Why this course. Business Spanish is a 7-day course on the European Trainee Academy campus in Benalmádena, near Málaga, that drops your school group into the real fundamentals of business — entrepreneurship, marketing, and finance — entirely in Spanish. Your students learn how a business actually works while using Spanish to think, discuss, and present like a team running one. Built for students curious about business and heading toward internships, university, or a career in the Spanish-speaking world.
What it covers. A project-based week — your students work in teams toward a final “marketing agency” project, with each day’s lesson feeding the work. Mornings move through the building blocks of business in Spanish: a grammar refresher, then entrepreneurship (emprendimiento — what makes an entrepreneur, turning an idea into a business), marketing (the 4Ps, DAFO analysis, and the Matriz BCG, with real-company cases like Apple and TikTok), business finance (ingresos, gastos y beneficio, and knowing your customers), and how to use AI as a business assistant without letting it think for you. Afternoons are guided trips, beach time, and group activities; mid-week the group visits a local Spanish-speaking business, and an evening of economic strategy games turns the week’s thinking into a friendly team competition.
How it is run. Your school group — 15 to 32 students, ages 12 to 19 — travels with its own group leader. The course follows a set syllabus — no placement test; students stay together as one group. They sleep at the on-campus residence with full board, supervised by EUTA staff and your travelling leader. One leader place is free for every 15 students. The week closes Friday with teams pitching their final advertisement in Spanish, certificates, and a guided Málaga half-day; a free public-transport card covers local travel throughout.
What Students Will Gain
Real cultural immersion on the Costa del Sol
Daily life in a Spanish coastal town — markets, beaches, Andalusian rhythm — turns the programme into context rather than a side trip.
Travel confidence and independence
A week abroad with the group builds the social confidence and self-reliance a classroom can’t — first café orders in another language, first navigating a new town as a team.
Spanish fluency through immersion
Andalusian Spanish in its natural setting — classroom morning, lived afternoon — the most efficient route from intermediate to confident.
Real-world Spanish in context
Practice Spanish where it’s spoken — at the café, on the bus, in shops and at the beach — not in textbook dialogues.
Career-readiness skills
Negotiation, brief writing, pitching, and professional small-talk — the soft skills employers shortlist for, taught in context rather than abstract.
Spanish-business immersion via local visit
Mid-week visit to a Spanish-speaking business in Benalmádena — students step out of the classroom and into a real workplace where Spanish is the working language, not the lesson topic.
Example Schedule
Sunday
- Arrival & residence check-in; welcome evening with introduction to the course, staff, and campus.
Monday
- Welcome session — group warm-up and an intro to the week’s business theme.
- Spanish grammar review — grammar, reading & comprehension, verb tenses, and conditionals used across every unit.
- LUNCH
- La empresa y su entorno — what an entrepreneur is, the journey from idea to business, and what entrepreneurs need (attitude, relationships, organisation, creativity).
- “Your business idea” activity — teams design a simple business in Spanish (name, product or service, customer, how technology helps, why it works).
- Afternoon activity — guided campus and local orientation.
Tuesday
- Entrepreneur profiles — modern founders (Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Koum) and historical ones (Walker, Ford, Carnegie, Winfrey).
- Intro to marketing — the 4Ps (Producto, Precio, Plaza, Promoción) with the Apple case study.
- LUNCH
- “Arregla el marketing” mini-brief and a promotion-matching activity in teams.
- Group discussions in Spanish.
Wednesday
- DAFO analysis — fortalezas, debilidades, oportunidades, amenazas, with worked examples (Apple, TikTok).
- LUNCH
- Visit to a local Spanish-speaking business — a behind-the-scenes look at a professional environment in action (observation only).
- Reflection & vocabulary — back on campus, a relaxed debrief and capture of new business terms in Spanish.
Thursday
- Matriz BCG — estrellas, vacas lecheras, puntos de interrogación, perros, with a product-sorting activity.
- Finanzas empresariales — ingresos, gastos y beneficio, the financial model, and customers / market segmentation.
- LUNCH
- Project work — “marketing agency” teams start building their advertisement.
- Writing skills.
- Evening · Economic strategy games (economics-games.com) — a team competition applying the week’s business thinking, in Spanish.
Friday
- La IA como asistente de negocio — how AI can help and where it shouldn’t replace your thinking; do’s and don’ts.
- Project prep — teams finish their advertisement (slogan + visual) for a real brand.
- LUNCH
- Final group business presentations — teams pitch their advertisement to peers and leaders, in Spanish.
- Certificates & reflection — awards, feedback, and review of outcomes.
- Guided Málaga half-day excursion — afternoon trip to Málaga port, cathedral, and old town.
Saturday
- Departure — transfer back home.