Come to one of the world’s most unique corners to improve your Spanish language skills while gaining invaluable international internship experience in an area pertinent to your study field and interests. Participants will leave Spain not only having learned about Spanish language and culture, but with an improved resume that will provide an advantage in any future career paths. Finally, participants will be living in Andalusian Spain in a small historical city with an abundance of charm and Moorish influence.
Positions and start dates are limited.
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Eligibility:
* Particiapants must be at least 18 years old
* Participants must speak intermediate Spanish
* Participants must be eligible for a tourist or student visa to Spain, or a citizen of an EU member country
* Participants must have completed at least one year of university coursework
Location:
Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz, Spain
Length
of program:
8 to 12 weeks
Start
dates:
Saturdays
throughout the year (except for December 15 - January 15) What
you get:
The School
The school building dates from the middle of the nineteenth century and is constructed on top of the ancient Moorish town walls. Large sections of these walls, which were built in the eleventh century, have been preserved, including the watchtower, which overlooks the school’s garden.
The school also has two Andalusian interior patios, a garden with orange trees, jasmine and bougainvillea, a terrace facing south across rolling countryside and an enormous azotea or roof, with views in all directions—from Medina Sidonia in the north, to Morocco in the south. The school has Wi-Fi throughout the building as well as seated computer stations and a small library/ multi-media area — all these areas are available for student use.
Accommodations
You will be given the choice of 2 options: host family
or shared apartment:
Host family
You will be provided with your own room and you will
eat at home with the family. The living room and the bathroom
will be shared with the other members of the family, although
the kitchen is often reserved for the host mother who prepares
food for everyone. You will also have access to the terrace,
patio, balcony or azotea (the roof), if the house has one.
Laundry service once a week is provided. There are different
types of family: smoking and non-smoking, with children or
teenagers at home, quieter families, vegetarian, with pets
and without.
Shared apartment
Living with other students from the school and town in typical Andalusian village houses or in more modern flats. You will have a single room. From two to six people live in each house or flat. The kitchen, living room and bathroom(s) are shared. Each house or flat has one or two bathrooms, a living room and a fully equipped kitchen with a washing machine (or access to one). Every room has a wardrobe or set of shelves and bed linen is provided. Most accommodation have a television. The rooms will be clean and ready at check-in, after which day-to-day care is up to each individual student. Everyone has to co-operate in order to keep communal areas clean and tidy, although the school will have these cleaned periodically.
Cultural excursions
All excursions will lead by a guide who is also a professor.
Tour 1: Arabe Roots in Spain: Morroco
An excursion designed to focus on Spain’s Arabic past through a one-day excursion to Morroco, in Northern Africa. From Tarifa, the wind surfing capital of the world, students take a ferry across the famous strait to the tip of the African continent to visit Tanger. You will see the Casbah, the medina where the people come to shop, an oriental rug factory and an antique and mysterious pharmacy, as well as get a tour around the entire city in bus to get a global picture of its location and its surroundings. You will also have the chance to see a bit of desert and ride a camel, if you are so inclined. Trip includes all transport costs, entrance fees, personal AIDE professor and guide, and lunch (except drink).
Tour 2: Roman Past: Bolonia and the ruins of Baelo Claudia
An half-day excursion which focuses on another of the large contributors to Spanish culture, the Romans. You will visit the ruins of the Roman fishing city, Bolonia. The Roman ruins of Baelo Claudia show how important the town used to be as a fish-salting community. It was a Roman settlement located just north of the present coastal fishing village on the Atlantic coast of the Costa de la Luz, some 15km north of Tarifa. The town developed about 2000 years BC as a maritime link to Tangier. It became an important fish-salting,
industrial centre and was thriving at the time of Emperor Claudius (41 -45 AD) By the second century it was in decline and was nearly destroyed by an earthquake. By the sixth century AD it was abandoned. The trip includes transport, entrance fees and a trip to the beach afterwards to relax, swim and sunbathe.
Tour 3: Port to the World: Cádiz
Cádiz is thought to be the oldest city in Europe. It is like a flame stretching out into the Cadiz bay, forming a fortified peninsula attached to solid land. Under the Phoenician rule it was called Gadir. Under the name of Gadir, Cadiz began as a magnificent trading post in 1100 B. century, trading tin, silver and amber. Later it was used by the Carthaginians which made it one of the most busting port cities in the world. After Moorish rule in the 16th century, Cadiz began to prosper as having the most strategic point for trading with the New World, and indeed, Columbus sailed from this point to America on two of his voyages. We will visit the Cathedral, the Historic downtown, a look-out tower with fantastic views of the city, as well as the Caleta beach. AIDE students will have a private tour in the Maritime Museum of Cádiz which houses a multicultural treasure-box of all of the cities various history, in cluding Egyptian sarcophagi and Roman tear bottles. Trip includes: guide, entrance fees, transport.
Tour 4: The capital of Andalusia: Seville
Seville is a picture of the beautiful conflict of Spain: its ancient, multistrained past and the stretch marks of its modern future. However, the conflict is a harmonious, productive one, and the city breathes aires both new and old. It is home to the world´s largest Gothic cathedral, where the tomb of Christopher Columbus can be visited, as well as a the heart of Spanish Flamenco dance and music. We will visit the Cathedral, the Arabic Gardens, Reales Alcazares, the Jewish quarter, Barrio Santa Cruz, the Giralda, emblem of Seville and Pilate´s House. Transport, entrance fees, and guide included.
Language Course
This course is made up of twenty 50-minute classes, plus 3 additional cultural learning classes with a study of the culture in real life situations. The classes are small, with no more than 12 students per class, and usually averaging 6 hours a day. Our team of teachers goes out of their way to help participants feel at home in the Spanish culture, to learn to speak Spanish correctly, and to be able to use the language in everyday situations. We have done away with hard and fast subject divisions so that grammar, vocabulary, and culture are all learned in the natural combination of listening and speaking. The teachers and the Head of Studies have years of experience and study to their credit and are specialists in teaching Spanish as a foreign language.
Video
The use of videos in foreign language classes introduces the students to real life forms of communication and different accents.
Audio
Likewise, radio broadcasts, exercises with songs and recordings of real conversations can be of assistance to students.
Slides
The use of this kind of graphic medium is important for the culture and civilisation classes to illustrate the world that surrounds the Spanish language.
Transparencies
Ideal for the theoretical part of the class, such as language structures or lexical sets.
Personal attention
The average class has six students and the maximum number is ten. In this way, all students receive personal attention to help solve any problems that may arise as they improve their knowledge of the Spanish language and culture.
Our students range come from all over the world, from a variety of backgrounds. Students interested in transferrable academic credits for U.S. universities should contact us for further details.
Internship placement
We offer internship placement in the following fields:
Business/General
Advertising
Design
Architecture
Finance/Accounting
Marketing
Environmental
Social – i.e. – NGOs
Internship Program Structure
Interns begin with Intensive Spanish language classes to begin linguistically for their placement. They must take a minimum of 2 weeks of classes, though four is suggested. In order to better place students and so that they have a more fruitful interning experience, we request that they reach an A2 level as a minimum (PreIntermediate) though B1 (Intermediate) level is preferred. While taking classes students also begin to settle into the culture, undergo Orientation and begin to study the culture through cultural activities and excursions. They will also meet with the Internship Coordinator to go over their placement site and they will work on their CV in Spanish. Classes will not take place during the internship unless the student requests to continue and the internship schedule permits this.
Students are accompanied on a first visit to the placement site and introduced to the supervisor there, which may also constitute an interview (accompanied by school staff, still) with the site supervisor. If all parties are in agreement, the placement site is confirmed. If not, then the school will look for another suitable placement.
Once the internship has begun, the school will check in periodically with both the student and placement site to assure all is going well. The student may also consult the coordinator for any needs and the coordinator will act as a mediator on the behalf of the student. At the end of the internship, students receive a letter from the school and also from the placement site, on letterhead, attesting to the students work and tasks completed while there, and a global evaluation of his or her work.
Cultural Program and Additional Free Classes
The school has a weekly cultural program which offers a different activity every afternoon, including 4 extra culturally-orientated Spanish classes which are free for students. One of these is always a dance class, and the rest may be on art history, Spanish history, Spanish cinema, culture or cuisine, phonetics and pronunciation, etc. Beach trips, and sports activities like rock climbing, wind surfing and kayaking are common. A full or half-day excursion is offered weekly, part of which will be the tours AIDE students participate in as part of their program.
Arrival orientation
Students receive a guided tour of the city, as well as a general student Orientation in the morning given by school staff. Often the first contact students have in Véjer is with their hosts or flatmates as they arrive the day before classes begin, Sunday, but students should not worry. All questions and doubts can be quelled the first day at school in Orientation
Summary:
* Pre-departure orientation materials
* Travel medical insurance
* Full-time local representative in Spain
* 24/7 personal support
* Certificate of completion (upon request)
Price:
AIDE is a non-profit organization. Donations contributed
in excess of the fair market value of services you receive
from AIDE may be tax deductible. Please consult your tax adviser.
2 week language course + 6
week professional internship + 4 cultural excursions
Shared apartment: USD$ 2,900
Host family: USD$ 3,499
4 week language course + 6 week professional internship + 4 cultural excursions
Shared apartment: USD$ 3,400
Host family: USD$ 4,199
6 week language course + 6 week professional internship + 4 cultural excursions
Shared apartment: USD$ 3,950
Host family: USD$ 4,900
Prices are subject to changes. Prices
do not include: airfare or personal expenses.
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