Spanish   

This course is designed for Heritage speaker of Spanish and other students from a Spanish-speaking background. Main goals of this class are developing basic skills in reading and writing in Spanish, basic grammar structures, conversation on familiar topics, vocabulary and developing a greater familiarity with U.S. Hispanic culture. This course is conducted entirely in Spanish

Main concepts that will be covered in Beginning Spanish Heritage Language:

• Ortografía: Signos de puntuación, interrogación, exclamación, etc.
• Cultura: Paises latinoamericanos
• Lectura: Diversas obras literarias
• Gramatica:

Las bases de una oración: Sujeto y Predicado

Los Pronombre Personales

La introducción a la conjugación: El tiempo presente

La conjugación: El presente Progresivo

El tiempo Pretérito

El Pretérito Imperfecto
 

This course is designed to promote effective and advanced reading, writing and oral communication.  Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to comment on what is necessary, possible, probable, and improbable.  Students will be able to express expectations & hopes, describe emotions, opinions, wishes, doubt, uncertainty and conjecture, (subjunctive). Students will also hypothesize a situation that is not part of the speaker’s present reality (conditional) and use the past perfect to refer to a past event, give formal orders, ask people to do something (formal commands), use possessive pronouns, and finally students will learn how to express unexpected occurrences or accidental events. The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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This course introduces students to a working knowledge of the Spanish language, cultural behaviors and values useful in various professional fields such as health care, law enforcement, bilingual education, business, and others.
Upon completing this course, you will be able to:

• Reproduce the pronunciation and intonation of the Spanish language;
• Understand basic oral statements, instructions, and questions;
• Apply learned vocabulary, phrases, and grammatical structures in simple conversations;
• Accurately use basic vocabulary and grammatical structures in simple writings such as forms and notes;
• Read and comprehend basic information;
• Demonstrate an awareness of appropriate cultural behaviors and values in common situations pertinent to the professional field

This course is designed to promote very intermediate writing and oral communication.  Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe past events in detail, discuss situations, celebrations, describe conditions, express ongoing actions in the past (imperfect progressive), explain how something is done (adverbs), and ranking people and things (ordinal numbers). The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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This course is designed to promote beginner writing and oral communication. Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to greet and introduce themselves to others, tell time, describe weather conditions, recognize cognates,  talk about personality/ physical traits, discuss what people do using the regular present tense of –ar, -er, & -ir verbs, to express how people are feeling, and how to express possession. The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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This course is designed to promote intermediate writing and oral communication.  Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to convey likes and dislikes, narrate an action in progress  (present progressive), describe plans and conveying what will happen in the future (Ir + a + infinitive), express opinions by talking about what they want or what they prefer (stem changing verbs), point out demonstrative adjectives, discuss to whom or for whom an action takes place, and to avoid repetition in speaking and writing (OD and ID pronouns), talk about events in the past (Preterite), talk about knowing people or knowing how to do things (Saber & Conocer), and talk about daily routines (reflexive verbs). The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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This course is designed to promote beginner writing and oral communication. Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to greet and introduce themselves to others, tell time, describe weather conditions, recognize cognates,  talk about personality/ physical traits, discuss what people do using the regular present tense of –ar, -er, & -ir verbs, to express how people are feeling, and how to express possession. The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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This course is designed to promote effective and advance reading, writing and oral communication.  Vocabulary in context, grammar, and cultural units will be covered. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to discuss possible actions in the present and future, to convey hypothetical or contrary to fact statements (Si clauses), to refer to completed actions or past actions that are relevance in the present (Pretérito perfecto del Subjuntivo), to discuss actions completed before others in the past (Pluscuamperfecto de Indicativo), to refer to actions or conditions that had taken place before another past occurrence (Pluscuamperfecto del Subjuntivo/pluperfect subjunctive), to express what will have happened at a certain point (Futuro perfecto), to express what would have occurred but did not (Condicional perfecto), to express unexpected occurrences, to relate impersonal information (se impersonal), and to emphasize size or express affection or ridicule (diminutives and augmentatives). The course also includes activities such as: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, writing and speaking.

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Are you preparing for an upcoming trip? Join this course to acquire fundamental Spanish vocabulary that will assist you in navigating everyday situations during your travels. You'll focus on essential phrases such as greetings, expressing emotions, asking for directions, making purchases, posing basic inquiries, discussing time, and handling currency. By the course's conclusion, you'll be equipped to engage in brief conversations and feel confident for your journey.