If you’re thinking about obtaining an official Spanish certificate, the Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE) is the best option. But before registering for the exam, it’s essential to know your level. At Río Spanish School - Malta, we’ve created a free online placement test to help you assess your Spanish proficiency and guide you in preparing for the DELE exam.

Are you thinking of certifying your Spanish skills? The DELE (Diplomas de Español como Lengua Extranjera) exams are internationally recognized qualifications that can boost your career, open doors to academic opportunities, or simply prove your Spanish proficiency. At Río Spanish School in Malta, we’re here to make sure you succeed—and we’re proud to say we have a 100% pass rate! Here’s why preparing with us is a great idea.

The use of the prepositions por and para can be tricky for ELE students. That’s why, at Río Spanish School, we’ve created a whole lesson unit dedicated to this topic. Furthermore, since these two prepositions are so commonly used, it’s natural that they appear in many idioms and sayings...

We are approaching the next significant date on the commercial calendar, Halloween, and in Río Spanish School we do not want to miss the opportunity to explain the traditions and customs associated with these dates in Spain to our students...

Barcelona, the vibrant Catalan city, is known for its impressive architecture, sunny beaches, and lively nightlife. However, it's also important to be aware of a problem that affects many residents and visitors: mobile phone theft. In this bustling metropolis, pickpockets -carteristas- lurk in crowded places, ready to take advantage of any lapse in attention...

Welcome to another exciting chapter in your journey to mastering the beautiful Spanish language! In today's blog post, we're diving into a fascinating linguistic phenomenon: false friends. These linguistic traps can bewilder even the most seasoned learners, but fear not! Río Spanish School is here to shed light on this quirky aspect of language learning.

At Río Spanish School, in addition to teaching grammar or vocabulary, we show our students how the real spoken Spanish sound. One of the most practical and used resources in Spanish is the use of diminutives. Its main and best-known function is dimensional, that is, to explain that something has a small size:

Many of our students have decided to study Spanish because they are in love -estar enamorado, or in slang, estar pillado- with a Spanish speaker, and since at Río Spanish School we always try to adapt to the needs of our students, we have designed a didactic unit on street talk in Spanish, which includes a lots of expressions about love. In this way, our students will sound more natural when talking about their relationships, especially if they are young.

As Lorenzo Rubio González explains in Religious Topics in Colloquial Spanish, the familiarity of Spaniards with religion leaves many foreigners dumbfounded. And it is that we Spaniards have grown up surrounded by the Catholic Christian culture and, as is natural, it has impregnated the language with hundreds of expressions that have crystallized in the collective imagination.

Many of my Spanish students end up moving to Spain and working in Spanish companies. For this reason, at Río Spanish School we have designed specific teaching materials for business. As an example of this, we want to share with all of you a series of expressions related to work that will be very useful to you.

There is a great debate on the issue facing those who defend the veracity of the stereotype, with those who defend themselves as Spaniards and punctual. What is clear is that the Spanish language has several expressions related to punctuality and our goal at Río Spanish School - Malta is for our students to know, understand and use them in their daily lives.

In every group of friends there is someone who is always late, and if there isn't in yours, then it's you. Someone said there are two types of people: those who are late and those who are unhappy. This is because the first are more optimistic and think that they will have time to arrive on time.

In Spain and in many other Hispanic countries, the Christmas celebrations don't finish o n 25th of December. We also celebrate, and it's the favorite of the children, The Epiphany, better known as The Three Wise Men Day, every 6th of January.

As a Spanish child born in the beginning of nineties and based on my experience, I can tell that Santa Klaus, or how we call him, Papá Noel, was a secondary actor in Christmas. Only my grandparents gave a little something to us on Christmas Day. Spanish children must wait till 6th of January, when the Three Wise Men come, to receive the presents.

April Fool’s Day isn’t a tradition in Spain, so we don’t celebrate it. But we have our special day for jokes and pranks, and it’s in the middle of the Christmas period: on 28th of December. In Spain, the equivalent of All fools‘ Day is Holy Innocents Day or “Día de los Santos Inocentes”.

The arrival of foreign words isn't a new fact in the History of the Languages, and it shouldn't be seen in a negative way. But the use of Anglicisms in the Spanish language that sometimes we observe could drive us to the loss of multiple pre-existing Spanish terms and consequently, affect our sense of identity in Spain. Why do we use Anglicisms?

The Spanish word aceite comes from the Hispanic Arab -azzáyt-, this from the Classic Arab -azzayt- and this from the Aramaic -zaytā-...

If you have been studying Spanish for a while, you might want to improve your vocabulary. Imagine that the word SÍ is from now on forbidden, how would you reply affirmatively instead? In this post, you will learn ten different ways to say yes in Spanish...

One of my aim as a Spanish teacher as a foreign language here in Malta, is to dispel certain stereotypes students may have about Spain, instead show a more realistic vision. One fun fact is that in Spain Ir de bares- having a drink at a bar is almost a national sport and that we Spaniards love to enjoy...