Overview
Spanish is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world’s second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese. Spanish has at least 3 million native speakers in each of 44 countries, making it the fourth most widely spoken language behind English (112 countries), French (60), and Arabic (57). Antarctica and Australia are the only continents without a large Spanish-speaking population.
Course description
This course is designed as an introductory course for absolute beginners, and as such, will establish a strong foundation and promote future success in Spanish learning for years of study to come. The instructor will provide practice on all the lexical and grammatical items introduced in the first two-thirds of the textbook and workbook. The detailed practice and accompanying drills will strongly develop the four essential skills of learning Spanish: understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. This course features some interesting on line activities, both in listening as well as in reading and writing. It will be fun mixed in with some work.
Benefits of learning Spanish
- Learning Spanish makes you more employable
- One of the best languages to learn for travel
- Improve intelligence
- You’ll become a better person
- A world of art, literature, and beauty will open up to you
- Get a better handle on pop culture
Learning outcomes
- Students will have gained a deeper knowledge and understanding of the cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. They will be more acquainted with the places where Spanish is spoken, will have explored some of the main cultural, social, and historical events of the Hispanic world, and will have increased their awareness of the U.S. Hispanic/Latino communities.
- Students will be able to acquire new information and reinforce their knowledge of other disciplines through the Spanish language.
- Students will have developed new insights into the nature of language and culture that will allow them to establish comparisons not only between languages but also between the Hispanic cultures and their own.
- Students will be able to use the Spanish language to participate in Hispanic communities at home and around the world.
Target Audience-
People who want to learn a new language
Course Features
- Lectures 4
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 4 days
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes