Fotos from FilmBath 2024 🇻🇪 🇲🇽 🇨🇱 🇩🇴
Recently, some of our students and our tutors enjoyed watching Spanish-language films from Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic as part of this year's FilmBath Latin Cinema programme. These film showing brought together our students, teachers, and members of the Latin American community, creating a lively and enriching atmosphere for learning. Hearing authentic, everyday Spanish from different countries allowed students to practice listening to a range of accents and slang, which is invaluable for building confidence in conversational Spanish.
Each film offered unique insights into how Spanish is spoken in various regions, helping students feel more prepared for real-world conversations with native speakers from diverse backgrounds. Beyond language practice, the films allowed us to connect with the cultures, histories, and perspectives of these countries, bringing Spanish to life in a way that textbooks alone can’t replicate. Watching these films together was not only educational but also a heartwarming way to deepen everyone’s connection to the language—and each other.
We visited breathtaking landscapes in rural Mexico, the Caribbean beaches of the Dominican Republic, a remote Chilean island and the Andean highway of Venezuela all from the very opulent and comfortable Everyman Cinema here in Bath. Opened our eyes and hearts to very different lifestyles and cultures to our own and can confidently say this experience has certainly challenge our stereotypes, widened our world and improved our Spanish language skills too.
Remember you can access film related vocabulary and phrases for discussing films in Lorena's Blog:
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