Learn Spanish and cook Mexican food

Immersive Spanish with Mexican Cooking series

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Prepare a selection of Mexican ceviches in Spanish and practise the perfect tense 

Monday 21 September in Rhyl Community Kitchen Kentish Town, NW5 3PJ

In this finger lickin' Spanish regular series for Spanish beginners and improvers you'll make Mexican ceviche in slow, immersive Spanish. 

The evening begins with a warm up Spanish class with our Spanish teacher to recognise key ingredients and utensils and introduce the grammar topic of the night for improvers. 

Our cook will then demonstrate the dish in slow Spanish repeated for comprehension. Complete beginners will follow along the key steps with bilingual handouts for beginner support and key words for improvers. You will then prepare your dish while improvers will be prompted to interact in Spanish and recognise the perfect tense (ie saying what you have completed).

The evening ends with enjoying the meal together over Spanish conversation with bilingual prompt cards for complete beginners. 

You’ll be with our resident Mexican cook Gil for cultural explanations and resident Spanish teacher Carla for grammar explanations. You’ll leave this relaxed social evening with a signature recipe and bundle of new words and phrases making this a one of a kind immersive Spanish lesson.

Level

Suitable for Spanish complete beginners and improvers with six months of study or travel speaking experiences (A2 level in the Common European Framework).

What to expect:

Dish: selection of Mexican ceviche with fish (tuna) ceviche, mushroom ceviche, and chickpea or lentil ceviche (vegetarian option)

Spanish

Understand and practise a range of Spanish interactions in the kitchen.

Practise and pick up words for ingredients, utensils and actions for preparing the dish.

Listening to stories and instructions from the cook. 

Practise a grammar topic: the present perfect tense. Extend the topic (for those with additional study) with direct object pronouns and irregular forms.

Fully immerse yourself and enjoy a cooking class.

Glimpse of the night:

6-6.30 warm up In groups of two or three you’ll have a hand at preparing the dish of the month. You’ll warm up the selected vocabulary and grammar topic along with the verbs with an activity and worksheet Eg ‘Pásame…’ (pass me) ‘Cortamos las cebollas’ (we chop the onions).  

6.30-8 pm You’ll get listening practice as Gil introduces the dish and shares a story along the way. Then you’ll get stuck into the preparation with interactions with the teacher and cook. 

8.15-9pm We’ll enjoy the food together over Spanish conversation with prompt cards before and recapping the key Spanish language used.  You’ll leave with more vivid Spanish and a new authentic Mexican recipe.

Tutors:

Gil Camargo,  Mexican cook

Gil Camargo is a Mexican journalist who worked in media from 2006 to 2023. He served as LGBTQ+ Editor from 2015 to 2017 and edited the Music section (2016–2023) and Film/TV section (2018–2023) for Time Out México. He finished his work with Time Out in 2023, where he also contributed food reviews.

He has a deep love for food, having learned to cook from his grandmother and his mother — an influence that shaped both his personal life and his work as a food reviewer.

Carla Jones, immersive Spanish Teacher

Cara Jones has been leading immersive Spanish clases for nine years. She lived for a year of her primary years in the Canary Islands where she gained a ove of languages. She has studying Spanish, Portuguese and Geography at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and qualified as a Spanish Teacher at the Institute of Education. She has taught in schools before setting up Stripey Spanish school.

She is deeply committed to building community around language learning and supporting people to build confidence and skill through enriching experiences.

“Learned so much, not only the language bit but also the cultural bit combined with the social experience! Your passion about Spanish teaching made my first Spanish learning experience an amazing one! Thanks a lot!”  - past student

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Cost: £70

One bursary assisted place is available on this class thanks to support by Rhyll Community Kitchen. This is for someone who otherwise would be prevented from participating. To apply email carla@stripeyspanish.com