Ayuntamiento

Town Hall and Bell Tower

 

Puertas de la ciudad

Gates of the Town

Iglesia de Santa Maria de Oliveira

Church of St. Mary of Oliveira

Movilidad 1

Conclusions of mobility 1

Getting started in..

Getting started in … Galician

Spanish is the main language spoken in Spain and it is official in all its territory. But, as you may know, three other languages are spoken in our country, too. They are Galician, Catalan and Basque. The former two derive from Latin; the latter doesn’t. That is why you won’t have many problems in understanding lots of words in Galician and Catalan if you can speak Spanish.

Galician is spoken in Galicia, the northwestern part of Spain, and it is co-official there.  If you want to find more information about it, please click on this link.

Today we would like to let you have a taste of it. Some of the art students of IES O Ribeiro worked on a project for which they tried to express abstract concepts in works combining images and words. Do they match each other well? What do you think?

 Please, look at the chart below and compare the words in the four languages.

Galician	Spanish	English	Irish
CARIÑO	CARIÑO	AFFECTION	GEAN
COIDADO	CUIDADO	CARE	AIRE
EMPATÍA	EMPATÍA	EMPATHY	DÁIMH
ENTREGA	ENTREGA	DEDICATION	DÍOGRAIS
ESPERANZA	ESPERANZA	HOPE	DÓCHAS
IGUALDADE	IGUALDAD	EQUALITY	COMHIONANNAS
LIBERDADE	LIBERTAD	FREEDOM	SAOIRSE
PAZ	PAZ	PEACE	SÍOCHÁIN
SERENIDADE	SERENIDADE	CALMNESS, PEACE OF MIND	SOCRACHT, SÁIMHE
XENEROSIDADE	GENEROSIDAD	GENEROSITY	GNAÍÚLACHT

But sometimes Galician words are quite different from Spanish words?

A CHALLENGE: join the words in the two columns correctly!

                         Galician                                                                 English

                    BOLBORETA           -                                  -           AFFECTION   

                    AGARIMO                -                                 -           HOMESICKNESS

                    MORRIÑA                -                                  -           FIREFLY

                    VAGALUME             -                                  -          OWL

                    MOUCHO                  -                                 -          BUTTERFLY

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day from all of us ! 
Hope you have a nice day!
C.U. soon

Video villas medievales

Getting on with the work.

Every Monday afternoon we get together from around 15:15 until 16:00 and get familiar with different aspects of our project.