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Spanish Conversation Advanced Level 2 is the second of a series of three advanced conversation courses designed to help you continue refining the speaking and listening skills you've built over the years. In this relaxed, immersive environment, you'll strengthen your Spanish through conversation, interpretation, and thoughtful engagement with literature, culture, and film. We'll explore short subject films and work with reading passages in varied literary formats such as short stories, poems, and plays, supported by activities that build comprehension, foster discussion, and encourage analysis. A cultural component highlights Latin American literature, history, music, and current events. The class is conducted entirely in Spanish.

Continue building your Spanish language skills focusing in listening for understanding; fluency in speaking and pronunciation. Practice your current vocabulary and learn more terms related to tourism, running errands, daily routines, telling stories and more. Keep practicing real conversations and learning the history and characteristics of different regions in the Americas. Build confidence for interacting with Spanish native speakers and explore different Spanish-speaking countries, through their history, music, geography, culture, and current events. Learn from a native Spanish speaker who has over 15 years of experience teaching Spanish as a second language. This class is conducted in Spanish and is ideal for students who have a low intermediate or high beginner level and an interest in Latin American culture.

Prerequisite: 40 hours of Spanish instruction or equivalent. This course is part of a series of level 3 courses for each beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes. Review this self-assessment tool to see which Spanish Conversation class level you should be registering for.

Continue to enhance your Spanish speaking skills and feel more confident when communicating with native speakers. Build vocabulary for a wide variety of situations related to shopping for clothes, college activities and careers and health problems. Practice the subjunctive mode; speak and write using tenses such as the present perfect, past perfect, future, future perfect, and the conditional perfect. As always, we will include a cultural exploration of Latin American history, music, geography, and current events. Learn from a native speaker with over 15 years of experience teaching Spanish as a second language. This is an immersive class conducted in Spanish and ideal for intermediate students. Not sure if this is the class for you? Review this self-assessment tool to see which Spanish Conversation class level you should be registering for.

Review and build confidence in the essential grammar covered in our Spanish Conversation for Beginners series. We'll revisit key topics such as nouns and articles, adjectives, adverbs, present tense verbs, the present progressive, the future tense with ir a, pronouns, ser and estar, and por and para, with plenty of guided practice. This class is for students who have completed one, two or the three levels of Spanish Conversation for Beginners or for anyone already familiar with these topics and ready to solidify their foundation.

Review and deepen your understanding of the key grammar topics covered in our Conversation for Intermediate Level series. We'll work with the major structures that support confident, fluid communication: the imperfect and preterit tenses, the conditional, compound tenses, the subjunctive (present, imperfect, present perfect, and pluperfect), the imperative, and reflexive pronouns. Expect plenty of guided practice and opportunities to apply these forms in meaningful contexts. This class is for students who have completed one two or the three levels of Spanish Conversation for Intermediate Level or for anyone already familiar with these topics and ready to strengthen their command of intermediate Spanish.