9625 - Conversational Spanish
Course Overview
Improve your Spanish skills in this total immersion language adventure. It’s a great next step if you have a basic to intermediate understanding of grammar and sentence structure but lack speaking skills, vocabulary and confidence. You’ll expand your use of nouns, verbs and parts of speech through context learning . You’ll also complete a Spanish presentation on your choice of topic.
What You'll Learn
- Be confident greeting one another using basic greetings and farewells, expressions of courtesy.
- Express likes and dislikes, requests, restaurant ordering, descriptions and directions.
- Be comfortable making small talk, providing information about yourself, your family, personal belongings and other familiar topics
- Discuss travel, time, weather and leisure activities.
Who Should Attend
Students who have completed at least Spanish I and Spanish II and have intermediate or better Spanish language skills. This is not a beginner's class.
Students should be able to (based on Common European Framework Reference Language):
- Understand phases and highest frequency vocabulary
- Read simple text, understand advertisements, menus, timetables, simple everyday material
- Can handle short social exchanges, communicate simple and routine exchange of information on familiar topics and activities.
- Describe self, family, educational background and current/most recent job
- Write short, simple notes and messages, a short personal letter
Prerequisites
This is not a beginning level class. Taking Spanish I and II before enrolling in this class is strongly recommended.Enroll Now - Select a section to enroll in
UNM Tuition Remission
UNM Staff, Faculty, and Retirees: This course is Tuition Remission eligible under Professional Development. For more information, visit the UNM Tuition Remission information page. To see UNM HR's Tuition Remission for eligibility and tax liabilities, click here