Spanish with Instituto Hemingway

1. Spanish for specific purposes: Spanish for tourism
Our friends at the publishing house Edinumen suggested an article about Spanish for
tourism which we have reprinted in this section.
The demand for Spanish for specific purposes has grown considerably during recent
years. Many people, professionals in particular, wish to approach specific areas of usage
of the language. At Instituto Hemingway, we offer specialized teaching for this aim
with special courses given by professors linked to these professional areas, like
Business Spanish and Spanish for tourism. In cities like Bilbao with strong commercial
activity and tourism the number of people wanting to improve there level of Spanish for
a specific professional purpose is increasing. Engineers, financiers, lawyers, hotel
workers, companies.. are some groups that wish to undertake courses in Spanish for
Business, Spanish for Finance or Spanish for Tourism. Spanish for tourism belongs to
the study of special language. These languages are defined pragmatically by the topic,
users and the communicative situations where the spoken language is used.
Here we enclose the article by Eloísa Nieto Callén published in Revista Frecuencia L,
no 31.