Spanish - Advanced
This course is ideal for:
This programme is supported by Language for Fun, which encourages the study of characters, grammar, vocabulary, and other language aspects through the joy of reading.
About the book: También esto pasará
“También esto pasará”, a contemporary Spanish novel that became an international success for its honest, intimate and beautifully simple exploration of grief, memory, friendship and desire.
Although the novel deals with the death of the narrator’s mother, it is not a dark or tragic book. Instead, it reflects on how life continues even in moments of loss , through friendship, humour, summer, love, family and the sea.
The title itself, También esto pasará (“This too shall pass”), suggests one of the central ideas of the novel: that both pain and happiness are temporary.
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Maria is from Barcelona, Solsona and Menorca but has lived in England for the past twenty-three years. In her professional career she thrived at organising events and managing marketing initiatives for companies in the tourist sector.
Maria is very sociable and she is possibly one of the most known people in St. Albans. As a keen host she loves cooking and having people around her house. She is involved in the community and volunteers at a local homeless centre. Maria lives with her husband, her two children, a couple of Watford footballers and 2 guinea pigs. And most importantly, her house is always your house.
In the past, Maria has had many requests for translation, helping children with Spanish, meeting up friends to help them improve their conversational skills etc, and a couple of years ago she decided to make a living out of it and started teaching Spanish officially. And the rest is history !
