Learning Spanish in Salamanca Spain

Find out about what it's like to learn Spanish in Salamanca. It's important to choose wisely when selecting a place to learn Spanish in Spain. Read more about Where to Learn Spanish in SpainThis question is not as silly as it may sound as there are a number of Languages Spoken in Spain.

In Salamanca they speak standard (Castillian) Spanish.

The inhabitants of Salamanca speak with one of the clearest and most easily understood. Salamanca is in the region of Castilla, which is where Castillian Spanish comes from.

People from Salamanca claim to speak with a classic, faultless accent. This is not true. They, like in Madrid, lisp the 'd' at the ends of words (making Madrid sound like 'Madrith'). Some of them also do something especially odd - lisping a hard c such as in the word 'correcto', pronouncing it as 'correthto'.

However, some odd idiosyncracies aside, listening to people from Salamanca speak is a great way of improving your Spanish.

Salamanca is a small city and though the architect and attractive plazas are interesting, there isn't much in Salamanca to keep you amused for a long time.

Salamanca has a vibrant nightlife, especially for such a small city, as it has a large student population. Unfortunately, this amounts mainly to cheesy techno music and not what you might associate with 'studenty nightlife'.

Salamanca's academic and linguistic reputation brings a lot of foreign (especially North American) students into town. Hip-hop clubs have sprouted up to cater for them.

Salamanca gets very hot in summer and extremely cold in winter. It is one of the driest regions in Spain.

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The fact that Salamanca has one of the oldest universities in Europe, combined with the belief that Salamanca Spanish is the best in Spain, means there is a disproportionately high number of language schools in Salamanca.

This is a bad thing. Lots of schools means too few students to go round. A Japanese friend of mine learned Spanish in a class that was made of of 50% Asian students and 50% Brazilians. Asians typically learn slower than the average European as their languages are so different from Spanish, whereas Brazilians find switching from Portugese to Spanish especially easy. But there were not enough students in the school to justify splitting the class in two.

Estudio Hispanico Salamanca

Univer Spain Salamanca

Isla Salamanca

Cactus Language Salamanca

Enforex Salamanca

Lingua Schools Salamanca

Nido Language Travel Salamanca

Spanish Limited Salamanca

Pontifical University of Salamanca (UPSA)

Lingua Salamanca

Spanorama Salamanca