one year in spain learning a language with a 6 years old child going to a local school
Jan 8, 2010 · nada · 6 replies · 15971 views
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hi
i live in the UK, and currently i am doing a hairdressing course which will finish in June. i have a 7 year old son. i would like to go to Spain for one year to learn Spanish in a language school, and for my son to learn Spanish in a local school. i have travelled to Spain before with him and found Spanish kids to be friendly and they approached him in the streets to play. i would like to go to an area where there is a nice beach nearby and a language school plus a spanish primary school. i would like to rent a small place like a one or two bedroom flat.
my priority is to live in a nice, and friendly community. More importantly, i would like to live in a safe area and not too expensive. Someone suggested Alicante. but i have not been there and i don't know where to start. i suppose every place has bad areas and good areas.
can you please help me? if you know other nice areas other than Alicante i welcome your suggestions. also i would like to be put in touch with landlords to discuss rent.
thanks
Nada
Jan 8, 2010 · Expatriator
Alicante sounds good. Aguilas is fairly close, very Spanish, nice beaches.
Jan 9, 2010 · tezza
hi
I live in Guardamar del Segura which is about 30 mins from Alicante itself, my children all go to spanish state schools which they love and fit in really well, apartments are very cheap to rent in the town which is very spanish or you have the option of lots of urbanisations are the outskirts, feel free to pm me if you want anymore info
Jan 9, 2010 · nada
hi
many thanks for the quick reply. Guardamar del Segura sounds like a good place. i checked it on the internet. i would like to check about availabilty of a language school for me. i like to learn spanish the first three months. how far is the beach? it looks gorgeous in the picture. . how far is the school? i won't have a car, so i would like either to walk or use public transport. have you got any information about prices of rentals? i would like either a one bedroom or two bedroom flat. above all, is it a safe place?
how do you get to Guardamar del Segura from the airport? is there a public transport?
thanks again
Mar 1, 2010 · SpainExpat member
Hi
Maybe we can help you. We have a language school in Almoadi. We teach Spanish & English to adults & children. We are often used by parents that want to enroll their children into Spanish Main stream school but would like them to learn a bit of Spanish before they enroll. the parents then once packed their kids off to school can come back during the day for lessons for themselves.