Learn to communicate in basic Spanish through fun, contextualized practice focusing on real-life scenarios and interactions.
This fun Spanish course helps you kickstart your conversational skills through real-life travel scenarios. You'll learn essential vocabulary and simple grammar while exploring situations you'd encounter on a trip to a Spanish-speaking country. It's all about understanding and responding in a friendly way.
Fun contextualized practice with a focus on understanding and responding to spoken Spanish.
Learning Spanish can be fun and engaging.
This course is intended to help you become conversational in basic Spanish. To become truly proficient in a second language requires years of practice, but this course is designed to give you an engaging, intuitive way to start communicating.
The course is designed around an imagined trip to a Spanish-speaking country. You begin at your destination airport, and are guided through various real-life scenarios that you would find yourself in if you were really in a Spanish-speaking country. These practical scenarios will be supplemented by clear and concise direct instruction in vocabulary and basic grammar. For those who are interested in more in-depth explanations of the grammar, there are supplementary videos linked throughout the course.
Throughout the course, you will learn to talk about the following things in Spanish:
• meeting people
• what you need and want
• making purchases
• what you like and don't like
• getting medical help
• restaurants and hotel accommodations
• travel and getting around
The length of completion varies based on how long you need to spend on each unit, and how often you go back to review things that you previously covered. Learning a language is not a race, so don't be afraid to take your time or to go back and review as necessary.
The course is designed to be self-directed, but the instructor will check messages at least weekly in order to answer questions or clarify concerns.
The course presents scenarios that you would encounter as a traveler, but most of what you learn could easily be transferred to other situations. For instance, there are many scenes in which you are a customer of some sort; you could just as easily view these scenes from the point of view of the seller, doctor, etc.
By the end of this course, you will be able to communicate on a basic level with Spanish speakers.
In this course, you will focus on seeing the big picture and on communicating basic ideas. The goal is to begin to communicate, not to sound flawless. That takes years of practice.
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I have spent seven years as a Spanish teacher, and all of that time has been in distance learning, meaning that I have considerable experience with using technology to create effective learning opportunities for my students. I have created courses not only for the students who are actually enrolled in my high school classes, but also for distribution through other...
I enjoyed the different teaching methods used throughout this course. They included listening, reading and role playing speaking skills. There are also a lot of short supplementary videos to further students learning and understanding of the lessons being taught. You will have to be prepared to write down vocabulary word lists, as they are not available as pdf's. But if you are serious about learning a language, this is a better way to learn the words anyhow. The course flows along nicely through the different scenarios and there is quite a lot of worthy material to learn.
I have never had a Spanish language course before. The characters are talking too fast for one to catch all the words being spoken.
very good
Thank you for making this course available. You did a great job of laying out the lessons in a logical order. And you have given us very practical lectures and practice sessions for anyone who is preparing to travel to a Spanish speaking country.
This course is thorough and created by a seasoned instructor. I worked with Mr. Nance for several years. He is a dedicated instructor and the material in this course is beneficial for anyone planning to travel or desiring to learn the basics of the Spanish language.
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Valerie M.
It's very helpful and very detailed