Discover our new school in Guanajuato, Mexico!  

To better suit our student's needs, our school in Guanajuato has just moved to a new more exciting building. We now offer you more facilities and classrooms while maintaining all the charm of a traditional Mexican building, with a typical patio and colourful classrooms. The new school building is centrally located, with less than a 10 minute walk to one of the most beautiful theatres in Mexico, Teatro Juárez. 

The Teatro Juárez is not the only cultural monument to visit in the city. Guanajuato is full of magnificent monuments that are sure to take your breath away! So why not visit our site about Guanajuato and learn more about our new school and the magical city of Guanajuato?!  

A typical piropo from Mexico……

PARECE QUE TU CORAZÓN ME ESTÁ HABLANDO Y TUS OJOS ME ESTÁN CANTANDO.

It seems that your heart talks to me and your eyes sing to me. Beautiful, isn't it?

Oops Sorry! In last month’s newsletter the meanings were switched (formal were informal and informal were formal), but don’t worry this month its all back to normal! 

	Formal	Informal
To be a good person	Ser una Buena persona	Ser un trozo de pan
Group of friends	Un grupo de amigos	La Peña
To be an extravagant person	Ser una persona extraña	Ser mas raro que un perro verde
To get together and  chit-chat	Estar hablando	Estar de cháchara
To beat around the bush	Dar rodeos	Andarse por las ramas

Spanish 'Croquetas'

Ingredients (for 4 people):

• 1desert spoon of olive oil • 2 desert spoons of flour • 1/4 litre of milk • 1 Egg • 100 grams of bread crumbs • Nutmeg • 150 grams of ham, cut into small pieces • Salt

Steps:

1: Put the oil in a frying pan and warm it. Once the oil is warm (but before it is so hot that smoke rises from it) remove the pan from the heat and add the flour to the oil. Stir with a wooden spoon until it becomes a paste.

2: Put the pan on the heat again and add the milk, little by little, stirring the mixture all the time until it is cooked and even. Add the nutmeg, a pinch of salt and the ham cut into small pieces. Cook in the pan until the mixture is stiff, and don't stop stirring.

3: As soon as the mixture is stiff enough, spoon it into a bowl and let it cool. Beat the egg. Once the mixture is cool, make small portions and mould them with your hands into the shape of a croquette (oval). Dip each croquette into the beaten egg and then dip it into the breadcrumbs which will stick to the croquet because of the egg. Place each croquette separately on a plate. You can fry them straight away, or put them into the fridge and leave them until you are ready to cook and eat them.

4: Fry the croquettes in a pan with enough oil to cover them. When they are golden and crispy, take them out and lay them on kitchen roll to absorb the excess oil. Serve straight away.

Varieties and tips:
Croquettes made of... almost anything!!: Instead of using ham, you can use Serrano ham, bacon, cheese, tuna, cooked chicken, fish....... It is a perfect way to use up the last bits of roast meat or fish used the day before.
Make more and freeze: You can make more croquettes than you intend to use, and freeze them once they are ready to fry.

Need an online foreign-language bookstore? Check this out….

Established in 1936, Grant & Cutler is the UK’s largest foreign-language bookseller. Based in London’s West End, we supply materials in over 200 languages to individual customers and academic institutions worldwide.

Specialists in the main European languages, our Spanish department is one of the shop’s largest, selling a wide range books, CD and DVDs for all ages and levels. There is fiction, films on DVD and games as well as a lifestyle section that includes sport, self-help, cookery, interior design and travel. As well as all the language-learning courses and reference materials you would expect, you will also find books on Spanish and Latin American culture, history and contemporary issues.

Our staff are all modern language graduates fluent in at least one language other than English and experts in their field, on hand to give informed advice. The Spanish Department recommends easy readers and parallel texts to help to give you a head start with Spanish - designed to help ease adult learners into reading novels in Spanish, some also come with a free CD to help improve your pronunciation and listening skills too. Browse by category, search by title or author and buy online at www.grantandcutler.com

PLANNING A SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSE IN SPAIN OR LATIN AMERICA THIS YEAR?

If you're thinking seriously about taking an in-country Spanish language course at some point during the year or you're interested in finding out more about it then why not come along to our next don Quijote information evening on Wednesday June 28th between 6.30pm - 8.00pm.

Apart from tasting some fine riojas and tapas, you'll also find this an ideal opportunity to get answers to all those nagging questions on what to expect from an in-country Spanish language course. Our Study Counsellors will be on hand to give you advice on how to choose a programme and a location that will suit you best and everyone who joins us will go into a draw to win a weekend Spanish course at don Quijote in Barcelona.

The location is Spanish Express Language Centre, David Game House, 69 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JS - nearest tube station Notting Hill Gate on the Central Line - click here for a map   

Places are limited so please RSVP to Sarah Griffiths at a-taste-of-Spanish@donquijote.org or call us on 020 8786 8081 to let us know you will be coming.