Spanish 1

This group currently has NO VACANCIES

Group Leader: Lydia

Venue: upstairs in the Maritime Inn, Plymouth Barbican

Day: 1st and 3rd Fridays: 14:00

This group caters for those who already have a degree of command and understanding of the Spanish language. Personal, local, national and international news continue to play a big part in our group discussions. £2 per session attended.

This group currently has no vacancies and is not operating a waiting list. When it does have a vacancy please email me (barryjcopeland2@yahoo.co.uk) and I will pass on your details.

 

Spanish 2

This group currently has NO VACANCIES. 

Group Leader: Harry

Venue: upstairs in the Maritime Inn, Plymouth Barbican

Day: 1st & 2nd Mondays: 14:00

The group is predominantly a conversational session for members who wish to improve their Spanish and are interested in Spain and Spanish culture in general (literature, art, food, wine etc). £2 per session attended. It is not a taught group and is not suitable for complete beginners.

This group currently has no vacancies and is not operating a waiting list. When it does have a vacancy please email me (barryjcopeland2@yahoo.co.uk) and I will pass on your details.

 

 

Improvers Spanish

This group currently has ONE VACANCY.

If you are interested please email me (barryjcopeland2@yahoo.co.uk).

Group Leader: Barry

Venue: Plymouth Athenaeum Library

Meet:  1st + 3rd Tuesday: 2.00pm – 3.30pm

When this group recommenced in October 2021, it was as a Beginners Spanish group and most of the participants were complete newcomers to the language. However progress has been impressive and anyone joining now will need some previous knowledge. Sessions are fairly formal and structured, basically it is a taught group rather than a conversational one. A one-off session costs £3, whilst group members pay a £10 subscription at the start of each 4 session block. All money raised pays for the room hire.

Our sessions are a mixture of speaking, reading and listening with the odd bit of writing (mostly as preparation work for the next session – I don’t want to use our face-to-face time for it). My aim is to give the group a thorough understanding of how the language works and good pronunciation skills, in order to be understood and to understand others. I add vocabulary into the start of a set of 2 or 3 sessions and cover quite a bit of grammar.

Some of the group take their grammar seriously, whilst others just speak in the present tense, use time markers and concentrate on getting the verb ending + nouns correct! Whatever their level, everybody gets something out of it (hopefully).

I would hasten to add that I am not a qualified Spanish teacher, but I was a secondary school teacher for 40 years and am a qualified teacher of English as a Foreign Language who happens to speak reasonable Spanish, but I am no more than Intermediate level. If I don’t know something than I will say so.

Please understand that you need to commit to attending on a fairly regular basis – it is not a group you can just drop in and out of.

This group has one vacancy at present.

 

Spanish Advanced Conversation

Please see the Spanish Advanced Conversation page.

 

Thanks for checking us out!

Barry  Copeland

17/03/24