Elemadrid: Activities

Rainbow Immersion: your colorful bridge to Spanish society! The inclusion of Rainbow Immersion is an integral and essential part of all of Elemadrid's Spanish courses. It provides practical learning experiences and offers insight into Spanish customs, culture, economy, art and society.

Rainbow Immersion utilizes multi sensory learning modules, which activate, strengthen and complete linguistic knowledge. The activities are interesting, instructive, exciting, social events. Everything is communicated in Spanish, but you are seeing, feeling and experiencing colorful real life Spain. Rainbow Immersion boosts efficiency because it gives you multi sensory exposure to the Spanish language. This combined emphasis on both theoretical and practical aspects of language learning boosts motivation, and whatever your level, experience has shown us that this methodology increases language acquisition and confidence which results in significantly improved ability to master real life situations.

At the end of your course you will not only take away a significantly improved level of Spanish but also innumerable and long lasting memories.

The following 3 inter-active performances are held in the afternoon after regular Spanish classes three times a week. Participation in Rainbow activities is free of obligation and included in the price of all Spanish courses.

Profiles: (1-1,5 hours / week) Characteristic personalities (e.g. actor, TV-speaker, flamenco dancer, university professor, taxi driver, foreigner, gipsy, bullfighter, etc.) come to Elemadrid for presentations. These classes are moderated by a native Spanish teacher, which enables you to gain personal impressions of how Spaniards live, work, and think.

Spain Today: (1-2 hours / week) These lessons offer qualified information and practical experiences in a number of selected areas of contemporary Spain's culture, politics, and economy (e.g. history of Spanish language; flamenco dance, Mediterranean diet, local products: saffron, olive oil, cork; fashion in Spain; and more).

Discover Madrid: (2-3 hours / week) Guided tours provide insights into the Spanish culture, history, art, and economy (e.g. the Royal carpet factory, tapas restaurants, modern/old Madrid, bullfighting training center, police station, local markets, typical high school, Flamenco school, Prado art museum, etc.).

Full back up material such as information booklets that accompany Excursions, compilation of lecture notes, and summaries of the interviews are available.

Cultural Activities

All these optional courses are part of an efficient language learning system: they supplement the teaching concept of "carefully dosed immersion" in the Spanish language and culture, they are flexible in regard to times, and they are attuned to different stages of Spanish proficiency. They facilitate getting in contact with Spaniards and, thus, considerably accelerate the language learning process. Once more, they are fun!

Spanish Dancing Classes --Tango -Salsa - Merengue - Sevillana - Flamenco.
All dancing classes are held by professional dancers both, at Elemadrid and at dancing schools in Madrid. They start in the afternoon or evening after regular Spanish classes and must be booked and paid for separately upon arrival.

Art Seminars
Spanish Art Seminars are held after regular Spanish classes or during the weekends and take place either at Elemadrid or at other locations. You may register for these seminars after your arrival in Madrid. Options are announced at the school and depend on student interest. The school's art teacher is a native Spanish speaker. He is a professional painter and an expert on Spanish art. During the week (after regular classes) or on weekends he holds:

Painting classes: an excellent opportunity to get background information about painting, to learn more about painting techniques, materials, colors, or simply find out how creative and relaxing painting can be.

In a painter's studio: you will have a chance to talk to a professional painter at his work place and see what materials and techniques he uses and how a piece of art comes into being.

Guided art excursions & museum tours: to the Prado, Thyssen, and Reina Sofia in Madrid, to the art museum in Ciudad Real, to Toledo or to the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao (all guided by the art teacher).

Spanish Conversation
After regular Spanish lessons or over the weekend you may want to improve your conversational skills.

Free conversation with Spaniards: waiting for you to contact them. You will share the time between your and their mother tongue. Check out our list of names of Spaniards interested in conversation.

Meet professional colleagues: physicians, architects, lawyers etc. are interested to converse with colleagues from all over the world. We arrange appointments for a small fee.

Leisure Activity Courses

Have you always wanted to be initiated into the secrets of wine tasting? Want to find out more about flamenco or sevillana? Want to learn to cook Mediterranean specialties? All Leisure Activity Courses are part of an efficient language and culture immersion program. The focal point falls on interest in a specific subject and social collaboration with Spaniards who share your interests.

The sessions are held in the afternoon or evening and are conducted by guest speakers both in school and at other locations. Note: These courses must be booked in Madrid and paid for separately. Numbers in brackets indicate the recommended minimum level of Spanish proficiency:

(1) Initial
(2) Elementary
(3) Lower intermediate
(4) Higher intermediate
(5) Advanced

Smart Incentives
During Private Lessons with your teacher you can combine Spanish conversation with a visit to the place of your interest.

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