Description:
5 Credits
This course is a beginning course in Spanish. We will be looking at Mexican Spanish and not European Spanish. They are similar but there are some distinct differences that we will look at later. If you speak Mexican Spanish you will be understood in Spain. You do not need any previous Spanish to take the course.
We will be covering the following material:
- Pronunciation of consonants and vowels in Spanish.
- Basic Spanish grammar.
- Common greetings and conversation starters.
- Vocabulary in Spanish.
- Present tense verbs and their usage (regular and irregular).
- Basic sentence structure in Spanish.
- Conversation starters.
It is my hope that when you have completed this course you will be able to get by in Spanish at a beginning level. The most difficult part is pronunciation, but we will work on that too.
For this course you will need a computer since a lot of the material is on line and you will need a workbook called “Practice Makes Perfect - Basic Spanish” by Dorothy Richmond and published by McGraw Hill. There will be 18 lessons and you should be ready to spend 5 hours a week on the course. I will also call you throughout the year so that I can listen to your pronunciation. Of course, you can always email me with questions and you can ask me to call you if you want to practice your pronunciation.
The main goal of this course is to give you the beginning ability to converse and get by with Spanish if you need to. We will not concentrate on grammar, but the emphasis will be on putting together sentences and speaking.
What past students have said about Spanish 10
I liked this course very much. I enjoy language in general and was glad to learn a bit of a new one.
I absolutely loved this course, it was so much fun learning about a different language.
The lessons and assignments were very easy to understand and also very clear.
I would absolutely would recommend this course to someone wanting to learn Spanish. I was very fortunate to have a great Spanish teacher.