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**NEW** Spanish Business Workshop Date
Following the huge success of the last business workshop, we will be repeating the same workshop on Saturday 26th April 2008 at Jane Cronin´s academy in San Pedro del Pinatar.

This course has been developed in response to the needs of English speaking people working in Spain. Many people may have learnt to get by in Spanish at a basic level, but feel they lack the language skills to conduct a sales visit, answer a business enquiry or network with Spanish professionals in their particular field of work.
Consequently huge opportunities can be lost to penetrate the Spanish business community and develop ones business potential in a competitive environment.


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This Week - The Letter Z
Image Well, here we are at the final letter of the alphabet! The letter Z, which is called “ceta”, is pronounced the same as the letter C when it is found before an E or an I, that is, a soft “th” sound. The Z is always spoken in this way in standard Castilian Spanish, whereas in South American Spanish, and some European Spanish accents, it is pronounced like the letter S.

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April 2008 Standard Courses

Image STANDARD Spanish Language Courses

(A 12-week course of two 2-hour classes per week. Total 48 hours)

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The letter Y
Image If you think about the letter Y in English, it actually has a dual function. Sometimes it is a vowel, as in the word “pretty”, and sometimes it is a consonant, as in the word “yellow”.

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The Letter X
Image The X is usually pronounced in a similar way to English (a “ks” sound) in words like taxi although because of the Spanish tendency to soften consonants when spoken at speed the X sometimes comes over as more of an “s” sound, that is, the “k” part lightens or can even disappear.

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Spanish Business Workshop
Image This course has been developed in response to the needs of English speaking people working in Spain. Many people may have learnt to get by in Spanish at a basic level, but feel they lack the language skills to conduct a sales visit, answer a business enquiry or network with Spanish professionals in their particular field of work.
Consequently huge opportunities can be lost to penetrate the Spanish business community and develop ones business potential in a competitive environment.


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*NEW* Survivial and Essential dates for Thalasia Hotel
Image The success of Jane Cronin’s Survival and Essential Spanish courses has become well known since their beginning in January 2006. Over two thousand people have attended the courses and have been set on the road of communicating in Spanish by the combination of Jane’s expert teaching and easy going style.

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The Letter W
Image The letter W is not actually a native Spanish letter. The name of it is “uvedoble” and the few times it does appear it is pronounced in the same way as the “uve” or V – that is, as a soft B sound.

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