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Enjoy an opportunity to speak and listen to Spanish in a comfortable, nonjudgmental atmosphere. This course is for those who already speak Spanish with some fluency and would like more chances to converse in the language. Each week, students will be provided with questions, readings and song lyrics to stimulate conversation on the week’s topic. This term includes careers, buildings, myths and more, but it’s OK to stray from the theme. Grammar and vocabulary questions that arise will be answered, but the class is about enjoying conversation in Spanish. Students should spend some time with the materials supplied before each class. During class, we’ll talk in a whole group and in breakout rooms with three or four.
NOTE: This is not a Spanish course per se, and it won’t work for beginners; it’s meant for those who have achieved enough fluency to listen to others, converse freely, and enjoy readings and songs that reflect Hispanic culture. Translations are provided for readings and song lyrics, but not discussion questions. Those who have been in previous Conversaciones courses will find new material.
You’ve studied Spanish for longer than you care to admit and have some basic vocabulary and understanding of mostly present-tense verbs. You can create very simple sentences. You can get around and converse hesitantly, asking only critical questions. Yet, you wish you were more comfortable, confident and fluent. Take this class! Here we’ll build stories together, one sentence at a time, with lots of interesting, comprehensible input, repetition and questions. We will speak in manageable chunks of language wherein students become part of the story. Students’ additions may enhance the story we create, one that each person will retell. We also write the story and read it. We emphasize high-frequency language. Active participation is required and absences are discouraged.
NOTE: New students as well as those from the Fall 2025 class are welcome. The format will be similar, but the stories are always new. Students should have a basic understanding (like Spanish 1 or 2) of elements of grammar, present-tense verbs, a bit of past tenses and vocabulary of common everyday situations. Strong intermediate or advanced students are encouraged to continue their studies elsewhere.
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