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OPEN DAY 2015


The programme with specific times and activities will be available on the EOI Alcalá website shortly.

You can bring your family, friends, neighbours,... Everybody is welcome!!
I'll be there the whole afternoon/evening shift and really hope to see you there!!

By the way, our school will hold the 25th anniversary next year but do you know how old the "Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas" are? OVER 100 YEARS OLD!!!


Allow me to wrap this post up with a personal recommendation. Some years ago, one of my students recommended a book that I enjoyed tremendously. It was La tésis de Nancy by Ramon J. Sénder. I know, I know, it's in Spanish but, nevertheless you'll be able to put to test your English knowledge since only people who can speak both English and Spanish can fully get the reasons for the misunderstandings.

La tésis de Nancy: Written in the 1950s by a Spanish-born, US University professor, this is a very funny story about a young, rather innocent college-aged girl named Nancy who has taken a year to study in Spain. She finds herself in Seville and quickly enmeshed in a group of, for lack of a better word, gypsies.

The book is centered around Nancy's desire to study this particular sub-culture and the funniest occasions arise when Nancy tries to understand all of the slang to which she is constantly introduced. I have only ever seen the book in Spanish and it works wonderfully well in Spanish since the string of chronic misunderstandings between Nancy and her boyfriend and the other Spaniards she encounters are based on her assumption of what words and phrases actually mean.

To someone for whom (Spain, or "Castilian" ) Spanish is a first language, this is a weepily funny book as the reader follows Nancy from each party to each visit to each trip and finds her constantly assuming the most innocent definitions and intentions from the least innocent of speakers and situations.

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