IBERO Spanish School is currently located in downtown Buenos Aires with impressive facilities and an own Spanish language learning curriculum with 8 levels. The school is nationally and internationally accredited. Students have the option of preparing for international examinations, studying area-specific vocabulary and Spanish teachers abroad can attend special Ãbero training courses (Option to sign up for the TEFL certification program).
Ãbero Spanish School www.iberospanish.com- Special Program Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Luis Borges is a famous Argentine writer and poet born in Buenos Aires in August of 1899. From a very early age, he fluently spoke both English and Spanish. In 1914, when his father´s eyesight failed, the family moved to Switzerland. In Switzerland, Borges learned French and German and graduated from the College of Geneva in 1918. After Borges graduated, the family moved around Spain living in Barcelona, Mallorca, Seville and Madrid. It was in Spain that Borges wrote and published his first poem, â??Hymn to the Sea.â?
When Borges returned to Argentina in 1921 with his family, his career as an author/poet officially began. Several of his poems and essays were published in a wide variety of literary journals. In the 1930´s, he began his existential work and continued contributing to weekly journals as well as writing short novels. It was during this time that Borges began working in the Buenos Aires Municipal Library, where he later was dismissed by the President Juan Perón for speaking out against the Peronistas. Shortly after leaving the library, Borges went completely blind.Â
In his later years, Borges worked as Director in the National Public Library and taught literature classes in the University of Buenos Aires. He continued reading and writing with the assistance of his mother. He received a National Prize for Literature from the University of Cuyo and numerous other literary honors for his work. He died of cancer in 1986 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ãbero Spanish School www.iberospanish.com offers a private Spanish course studying the work and life of this fascinating author. The course is for 10 hours a week and includes multimedia activites, selective readings of Borges texts and analysis of the impact and influence his work has had in the world of literature. â??The study of the greatest author of all time is essential to our curriculumâ? says Florencia Bozzano, Director at Ãbero Spanish School.
The course also includes visits to places frequented by this famous Argentine writer as well as a museum dedicated to his life.Â
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