Arcadia Spain

Right in time for the Spring ´16 semester, Arcadia Granada Center has moved to a new location, barely 3 minutes away walking from the old center. It is walking distance from the CLM (Centro de Lenguas Modernas) and it is now located on Granada´s busiest…

November sure came fast and is a month full of events: a scavenger hunt around town to portray the linguistic landscape of Barcelona, a practice session with the Castellers (human towers) and a stroll around Girona. For the 'Rags to Riches: The Transformation…

On Sunday, September 27, Catalonia celebrated a very important election. Although nominally its purpose was to choose the next president of the Catalan Parliament, Catalonia and the rest of the country have seen it as a referendum on independence. Unlike…

We are very excited to announce the brand new Arcadia Barcelona Center. After a very intense summer of designing, building, painting, moving stuff around and making all sorts of modifications, we are finally ready. The new center has given us the opportunity…

"The heat is on, the heat is on, yeah yeah, it's on the streets" sang Glen Frey in 1984. Well, that is very much how we felt this summer in Barcelona. This also shows how old the Program Director is. But now onto what really matters: it's been an intense…

Discussing Globalization in Barcelona with International Academics... I had the chance to attend The Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization conference, organized by the University of Hong Kong. The conference looked at…

New Home for the Barcelona Center The Arcadia Barcelona Center is proud to announce that we are moving to new headquarters this summer. The new space, located in the Eixample district of Barcelona (Gran Via with Bruc Street), in the heart of the city…

Just like you cannot live in Indiana and not hear about hoops, you cannot live or study in Barcelona and not hear about FC Barcelona (there is of course another team in the city, RCD Espanyol, however their winning record is not quite the same!). Barcelona…

From Chocolates to Champagne As we're slowly but surely heading towards the end of the semester, a lot is going on here in wintery (unfortunately!) Barcelona. Our students are planning their last trips, starting to miss Barcelona already though are still…