Spanish Language School in west of Spain

Academia Berceo, Cáceres:
At Academia BERCEO Cáceres, Extramadura in western Spain, our fully structured teaching programme ensures that the students get all the individual care and attention they need within the atmosphere of friendliness and internationality which makes our school so special.

The goal of  BERCEO is to ensure that our students learn to understand, speak and write Spanish in the shortest time possible and with minimal effort, and that this knowledge remains engraved in their memory forever.

In order to achieve this objective most efficiently our teaching system incorporates the most up to date methods and technology. Our curriculum concentrates on communication without neglecting the formal aspect of language teaching. We believe that grammar and vocabulary are fundamental to the learning process, and that they provide the student with the opportunity to analyse and correct his or her mistakes. Our technique is based on the "reversible" approach: we link the formal aspects of the language to communication skills, which focus on language learning and experience. Sometimes the student, depending on his or her requirements, goes from formal study to communication; but sometimes the reverse takes place.

Full Immersion Spanish Courses; General Spanish Courses; Individual Spanish Lessons.

BERCEO provides many options for accommodation including:
- Homestays. The best way to master the Spanish language
- Apartments with single or double room.

We have a lot to offer outside the classroom. Activities include:
* Parties and Barbecues
* Quizes and learning games
* Swimming pools for summer and winter
* Tennis, golf, squash, etc.
* Photography courses
* Spanish guitar classes
* Ten-pin bowling
* visting museums
* touring surrounding cities

Located in Extramadura, western Spain, the Cáceres is a beautiful small city with 68,000 inhabitants. In general, the climate is dry with hardly any rain and mild because of the winds blowing across neighbouring Portugal from the Atlantic. Popular traditions are Best observed in the large number of "romerías", i.e., festive excursions to a saint's shrine, and in the regional costumes which are sober for men, but very colourful for women, especially the skirts and flowery kerchiefs and above all the rich, many-coloured hat of braided straw, the one from Montehermoso.

There is a great variety of fish and game: Boar, Red deer, Spanish Ibex, Pheasant, Bustard, Heron, Crane, a lot of Partridge and Rabbit; and in the rivers, Carp, Tench, Trout, Pike and Perch. Game and fish provide the basis for an uncomplicated way of cooking, which is very tasty with many recipes coming from its important monasteries. Especially outstanding are el frite, la caldereta (a lamb stew) and the typical migas con torreznos.

To round off this list of specialties, special mention must be made of the famous Montánchez hams and sausage products as well as of the local wines which are proof of the wine production of Cáceres.