Cervantes Institute to teach Spanish to Starbucks workers

Stacey — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:31:00 GMT

(To read in Spanish, click here)
Spain's Cervantes Institute will teach Spanish to some 100,000 Starbucks workers throughout the United States. By virtue of an agreement signed Tuesday 26 May of 2009, those 100,000 workers will be able to learn Spanish via the Institute's online Virtual Spanish Classroom (Aula Virtual de Español), or AVE.

The course will last one year and quarterly reports will be issued to evaluate how the students are progressing in learning the language, according to a press release revealed by the Cervantes Institute.

Starbucks will be able to follow the Spanish studies of its workers via AVE, which will be available on the intranet of the Seattle-based chain. Also in Seattle is the first Cervantes Classroom that the Institute opened in the United States (in Washington State), located at the University of Washington.

The Seattle Classroom will kick off the training program, which will start with a pilot course taught by professors from UW's Spanish department.

When the course ends, students will receive certification of their knowledge of Spanish with a Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language (known as DELE) awarded by the Cervantes Institute in the name of Spain's Ministry of Education.

New oportunities to study Spanish and work in Spain

admin — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:52:00 GMT

Last year we launched our Work & Study in Spain program, offering students the possibility to learn Spanish in don Quijote and to finance their stay abroad working in the Costa del Sol.

Our program combined a Spanish course in any don Quijote school with a job placement following the course allowing students to earn enough to cover their basic expenses. The only handicap is that this program is available only to citizens from Norway, Iceland or Switzerland and EU member states (except Romania and Bulgaria).

Now you have a new oportunity to study and work in Spain with a new program: Our new Study and Work in Spanish hotels program, open to participants from all nationalities.

This new course is an opportunity to improve your Spanish and to work in Spain earning a small allowance and gaining valuable work experience in Spain. You will learn Spanish with an immersion course at don Quijote before putting your new skills into practise on a paid work placement in a Hotel or Country House.

You will work on Spain´s beautiful mainland or on the Balearic or Canary Islands. Acccommodation and meals will be provided during the work placement phase and you will earn an allowance of between € 200 and € 400 per month.

We are still bussy preparing all the information about this new program for our website, but you can already get more details from our Course Counsellors, contact us now for more information and get a free brochure.

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