Course Syllabus

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Course Description

¡Buen viajeEnjoy your trip!  The Essential Spanish for Travelers: a Beginner’s Guide (with audio clips) is a fast, fun, and manageable way to learn the Spanish you need to travel around the Spanish-speaking world.  This course starts at the beginning assuming you know nothing about Spanish and takes you through, simple lesson by simple lesson, until you feel comfortable ordering food in Mexico, reserving a hotel room Costa Rica, asking for directions to the beach in southern Spain, and maybe even flirting in Argentina.

This course will teach you how to ask questions, understand the answers, talk about what you did yesterday and explain what you plan to do tomorrow. Along the way you will gain essential vocabulary and hear real conversations so you can travel con confianza (with confidence).  Throughout your journey to learning Essential Traveler’s Spanish, you will find explanations, examples and activities that provide the building blocks to construct a base for the Spanish language. Watch for the side text boxes that provide insiteful clues and hints to assist you in your learning process. Eventually you will be able to speak and understand one of the world’s most important languages.

This Essential Spanish for Travelers: A Beginning Guide (with audio clips) is designed to give you the basics in grammar and vocabulary but always focusing on travel so that you can communicate on your journeys as soon as possible. All activities, examples and vocabulary lists are geared towards traveler’s needs. But be forewarned: merely reading through the course as if it were a novel will not help you reach the levels that are possible if you truly take advantage of the tool you are reading right now.  In order to get the most out of this course, you must actively work with it, completing the exercises, working on the activities and having fun.

  • Completely Online
  • Self-Paced
  • 6 Months to Complete
  • 24/7 Availability
  • Start Anytime
  • PC & Mac Compatible
  • Android & iOS Friendly
  • Accredited CEUs
Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider
 

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Demonstrate reciting the Spanish alphabet and utilize pronunciation guide.
  • Build a traveling vocabulary.
  • Demonstrate describing routine activities.
  • Demonstrate usage of irregular and otherwise tricky verbs in the present tense.
  • Demonstrate describing people, places and things.
  • Demonstrate talking about your tastes and interests and expressing opinions.
  • Demonstrate asking questions.
  • Demonstrate talking about the past.
  • Demonstrate talking about the future.
  • Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
 
 

Assessment Guide

Assessment Points
Introductions 5 points
Activity A for Lesson 2 5 points
Lesson 2 Exam 9 points
Activity A for Lesson 3 5 points
Lesson 3 Exam 12 points
Activity A for Lesson 4 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 4 5 points
Activity C for Lesson 4 5 points
Lesson 4 Exam 9 points
Activity A for Lesson 5 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 5 5 points
Activity C for Lesson 5 5 points
Activity D for Lesson 5 5 points
Lesson 5 Exam 8 points
Activity A for Lesson 6 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 6 5 points
Activity A for Lesson 7 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 7 5 points
Lesson 7 Exam 9 points
Activity A for Lesson 8 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 8 5 points
Lesson 8 Exam 10 points
Activity A for Lesson 9 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 9 5 points
Lesson 9 Exam 8 points
Activity A for Lesson 10 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 10 5 points
Lesson 10 Exam 10 points
Activity A for Lesson 11 5 points
Activity B for Lesson 11 5 points
Activity C for Lesson 11 5 points
Lesson 11 Exam 10 points
Activity A for Lesson 12 5 points
Lesson 12 Exam 8 points