are university students, inhabit Granada and add to the special atmosphere which surrounds its cultural life.

We enjoy a terrific location, only 60 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea yet at the very foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where the ski season runs from November to the end of April. The climate has dramatic contrasts and very little rain, almost never from June to September. So people here enjoy a very active social lifestyle in the bars and in the streets.

In short, Granada offers a lot to choose from: culture, history, art, warm climate, performances, cinema, night life, sports, sea, beaches, snow, nature, street life, tapas (free food with all drinks), sun, noise, trips, parties, rain, relaxation, festivals of classical music, of dance, theatre, rock, jazz, tango, and flamenco, craftsmanship, leisure activities, handmade flamenco guitars, wine, restaurants, whatever you want . . . and more!