ANDAP ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE. Bogota

• ANDAP is a Spanish language school, which offers high quality training services. Our programs are divided in three levels: basic, intermediate and advance. We count with a methodology, which guarantees to live the language and therefore, learn it.
• Our groups are maximun 4 students per class, which lasts 50 minutes, the students carry out different activities such as: interactive material, conversation, reading, writing and grammar with native graduate teachers and specialized in modern languages, which gives you the opportunity to ask questions in a language different from Spanish. Each class is lead by a different teacher, which guarantees different accents, ways of expression, voices and likewise, you will learn idiomatic expressions. Our method consists in a total immersion, includes home stay with friendly families, which had been carefully selected to guarantee your complete satisfaction.
• Classes are from 8 am. To 1 pm. Our facilities, as well as the home stay are located in a sector known as Zona Rosa, with the purpose that you spend the afternoons in the environment of a cosmopolitan city enjoying activities such as: shopping, going to the movies, theaters, museums, gambling, parties etc.
• Our services include city tour and visits to nearest places of tourist interest such as: Guatavita, Villa de Leiva and Zipaquirá. Additionally, our services include pick up at the Airport (US30) and transport to the Airport (US25), transportation from home to school and back, books, internet acces, international calls at special charge. You may also select from different options of courses such as: group or individual
• We have courses available for all ages, we work all year round, for groups we start according to the schedule and for individuals, every Monday.
• You can enroll in our program and fax us the deposit receipt . in Europe, your bank may charge you a fee for the fax. IMPORTANT!! There are not refunds after the program had started.

To learn more about this Spanish School go to ANDAP

Multiplatinum artist Maelo Ruiz performing his hit "Regalame una noche" in Colombia

Many many people have seen this video in Colombia.



Check this one out and more on Youtube.

Books about Colombia

Below is a list of recommended books about Colombia’s armed conflict, the war on drugs and US intervention.

The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond by Terry Gibbs and Garry Leech (2009)

Beyond Bogotá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia by Garry Leech (2009)

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia by Jasmin Hristov (2009)

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia and the Making of a Global Working Class by Aviva Chomsky (2008)

Colombia: Between the Lines by Jason P. Howe (2008)

Driven By Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia by Russell Crandall (2008)

Counting the Dead: The Culture and Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia by Winifred Tate (2007)

Check out more book about Colombia and other topics on Colombia Journal.

Nueva Lengua Spanish School

Nueva Lengua is an international Spanish school for people from all over the world. We run Spanish courses for students, executives and families, as well as Spanish with purpose (business, medicine, etc.) courses. Our locations are in amazing places, with historical relevance.

We will find a suitable accommodation for you, you will enjoy and get to know the culture and life of the city that you choose and we will even take care of airport transfers, insurance etc. All of this guarantees that you will have an unforgettable experience.

Our school has a Spanish teacher training program which also means that we have the best teachers.

Prices are competitive and if you book in advance or study for more than a month you will enjoy special discounts.

If you are looking forward to getting to know Latin America and at the same time learning Spanish, we encourage you to take the course in any of our schools or, why not, in some or all of them. We offer you the best learning environment, resources and knowledge. You take the first step. We are looking forward to meeting you!

To keep reading about this school, go to Nueva Lengua.

Colombia Pics!! Check them out!!

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Colombian Movies. A Priest's Passion for Justice

By Helda Martínez

The latest film out of Colombia is based on the true story of a priest in a rural town whose passions include a search for justice in an area that, like so many in this civil war-torn country, is hemmed in by armed groups, whether far-right paramilitaries, leftist guerrillas or state security forces.

Gabriel is an idealistic 33-year-old priest who stands up to inept local officials as well as the heads of the armed group that holds real power in the town.

Once an irregular armed group, on the left or the right, has gained control over an area, it begins to interfere with government decisions to forward its own interests – an all-too common scenario that forms the backdrop for the film "La pasión de Gabriel" (Gabriel's Passion), whose star, Andrés Parra, has already won a Best Actor award for his performance as Father Gabriel, at the 2009 Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico.

As believing in God as he is ingenuous about earthly matters, he believes he can bring about equality, peace and respect for decisions reached by the local community, and ignores warnings to stay out of things.

The warnings become more pointed as Gabriel insists on the need to repair a bridge linking the town with another town. But the armed group that controls the area is opposed because it knows that as soon as the bridge is built, the army will come in, and fighting will break out.

In effect, once the bridge is repaired, thanks to the efforts of the priest and the community, the army arrives, asserts its authority, asks barbed questions, issues threats and warnings, and finally leaves.

Read more comments on the movie at IPS News.

COLOMBIA: Would you take the risk? video

WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO, it's worth it!!!
Would you take the risk to travel to Colombia? Have you been informed certainly? Watch this video till the end and know what Colombia means...

COLOMBIA IS PASSION!!!! BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, BRIGHT CULTURE AND AMAZING LANDSCAPES.






And search for more videos of Colombia in Youtube.