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If "una clase de español" means "a Spanish class" and "español / española" can also be an adjective, is "una clase española" also a valid/common phrase?
Can we say that "una clase de español" roughly means "a class about the Spanish language" and "una clase española" roughly means "a class taught in Spanish"?
Similarly, what about "un maestro de español" vs. "un maestro español"? Is it valid/common? Thanks!
While "Spanish lesson" and "Spanish teacher" are ambiguous in English (a lesson of Spanish language / a lesson of a Spanish sort // a teacher of Spanish language / a teacher of Spanish nationality), such ambiguity does not apply to Spanish.
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