Intensive Spanish Courses in Granada, South of Spain

IMSOL, Granada:
IMSOL-Granada was established in 1993 in the beautiful city of the Alhambra, which is considered one of the Wonders of the World. The school is in the very city centre, in the unique quarter of El Realejo, less than 5 minutes walking from Puerta Real, the Cathedral, Gran Via de Colón, theatres, hotels, restaurants, shops etc. To sum up, you will be able to learn Spanish in the calm atmosphere prevailing in this Realejo area and at a stone's throw from the heart of the city, surrounded by all the facilities and comforts.

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Other services offered to the students free of charges are:
* Language test
* "Welcome" folder
* IMSOL Attendance Certificate
* Tutorials every week
* Library with loan service
* Video library, with VHS and DVD, with loan service
* Computers with free Internet access
* WiFi access
* IMSOL student's card with economic advantages in different shops in Granada.

The teaching is carried out only in Spanish and without using any other language, developing a direct, situational and communicative method and looking for mental associations between the concept and the word in Spanish. Vocabulary and grammar are studied in a contextual way, placing particular emphasis on the students' participation both in the oral and in the written production. Teachers use exercises on the different grammatical structures, dictations, readings paying special attention on the phonetics and pronunciation, etc. creating controlled and free conversation, always with the teacher's corrections.

Intensive Spanish Courses; Superintensive Spanish Courses; Combined Spanish Classes; One-to-One Spanish Lessons; Preparatory Courses for Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (D.E.L.E.); Spanish Courses for Seniors; Grammar Spanish Courses; Spanish Conversation and Vocabulary Courses; Commercial Spanish Courses.

For carrying out this methodology, IMSOL has a very professional and dynamic teaching staff. Teachers have superior university degrees, the teaching training certificate (CAP) and, in addition to these, a specific methodological preparation given by the school for the teaching of Spanish as a foreign Language.

All IMSOL language teachers are native. Their work is done under the Head of Studies' supervision, who will support, coordinate and advise them in all related with the classes, if necessary.

The geographic location of Granada is privileged, because it is only 30 minutes far from the natural park of Sierra Nevada and its winter ski resort, and only 1 hour far from the Costa Tropical. IMSOL-Granada offers the student a wide range of activities to realized during your Spanish Course. A daily programme that not only helps you to learn the language, but that also creates different contexts in which you can practise it, making easier the immersion in the reality surronding him.

IMSOL-Granada organizes 5 activities per week, one per day, they could be:

- On Mondays, we invite you to a city guided tour. Walk through the most interesting areas with a guide's explanation. We will visit the most emblematic districts, the old areas, discovering courios details about the history and the legends of the origins of the towns. Albaicín, Realejo and Sacromonte quarters, historical city centre, legends’ tour, churches’ tour, etc.;
- In order to improve the 4 language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing), every week we organize workshops in writing, phonetics, music,etc.; or debates on current events; activities that will also put students in contact with the nowadays reality of Spain: Workshops and Monographs about Spanish and Latin-American history, culture, literature.
- As a complement to the lessons, every week we offer 2 different levels of tutorials about real situations ("En el Aeropuerto", "En los grandes Almacenes", etc.) and about grammar, dealing with the most difficult points of the Spanish language ("Ser y Estar", "Preposiciones", "Por y Para", "Diferencias entre los pasados", etc.)

If required, we can arrange accommodation acting as intermediary, with the guarantee that it will be ready for your arrival.

Instituto Mediterráneo Sol offers the following types of accommodation:

- Shared apartment: Our apartments are full equipped:
+ Living room with TV, a place to sit and eat;
+ Kitchen with fridge, washing machine, cooker/stove;
+ Bathroom.
- Home Stay accommodation: half board (two meals: breakfast, lunch or dinner) or full board (three meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner), single or double room. A washing of clothes per week is included. It is necessary to include in the enrollment any kind of allergies, nutritional habits, if smoker or not etc.
- Shared apartment with Spanish people: It is possible to choose this option only in Granada. Places are limited, so it is necessary to ask availability before confirming. In this option, participants can share the apartment with a Spanish family or just with one person, with the possibility of using common areas.
- Hotel/Hostal and individual apartment booking: If required, we can also arrange this kind of accommodation. Prices depend on requirements.

Granada is a town situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada. It has a population of 280.000 and it is an ideal site for winter sports being 36 km away from the winter resort of Sierra Nevada (3.480 m).

Moreover, Granada is only 75 km far away from the famous Tropical Coast. There are many sides to the town:

* A Moorish town: it was the last kingdom to be reconquered by the Christians from the Moors. Its Moorishness is evident throughout the town, but especially in the Alhambra Palace and Generalife, one of the most visited monuments in the world, and, on the opposite hill, the Albaicín, the ancient moorish quarter with its narrow cobbled lanes and squares and traditional houses.
* A Renaissance and modernist town: Renaissance because of the large amount of buildings in this style of architecture, particularly religious buildings, which were built at the time of the Christians arrival in the 16th century. Modernist since the beginning of the 20th century because of the modernist style borrowed from Catalonia after the creation of the Granadan sugar refining industry.
* A centre for Flamenco, centred on the district of Sacromonte, inhabited by gypsies who have become singers, dancers and guitarists. They have spread their art throughout the world.
* A university town, with one of the oldest universities in Spain (over 500 years old) and one of the biggest ones, with about 60,000 students coming from all over the world. Walking on the streets and going to the tapas' bars you will find a young environment, that gives to Granada a typically Spanish character.
* A cultural town: apart from Semana Santa (Easter) and Fiestas del Corpus, other events stand out: jazz festival (autumn), international festival of theatre (spring) and international festival of music and dance (spring). As well as these events theatrical representations, concerts and flamenco shows, etc., occur throughout the year at the Manuel de Falla cultural centre, the Palacio de Congresos and in various other centres created for these purposes.
* It is an ideal site for winter sports being 36 km away from the winter resort of Sierra Nevada whose sports facilities are easily accessible from the town. Here several international championships take place, among them the World Ski Championships in 1995. Sports lovers of any kind have ample opportunity to practice in sport complexes all over the town.

Granada lives in the present day without losing its traditions, its beauty or its Spanish and Andalusian flavour for one minute.

Special events:
Semana Santa (Easter), "Spring" Party, Día de la Cruz, Corpus Christie ( Feria de Granada), International Festival of Music and Dance (Summertime), Festival Flamenco, Flamenco Joven, Certamen Internacional De Guitarra, Fiesta de San Cecilio, Festival de Cortometraje, Jazz Festival, Zaidín quarter Festival, International Tango Festival (March), Summer inthe Corral del Carbón (theatre and Flamenco), etc.

Monuments and Places to visit:
Alhambra and Generalife Gardens, Cathedral, Royal Chapel, Madraza, La Virgen de las Angustias Church, San Juan de Dios Church, Santa Ana Church, San Pedro Church,Colegiata del Salvador, Carmen de los Mártires, la Cartuja Monastery, Archeological Museum, los Pisa's House, la Zambra Flamenco Museum, Albayzin, Sacromonte and Realejo Quarters, Corral del Carbón, Huerta de San Vicente, Arts and popular customs Museum, Dar Al Horra Palace, Max Moreau House-Museum, Gómez Moreno Museum, Fine Arts Museum, Carmen-Museum Rodríguez Acosta, Manuel de Falla House-Museum, San Jerónimo Monastery, Sciences Park, Contemporary Arts Centre, Jose Guerrero Museum, Plaza Nueva, Plaza de la Trinidad, Plaza de Bib-Rambla, Plaza del Carmen (City Hold), Winter Park "Llano de la Perdiz", García Lorca Park (Huerta de San Vicente), La Alpujarra, Natural Park of "Sierra Nevada", etc.