Sunday, April 3, 2016

Toastmasters Clubs Speaking Spanish

After attending a French speaking group in Singapore I am looking for a Spanish speaking group. Spanish is in my opinion the most easy language to pick up if you speak English, and some French, Latin or Italian. I found a French and Spanish group on Meet up but my primary aim is to find or help start a Spanish speaking Toastmasters group in either London or Singapore.

So far I have found the following Spanish speaking clubs:

Spanish Speaking Clubs in the USA:
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Fiestas, Manhattan, NY, USA

San Francisco, California, USA

Union City, New Jersey
..........
There must be some Toastmasters Clubs in Spain and South America. I shall write to Toastmasters International to ask. At the moment they are very busy checking membership renewals for people who want to enter speaking contests worldwide.

If you have the time, need, and money, you can buy 7 manuals in Spanish. (If you start a club you are sent enough manuals to distribute to all members in a package free, so that you can hold your first meeting without delay - but my understanding is you need a minimum number of sign-ups.

Meanwhile, some handy words which I have gleaned from the websites of Spanish speaking clubs.

ENGLISH - SPANISH
and - y
anniversary - aniversario
celebration - celebratión
(the) ceremony - la ceremonia
club - un club / el club
clubs - los clubes
distrito - district
education - educación
first (of the month) primero
friends - amigos
governor - Gobernador
guests - invatados
holidays - fiestas
in English - en inglés
fluently - fluidamente
joint - conjunta
officer - funcionarios
morning - mañana
meetings - reuniones
member - miembro
new - nuevo
please - por favor
president - presidenta
public relations - relaciones publicas
secretary - secretary
Sergeant at Arms - Sargent de Armas
sincerely - sinceramente
theme - tema
without - sin
year - año

SPANISH - ENGLISH
amigos - friends
aniversario - anniversary
año - year
celebratión - celebration
conjunta - joint
distrito - district
Educación - education
en español - in Spanish
en inglés - in English
fiestas - holidays
fluidamente - fluently
funcionarios - officers
Gobernador - governor
invatados - guests
Julio - july
junio - june
la ceremonia - the ceremony
nuevo - new
mañana - morning
miembro - member
por favor - please
presidente/a - president m/f
Primero (first - eg of the month)
reunión - meeting
reuniones - meetings
Sargento de Armas - Sergeant at Arms
secretaria - secretary
sin - without
sinceramente - sincerely
tema - theme
un club - a club
y - and

Useful websites
https://tmespanol.wordpress.com
google translate

Angela Lansbury, travel writer, teacher, author, speaker.


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