More Spanish!

This meeting was in October....we also had in November, December and then in January 2010! Rob came to visit us, thanks! :)

We met in Peximent in Alsancak, again...

Spanish Language Cafe

In November 2009 in Peximet, Alsancak and we had that night Viviane Nathan as guest in Izmir (Uruguayan poet and writer) :)

February Spanish meeting

We had spanish language cafe in february in Papillon Cafe and was very nice! We chat a lot, practice and had a spanish guest also! Enjoy the pictures....

For more details check http://www.vivaele.com/

Vita NOUVA desteğiyle Bornova’da Dil Kafe devam ediyor

20 Aralık'da saat 1400'te İngilizce Dil Kafe devam edecek....

İletişim:
Burak Batur: burakbtr@hotmail.comTel: 343 04 03 http://www.sgckahve.com/bornova.htm

Robert Ledbury: robert.ledbury@ieu.edu.trTel: 488 82 26

The Language Café is restarting

After a long summer and a Şeker Bayram break The Language Café in Izmir is re-starting soon.

At Vita NOUVA in Bornova we hope to be starting again with English, German and French at 1400 on Saturday, 1st November 2008. For further information contact Burak Batur on 343 0403 or burakbtr@hotmail.com

For information about the Spanish Language Café in Alsancak contact Janine Suira on chicaharley15@hotmail.com or visit her website on the side bar.

Janine and friends at Papillon in Alsancak on 16th Octobr 2008

Vita NOUVA -summer and new baby

Congatulations to our host Hakan and his wife Yudum on the birth of their daughter, Beliz. What a lovely name. Burak will send a photo for the blog soon.

Our meeting on Saturday was multi-lingual. My daughter Kathryne spoke English and German with Cihangir, and a bit of Turkish, too. İlkay speaks excellent English and came along to speak Spanish. Janine, the facilitator of the Alsancak Spanish café, came along with İlkay and Zeynep (and her parents). Visit Janine's blog (click the link on the sidebar) for the photo and write-up in Spanish. Althouh some Turkish was spoken, there was a lot of discussion about how to learn a language.

As summer is here our last meeting at Vita NOUVA will be in a couple of weeks time. I'll let you know. A BIG THANK YOU to Hakan and Burak, and their staff, for looking after us so well.

The Language Café at the Spring Fair

On 7th May, 2008 a Language Café took place at the annual Spring Fair at Izmir University of Economics. Attendance was disappointing, as was the weather, and this may have been for a number of reasons including the poor weather, other interesting Spring Fair events, classes -and last year was a hard act to follow. However, there were some lovely moments and perhaps next year we can have a "blow up TLC baloons" competition with Başak and Evrim showing us how...

Margareth, our new Brazilian colleague had a chance to speak Portuguese. Thanks are due to Wayne for bringing his strange Brazilian instrumnst again, and to the Portuguese Consulate and colleagues for their support.

Thanks are also due to Tamer from Mehmet Efendi Coffees for providing free Turkish Coffee -and to the coffee girls for serving in the wind and rain.