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steviok85 · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 87

Hello all,
Has anybody heard anything about this school or know much about the town itself?

Thanks

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I haven't got anything actually useful to offer -

just that I wouldn't want the name of this school on my CV!

steviok85 · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 87

Yes it did occur to me!

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

If you ever meet Debbie and Co. you might refer them to the thread on the General Discussion forum about rebranding:) Might be a useful idea in the circumstances!

lennon146 · Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Latin America

Some of the names that go about for English-language schools are just absolutely terrible. There's one in Albacete called Nessie's School of English, complete with a logo featuring the Loch Ness monster. And yeah, adults go there too!

redsell64 · Joined: 01 Jul 2009 Posts: 2

Hi,

I used to live in Vic a beautiful medival market town near Manlleu. These places are wonderful to visit. Freezing cold in the winter(-5 or -10 centigrade) and hot and dry in the summer (30- 35 centigrade) They are steeped with history and the peasant culture lives on. Not so much with donkeys but now with Toyotas..

The downside is the Catalanism and its extremists! These areas are the central home for Catalanism and the fight for independence!.. These people are violently anti Spanish! They do not speak Spanish and those that do, do not teach it to their Children. All the state school system is delivered in Catalan and it is against the law to put up shop signs in Spanish! These people have swallowed the Nationalist handbook and vote ERC (Nationist Party) and flag wave at any event.
The young "rebel" into this movement more than most and are scary in their outlook..

Marquess · Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 165

When I worked in Spain there was a crap outfit called English Summer and their slogan was "our way of teaching makes learning fun" THEY HAD NO WAY OF TEACHİNG.

jonniboy · Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject:

SirKirby · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 261 Location: Barcelona, Spain

jovencito · Joined: 11 Oct 2005 Posts: 46

That's true, but the Catalans only sue Spanish shop owners that fail to put their signs in Spanish and Catalan.

There are documented cases of shops run by Chinese and Arabs that only have their signs in their own language. They do not get sued by the local government presumably because like the Catalans, they too aren't Spanish.

Malachite84 · Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 1

I stumbled across this post, and signed up to ESLcafe just to respond - having worked at this school and lived in Vic.

While the local populace are unreservedly pro-Catalan in their views, I found no problem living there, besides the difficulty of making good friends in a traditional, rural area. Shopkeepers spoke to me in Spanish even when I was practicing my Catalan, at least until my Catalan sounded good enough to them that they responded in that language. There is also a fair sized international student community at the local university.

Debbie's School is very successful in Manlleu, and as Debbie has taught a good many students over the last twenty odd years, keeping the brand personalised is a very good decision on her part - many of the young learners there now are the children of her first students.

The school, although small, is astonishingly well supplied, and as a DOS, Debbie is VERY professional, and good at helping teachers to develop.
I highly reccommend this school for anyone who is happy to work with young learners. I suggest that if the name of the school is a major factor in your selection of employer, you have the wrong priorities in your career.