Estudiantes de todo el mundo protestan contra el cambio climático Jóvenes de más de 100 países salieron a la calle el viernes pasado para pedir a los políticos exigir a los políticos que adopten medidas en la lucha contra el cambio climático. En España, se convocaron protestas en 60 pueblos y ciudades de todo el...Read More

What do you think the future of Spanish teaching looks like? Join the discussion as Javier Muñoz-Basols, Elisa Gironzetti and Manel Lacorte present their Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching, a 700-pages handbook that provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching. The book launch and discussion will...Read More

The word ‘lata’ has two very different meanings in Spanish. The first one is can (the metal container in which food and drinks can be kept). This is the most common meaning and the one that most people know about. However, colloquially, “lata” also means ‘something that causes distaste and disgust‘. This is why, although...Read More

The Calçotada is a food festival that revolves around eating calçots (giant spring onions) and drinking wine from porrones (carafes). It is typical in the area of Catalonia and is celebrated every year towards the end of winter/beginning of spring. Calçots are very difficult to find outside Catalonia, so it is practically impossible to enjoy...Read More

El Museo del Prado celebra su 200 cumpleaños El Museo Nacional del Prado celebra su bicentenario este año, y lo hace conmemorando el pasado turbulento de España. Encargado por el rey Carlos III de España en la década de 1780, el Real Museo de Pintura y Escultura, que en 1868 pasó a denominarse Museo Nacional...Read More

If you keep up to date with the best Hispanic events in London, you have surely heard about FesTeLōn, short for The Festival of Spanish Theatre. Since 2013, this festival celebrates Spanish theatre in London every year in June. This year, however, we will have to wait until Autumn, since the seventh edition of FesTeLōn...Read More

España, reconocida como “el país más saludable del mundo” España ha sido oficialmente nombrada “el país más saludable del mundo”, superando a naciones como Italia e Islandia. Un estudio para el Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index analizó datos de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, la División de Población de las Naciones Unidas y el Banco...Read More

March is the month chosen by the Cervantes Theatre to showcase the cultural excellence of female creators who work and live in Madrid. They will be welcoming four theatre companies from Madrid to perform four plays written and performed by Spanish women. Titled Madrid is a Female Name, this mini-season of imports from the Spanish...Read More

This week’s misunderstood expression is “dar calabazas a alguien“, which is what you do when someone “te tira los tejos” (see last week’s expression!) but you are not interested in them. Dar calabazas, as you might have guessed, means ‘to turn somebody down‘ or ‘to reject someone‘. However, the expression’s literal meaning is ‘to give...Read More

El British Council recomienda estudiar español tras el Brexit El British Council ha publicado un estudio que aconseja a los ciudadanos del Reino Unido que mejoren sus habilidades lingüísticas mientras el país se prepara para abandonar la Unión Europea. Al igual que en el informe publicado en 2013, Languages for the Future, que proporcionó el...Read More