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Tennis Camp and Water Sports Camps in Spain, Summer 2009

We started offering more detailed info on the Basketball Camp, but Amelia, Alicante ZadorSpain Director, asked me why the basketball camp deserved a new website and what happened with the Tennis Camp, Sailing Camp or Windsurfing Camp… and as a result of this question, now juniors and teenagers, and parents, of course, can check the information on Summer Camps for kids at specific Websites:

- Tennis camp in Spain

- Water Spors Camps in Spain

At the moment the information about these Summer Camps  are in English, but we continue working to offer them in different languages.

Tennis Summer Camp in Spain in 2009

In Summer 2008 the most successful Junior Program was Tennis Summer Camp. We offered a Tennis Camp with Intensive Tennis Training in the morning to prepare young tennis players for tournaments. As players needed to play hard, we thought that the best option would be just to play tennis, live with a host family and participate in some cultural activities, games, excursions and so on, without Spanish lessons. However, all of them surprised us wishing to attend Spanish lessons and not 2 lessons every day but four lessons. Obviously they are younger than us and very strong teens.

That’s why for this Summer 2009 we have modified a little bit the program Tennis Camp for teenagers: they play tennis in the morning, as hard as last year, and they will go to the Spanish School in the afternoon to have 3 Spanish lessons per day, and later, activities, games, cultural visits and some excursions for the weekend.

So, we expect to receive young tennis players with at least the same energy and enthusiasm than the energetic and hardworker tennis players of last Summer because they will have many activities to take part in.

If you want to know more about the Tennis Schedule at the Summer camp 2009.

Basketball Camp in Spain Website in different languages

Of course, you can consult the most important information about Basketball Camp at ZadorSpain Camps Website. However, with the aim of offering more detailed, and easier to find,  information about Basketball Camp in Spain , we now have some specific Websites in different languages:

- Thanks to Giorgia you can read the information on basketball camp in Italian: Campo Estivo di Basket in Spagna

- Marion worked hard to translate the Website into German language and the result is: Basketballcamp in Spanien

- Pierre was responsible for the French translation, and he finished but the webmaster didn’t, and therefore basketball players from France interested in the Camp de basket en Espagne must wait, I hope not too much time.

Join Columbia College and travel to Spain

Columbia College is going to visit us from June 6-20, 2009  and…

you can join them for a Study trip to Spain!

Columbia College instructor Vonna Breeze-Martin invites  you to come with them and enjoy the beaches of San Sebastian, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the ancient walled town of La Guardia, study at Zador Spanish Institute…live with a Spanish family… ¡y mucho mas!

Earn Spanish and World Cultures credit! Columbia College Study Trip 2009

Columbia College designers has created this beautiful poster.

You can check the Website http://www.gocolumbia.edu/breezev/Spain/Website2008.htm for more information and there you have the contact details.

New program 2009: International Basketball Camp

Our last post was about TAU Ceramica Baskonia winning the Spanish Basketball league and… now we want to present a new program between ZadorSpain language School and TAU Ceramica:

International Basketball Summer Camp in July in Vitoria: a great opportunity to play basketball, learn Spanish and meet other young basketball players from Spain and from other countries. You will find all the information about the basketball Camp on Basketball Camp Spain website.

Poor blog: months and months waiting

Sorry to all the readers of this blog! Lessons, language exhibition fairs, new programs… too much work. OK, and some weeks on holidays visiting Galicia. Besides some of the most creative contributors such as Tina and Doro came back to Germany. It was a pity for us and… for the blog.

 But, we are here again with more information about Spanish language and Spain. Please, keep in touch with us and with this blog.

TAU BASKONIA Campeón de la liga de baloncesto

Después de dos semanas con algunos problemitas y un montón de clases de español al día, con estudiantes muy trabajadores que hacen ejercicios a porrillo, lo cual me parece muy bien, pero…. que luego tengo que corregir, vuelvo a escribir en el blog… por un tema no relacionado con el español:

 ¡¡¡¡¡¡TAU BASKONIA ES CAMPEÓN DE LA LIGA DE BALONCESTO DE ESPAÑA!!!!!!!!

 

Lo siento ya sé que no es un vídeo muy bueno,  y es que saltar, gritar BASKONIA, BASKONIA, cantar  y sacar un vídeo al mismo tiempo parece que es incompatible.

Se admiten felicitaciones,no por elvídeo, claro, sino porque por fin este año sí somos campeones. Muchas gracias de antemano.

 

Spanish word of the day: Ropa

(la) ropa
noun, feminine

Spanish - English translation: Clothes.

Etymology: Del gót. *raupa, botín.

Meaning:

  • Prenda de vestir .

Idioms

  • Ropa blanca: household linen.
  • Ropa de cama: Bed linen.
  • Ropa interior: Underwear.
  • Nadar y guardar la ropa: Not to risk everything.
  • A quemarropa: point-blank (very near) or suddenly.
  • Haber ropa tendida: When it is not convenient to talk about something because there are people who it is better do not know anything about the subjetc.

Synonymous

  • Vestido, vestimenta, ropaje, prenda, ajuar, vestuario, atuendo,  trapos .

Related words

  • Ropero. Ropaje.

False friends Spanish-English: Casual

Casual does not mean the same in English and Spanish.

Casual means accidental.

The Spanish word for casual is desenfado, deportivo.

Examples:

  • Fue un encuentro totalmente casual.
  • No me gusta demasiado la ropa formal, prefiero llevar ropa desenfada.

Spanish word of the day: Edificio

(el) edificio
noun, masculine

Spanish - English translation: Building.

Etymology: Del latín aedificium.

Meaning:

  • Construcción para albergar personas, cosas, materiales, actividades… 

Synonymous

  • Inmueble. Casa. Vivienda. Finca. Edificación.
  • Lona. Toldo. Carpa. 

Related words

  • Edificar.  Edificación.