Beware these 15 ‘false friends’ in Spanish!

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Learning a language, Spanish

Learning a language is as much about stringing together a perfect sentence as it is about being able to laugh and pick yourself up when you make a mistake. False friends, or falsos amigos, are one such route to finding yourself in the latter situation - but what exactly are they, and how can you [...]

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Tags: etymology, false friends, falsos amigos, spanish

Variations of Spanish in the World

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad

Alex Wolfson, Cactus Language Holiday Advisor, tells us why he embraces the differences in a language as he crosses borders

Thursday, for some reason or other, is usually the quietest day of the week in the Cactus Language team for new bookings, so it is a day when I usually dedicate time to reading and replying [...]

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Tags: argentina, chile, costa rica, mexico, peru, spanish

Cactus vs. The Zutons at Glastonbury?

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Language Courses UK, Learning a language

Germaine Broadbent, Director of Sales, ponders whether we could take Cactus to Glastonbury
Just back from Glastonbury, feet aching, 4 nights of mayhem, feeling a bit floaty generally and getting back into the world of language learning at Cactus.

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Tags: glastonbury, language lessons, spanish, tefl

Online Diary: TEFL in Seville from our Scholarship winner! (4)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Learning a language, Spanish

Anna Prime, winner of the Suzanne Furstner Scholarship 07, reports back from Week 4 of her TEFL & Spanish course in Seville (Week 4 of 6)
Over the last week the pressure of work subsided somewhat because I only had one lesson to teach and I got it out the way at the beginning of the [...]

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Tags: seville, spain, spanish, suzanne furstner scholarship, tefl

Online Diary: TEFL in Seville from our Scholarship winner! (3)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Learning a language, Spanish

Anna Prime, winner of the Suzanne Furstner Scholarship 07, reports back from Week 3 of her TEFL & Spanish course in Seville (Week 3 of 6)
The insanity has not subsided, but the stress levels have. Luckily, the receptionist said that everybody who does this course tends to lose it a little bit, so we’re normal [...]

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Tags: seville, spain, spanish, suzanne furstner scholarship, tefl

Online Diary: TEFL in Seville from our Scholarship winner! (2)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Learning a language, Spanish

Anna Prime, winner of the Suzanne Furstner Scholarship 07, reports back from week 2 of her TEFL & Spanish course in Seville (Week 2 of 6)
Teaching English is definitely a job I can see myself enjoying for as long as I wish. It’s the perfect balance of logic, creativity and practicality that remains challenging and [...]

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Tags: seville, spain, spanish, suzanne furstner scholarship, tefl

Online Diary: TEFL in Seville from our Scholarship winner! (1)

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Learning a language, Spanish

Anna Prime, winner of the Suzanne Furstner Scholarship 2007, reports back from her TEFL & Spanish course in Seville (Week 1 of 6)
Seville is absolutely stunning. If someone asked me to design what I thought an idyllic Spanish city would be like, it would be close to this. The historic centre is filled with winding [...]

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Tags: seville, spain, spanish, suzanne furstner scholarship, tefl

Cactus Language ‘Survival Kits’ - your pre-holiday essential!

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, French, Italian, Language Courses UK, Learning a language, Spanish

Katie Bann of Cactus Language Training tells us about the exciting Survival Kits available this June only
‘The limits of my language are the limits of my universe’ - Ludwig Wittgenstein
This June, for the first time, Cactus are offering intensive language Survival Kits in four different languages and we are really excited about them! Being able to [...]

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Tags: evening language courses in the uk, french, italian, london, portuguese, russell square, soho, spanish, survival kit

Flamenco Flow move from Brighton Festival to Orlando Festival!

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Spanish

Having sponsored Flamenco Flow at Brighton Festival, Cactus receives good news on the Flamenco Flow world tour State-side…
Orlando Festival went very well, with seven performances there. Working with a team of two talented dancers - both female, so the dynamic was very different! - Ricardo Garcia and his manager, Julie, toured through NYC, Orlando, Montreal, Ottawa [...]

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Tags: brighton festival fringe, dance, flamenco, language holidays, orlando fringe festival, spain, spanish

Ricardo Garcia: Performance at Gilles Larrain Gallery in NYC

Posted by Sarah under Language Courses New York, Spanish

by Germaine Broadbent, Director of Sales
Ricardo and Julie invited me to a gig in NYC….sadly I couldn’t go but I can’t wait to hear all about it!
It was a Spanish evening at Gilles Larrain Studio in Soho on Thursday 29th May. See Gilles’ website here: http://www.gilleslarrain.com/index.html
Gilles took album cover photos for Miles Davis, Sting and [...]

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Tags: cactus new york, flamenco, spanish