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¡El Mundial empieza ahora! (resumen de la primera fase)

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It looks like many of you are following the World Cup because unless it’s a coincidence during the last two weeks our course attendances are lower than usual. Remember that you can record your matches! As you probably follow Alberto’s amazing blogs, this World Cup started with a record of 8 teams from Spanish Speaking countries. At Vamos we support all of them but I have to say that our favourite one is Spain. It probably helps that’s where most…


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Today the World cup started

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Today the World cup started, probably one of the biggest events to enjoy, especially in a big city as London where you can find people from all nationalities involved in the games. In Vamos we support Spain!! After winning the World cup 8 years ago we still have a very good group of players and that is the reason why everybody (bets included) put us as one of the favourites to win the cup together with Brazil, Argentina, Germany and…


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Frida Kahlo ‘Making Her Self Up Exhibition’ – Saturday 16 June

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This exhibition one of the most awaited events in London. As you may know Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico on July 6 1907 and died on July 13 1954. She is one of the most recognised Latin American female artist of the 20th century, widely known for her famous self-portraits and for empowering herself through art. Kahlo became a defiant feminist symbol. After a horrid bus accident, she was self-taught and started to focus on painting, while she had…


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La piel que habito (2011) Friday 11 May 7.30pm -10.30pm

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Hola cine adictos, Do you miss our cinema nights? I do. But do not worry, it is coming. As we were doing some other social events and also Easter was on the way, we haven´t been able to organise a movie night earlier. But finally the night has come and we will see each other enjoying pizza and a drink on Friday 11th May. It is great to see how students are so happy to take part of different social…


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Misunderstood expression of the week -‘dar gato por liebre’

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Spanish use this expression in a metaphorical way, but its origin from centuries ago is real. Continue reading if you want to know why. In medieval days hostelries were unpopular because of the food they served. The most common technique was to give cat meat when customers asked for hare. Today Spanish use this expression when someone tries to cheat with something similar but inferior. But this was not the only scam they made. True or not, other tricks were…


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