hi everyone,
just joined the site.
moving to Sevilla in the next few weeks and going to study spanish,i would just like to know if anybody has any recommendations of any schools?
i have LINC and DON QIEJO at the top of my list at the moment as they both start this month and not to expensive.
also,if anyone lives in the city and can tell me what its like living there.
much apreciated,
rich

Just returned from a holiday in the area and Sevilla was a wonderful place to be, really enjoyed it. Lots going on, looked like plenty of night life. Bit pricy though!

hi mitzyboy,
well,i guess any city will be more expensive than the smaller towns,i chose sevilla as it is a good climate,the people are very friendly and welcoming,and the spanish is one of the purest and easiest to learn in spain,as weell as its history of course.

Agreed, its only pricey compared to where I live. You'll always expect city life to be a bit more expensive. I have a load of pictures I'm just waiting to put up on my images site, but I have to wait for a new pc screen first as with this one I can hardly see the pics to upload

Our daughter is taking classes at the University in Sevilla for one year as part of a degree she doing in Hispanic Studies with English at King's College London. She is there with lots of other 'foreign' students of all nationalities under the Erasmus exchange scheme which is funded by the EU and the British Council. Obviously it will be different if you are studying at a language school, but a few things will be common ...
It IS fairly pricey in Sevilla when it comes to flat rental etc., but I wouldn't say it was any worse than London, probably cheaper, and would be cheaper still if the euro were to weaken against the pound. Transport is cheap and easy, there are plenty of places to eat and drink cheaply and a few venues which are definitely 'student-friendly'. Our impressions so far are that it is a lovely, clean, safe city. The Spanish people there are very friendly, possibly more so than in the Costa Blanca where we have a holiday home. On the downside, it is less accessible from UK as carriers cut back on their flights to our regional airports, but I know there are two airlines at least flying direct into Gatwick and Stansted.
If you PM me your email address I will forward it to her, and hope she will get in touch to answer any questions you might have! I believe you need to make 4 posts on here before we can make contact by PM

Try this site. http://www.exploreseville.com/ On the right hand side of the page near the bottome, you will find some information about studying/learning Spanish.

Good luck

Have you heard the Andalucian dialect? I liken it to a strong Geordie accent.

yeah,very funny mate,and i have heard it yeah.

I am learning Spanish myself (albeit in UK) and whilst Sevillian Spanish is not as far removed from the 'pure' Castilian as Valenciano (which they tend to use in the area in which we have our holiday home) .... they DO have a habit of not sounding 's' in their words .. which doesn't make things all that easy ... But don't be put off .. doesn't take long to get used to it!

Actually I wasn't trying to be funny. I find it a really difficult accent to understand and many people tell me it's one of the strongest accents in Spain.

well,thats not good news,cos i have my mind set up on going to sevillla now!and ireally want to learn spanish quickly,great

I studied at CLIC in Sevilla when I arrived in Spain a few years back. I was there for 3 months in total and did one of their intensive courses (20 hrs per week).

It cost me a lot of money, but it was without a doubt the best thing I did.

www.clic.es

hi jerez,im prob going to go with LINC ,or DON QIEJO,they seem the ones that can start this month,do u knowv them?how was ther course,very hard?i am a complete beginner

Not exactly a fair comparison given that one is a completely different language to the other. A bit like saying - following an earler line - "Geordie English is not as far removed from pure Home Counties English as Welsh" .... or even French, or Swahili for that matter.

Valenciano is a dialect of Catalan (just don't shout that too loud in Valencia!!!!), a separate and distinct language from Castilian, but still in the same Latin family - much the same as Italian, Portuguese or Romanian are in the same Latin family, but knowing one of those doesn't necessarily mean you know another.

As for Sevillano accent - strangely, in contrast to other Andalucian accents, they have a habit of over-using the 's' sound, including when it is not warranted. The 'c' and 'z' sound - which should be a bit like our 'th' - always come out as 's'. A perfect example is 'cerveza' which should sound like 'thervetha" (crude, I know but illustrates the point), and does in the rest of Andalucia much like rest of Spain. Yet in Seville comes out as "Servesa".
However, in common with Andalucian accent, Sevillanos do have a habit of 'eating' their words, with many coming out clipped. It is relatively simple to spot a Sevillano in the town where I live as he'll be the only one overpronoucing his 'S'

I have to 'acclimatise' my accent when I visit Madrid as they wouldn't have a clue what I'm saying otherwise!!!!.

I do too - it almost seems that they talk completely without consonants!!