Spanish intensive courses - summer (A1, A2, B1)

I came to the school back in August 2022 for the Linneuniversitet course. Back then I had little to no knowledge of Spanish. From the very first day I felt very welcomed by Eva. She really put in effort and helped me with every question I had. Since I have dyslexia I was quite worried that the course would be tough for me but due to the fun ways of learning and all of the practical exercises I learned so much.

The administration helped me with my dyslexia letting me do test in new ways that was more fitted for me. I’ve never experienced that before and I’m so thankful. After the first course I went on to do the continuing course where I got a very close coursers learning experience. I became close friend with all of the teachers on the school. They all complete each other so well. I have learned so much from all of them. Not only lessons in Spanish but things I’ll take with me forever. My Spanish increasing with each week that past. Finally I took a third course, the COOP one. The level of professionalism increased and the topics that we talked about got more interesting. I’m thankful to have had Carlos taking his time to help us with our volunteer work yet to come.

Since I first stared on the school I’ve taken my Spanish form a A1 to a C1/2. Two years ago I would never belive that I would get to this point. I’ve gotten to experience so much, meet so many incredible people and learned a lot.

I will always be thankful to Eva and Omar and the rest of the ISBarcelona for giving me all of these opportunities and letting me go with this path of life

Will always recommend

I've taken four courses at Internationella Skolorna, starting with a summer course, at level A1 and ending with a spring course, level at level B1. The teachers and the staff are absolutely amazing! Attentive, caring, knowledgeable, approachable, funny and warm! They listen to your needs and help you with whatever questions you may have, be it something about the contents of the course, something about Spanish bureaucracy, or financial aid - they are there to help you and guide you.

My experience is a mixed bag varying from basic-level courses to full-time university courses where you really had to dig in. No matter the type of course the teachers adapt and give everything they can to fulfill your expectations. The spread of this school is incredible! One day you could be learning grammar and conjugation in the form of dance and rhythm on the terrace, to another day biting into a play by Lorca, dissecting the symbolic meaning of blinds, meanwhile in between those two classes, perhaps dress up for a bit of role-play and sketch writing, practising pronunciation! Incredible!

The school also arranges excursions to museums, nearby parks, historic sites, and even other towns and cities around Barcelona! The location is great if a bit noisy with Via Laietana being one of the main streets for strikes, protests, and eternal road construction. You can easily walk or bike here, or catch a bus or the nearby metro. I spent nearly three years at Internationella Skolorna and I can't recommend it enough. My Spanish improved tenfold and I made friends for life.

First of all, my time at the school , autumn 2007 " Spanska i Praktiken " were the best time in my life. I got to know so many cool pepeople at the school and the teachers were amazing. The atmosphere is warm among students and teachers. There is a William to learn from both students and teachers. The school is located in the city. Metro is near and the Streets where the school is, Via Laietana is one of my favourite Streets in Barcelona. The street is large. It would take you to the harbour and up to the city. The school facilities are fresh and it's over all high standard. At the terrace u can study hang out and look at the city view.

Since my time 2007 i've recommend several students to go there. It's a life experience. Omar and Eva makes you feel that your part of the family. They see each students as individuals and your not only students there, it's a beginning to life long friendship.

I had the time of my life there and got friends for life. I still have contact with a few of them students from class of 2007.

That's sats all! Lots of love / Sanny from Sweden

To attend classes on Internationella skolorna in Barcelona was an absolute pleasure, such a heart warming, openminded and loving environment, teachers where really good, funny and making me walk in and out of classes with a big smile, weekly field trips which was amazing to be able to connect on a deeper level with the classmates, teachers, people and city and of course the administration of the school was top class.

In short a couple of courses made me not knowing one single sentence to be able to get a Spanish speaking job and stay in Spain for years to come.

Thank you for everything,

Jai Ram!

I joined a combined course ot beginner spanish and Yoga during 8 weeks. The classes in spanish was very well structured and all lessons where in spanish. The teachers where fantastic (rating 5 out of 5), very motivated to learn us struggeling beginners a broad flavour of grammatics and new words that can be used in daily life in Spain. I learned a lot during these 8 weeks and I got a really good base to stand on ! The Yoga was also great, with fantastic and highly motivated yoga teachers (5 out of 5). I was a less beginner in yoga as I where in the spanish language, but nevertheless I was fairly unskilled also in this disipline but I learned a lot and became much more comfortable in various executions and also more motivated to continue with Yoga coming back to daily life in Sweden. It's good for and old body of 65 !

The location is in the centre of Barcelona in a very nice building on the 6th floor. The best thing with the locations is the terrace with wide view over parts of Barcelona. A terrace which was used for small breaks, lunch breaks and sometimes also for Yoga lessons. There is a small kitchen with a few microwaves and a refrigerator.

The facilities for the spanish lessons was was in 5 different rooms, well prepared for language courses. The Yoga facility was located on the 3rd floor in a cosy and charming yoga studio.

Every two weeks on friday, we had activities as sisgtseeing in Barcelona and volleyball at the beach, which was very appreciated and great fun.

I had 8 fantastic weeks with my lovely class mates, with the increadible teachers, the great admin staf, who all made the combined Spanish and Yoga course to become a great memory for life and a platform to further develop my skills in spanish and Yoga. I can only say thanks or Gracias !

The school in Barcelona is very nicely located in the heart of the city. The view from the térreas is fantastic. The way the teachers are acting’s is super in many ways. Very pedagogical a lot of playfulness and they are using the hole body to make us understand the Spanish language. We stayed in Barceloneta works perfectly no problem to walk to school. Quite high tempo at the lessons and we have to do som homework almost every day. I didn’t know any Spanish before and this week’s gave me a good start. Our class was the best and we get very well along. I do not regret my time at the school in Barcelona.

I liked that they focused on the practical and spoke Spanish with us. It was allmost 99% Spanish and a very very few words in English when nobody understand the Spanish word. I think the school should focus more on intercambio or learning cafes so we could speak with people in spanish. They did so but I would more of it.

The teachers should skip the books and focus on their own material because the book material was not so good in my opinion.

You should focus that the student will work on writing and have seminars on a topic in a Spanish they know so you can se improvementas.

Also you should have "late" nights or extra Spanish lessons or lectures for those who have reading of writing difficulties.

I general i was very happy with the education. I've learned so much and so fast and short of time. The teachers and principal Omar Ceron was very helpful and helped me alot.

Marcel was one of the best teachers I ever met, and Rossi was good as well.

Good luck with you school

I loved the classes, students and teachers. I not only learned spanish very well, I also got friends for life and I still miss the lovely teachers Malú, Marcel and Rosi!! I had the best time. Great location and facility, classes were fun and educational, teachers and staff were warm and welcoming. I’m very grateful for my time there and I would recommend it to anyone!!!

I really liked the school and concept overall. All the teachers and principals were really helpful and listened to all your needs.
The teachers made the classes funny and interesting and I learned a lot of Spanish but also about the Spanish culture and history. The principals helped me a lot with things outside the school as well, I could always go to them when I had a problem.
In my class we used to have small trips in the city and also outside the city which was great because we spoke Spanish with Spanish people and the group got to know each other better as well. I would recommend this school to everybody as the experience was really great!