Catalan and Spanish in la Bordeta
Learning the language when you already have a job
Groups of six, two fixed evenings a week, ten minutes from Plaça de Sants. The autumn groups start on 6 October.
Why this school
Built for people who finish work at six
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Six students, never more
In a group of six you speak every single class. In a group of twenty you listen to other people speak and go home exactly as you arrived.
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Two evenings, always the same ones
You choose your slot when you enrol and it does not move for the whole term. Block it in your work calendar once and forget about it.
Miss a week and you catch it up
A work trip, a night shift, a child with a temperature. Every term includes two catch-up sessions, and you can sit in with the parallel group on the other evening.
Straight talk about official certificates
We tell you which level the job, the paperwork or the citizenship application actually requires, and how far away you are from it.
What you can study
Four ways to come
Everything is taught in person, on Carrer de Melcior de Palau. We do not teach over video calls.
Catalan, A1 to C1
From your first sentence to the level asked for in the public administration and in much of healthcare and teaching.
From 00
Spanish, A1 to B2
For people who moved here for work and cope in English at the office, but not with the landlord, the doctor or the tax adviser.
From 00
Conversation club
Wednesdays at 19:00, one hour, eight people and one topic. Free if you are enrolled this term.
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Exam preparation
The Direcció General de Política Lingüística certificates for Catalan, DELE and SIELE for Spanish.
From 00
The school
Fourteen years of teaching tired people
We opened in 2011 in a flat on Carrer de Melcior de Palau with two classrooms and a group of five. We are still in the same flat, with four classrooms and the same evening timetable, because nearly everyone here comes straight from work. That decides how we teach: we start on time, we finish on time, and we do not set homework for the weekend.
Aula Bordeta
- 2011The year we opened
- 6Students per group, at most
- 30Hours of class per term
- 9Teachers, all on salaried contracts
Students
People who came for work and stayed
I had been in Barcelona three years ordering coffee in English. Here, in my second term, I argued about a bill on the telephone and won.
Saoirse DevlinProduct designer, Spanish B1 I needed C1 Catalan to apply for a post at the hospital. On day one they told me I was two courses away, not one. It was uncomfortable and it was true.
Rahul MenonNurse, Catalan C1 I travel one week in three. This is the first school where missing a class does not mean losing the course.
Émilie RoussetSales manager, Catalan A2
The autumn groups start on 6 October
Enrolment closes a week before that, or earlier if the group reaches six. The trial class is free and commits you to nothing.