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Online Class: Spanish 101 - How to Speak Spanish (with audio)

Expand your communication skills and learn how to express yourself effectively in Spanish with:

-14 organized and easy-to-read lessons on Spanish language topics
-Each concept is illustrated with realistic exercises and examples from everyday life

-Numerous audio dialogues that will help develop listening and pronunciation skills

-Practice Activities, review quizzes, vocabulary boxes filled with terms and expressions, and much more…

Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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1.0 CEUs

Course Description

This Instructional Guide on How to Speak Spanish (includes audio) is a fast, fun, and manageable way to learn Spanish in your own time. This guide starts at the beginning assuming you know nothing about Spanish (but I promise you already do) and walks you through, simple lesson by simple lesson, until you come out speaking about your daily routines, what you did yesterday, last year or in 1999, and what you are going to do tomorrow or in the year 2020. Along the way, you will find explanations, examples and activities that give you the building blocks to construct a base for the Spanish language that will help you speak one of the world’s most important languages.

This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

Introduction - ¿Hola y bienvenido! We will begin with some expert tips on how to learn a foreign language. We will also go over the formatting of this course.
Unit 2- The Alphabet and Pronunciation Guide - In this unit we will cover the alphabet, the vowels, pronunciation rules, stress and accents, diphthongs, and tongue-twisters.
Unit 3- Start Building Your Vocabulary - In this unit we will learn words of greetings and introductions, leave-taking, days of the week, months of the year, counting 1 -- 199, and telling time.
Unit 4- Introduction to the Present Tense - In this unit we will learn verbs in the present tense, personal pronouns, verb conjugations, and negating verbs.
Unit 5- Irregular and Otherwise Tricky Verbs in the Present Tense - In this unit we will go over stem changing verbs, To be or to be? Ser vs. Estar, Haber -- another verb meaning to be, and reflexive Verbs.
Unit 6 - Improving Your Vocabulary - In this unit we will cover words for parts of the body, family & extended family, at home, common phrases, in a restaurant, counting 200 -- 1999, dialogue in a restaurant, and forming plurals.
Unit 7- Describing People, Places and Things - In this unit we will cover nouns and adjectives, list of adjectives to describe people, list of adjectives to describe places and things, colors, placement of adjectives, and possessive adjectives.
Unit 8- Talking About Your Tastes and Interests and Expressing Opinions - In this unit we will go over the verb gustar (to like) and other similar verbs, such as Parecer, a verbs that works like gustar.
Unit 9- Prepositions - In this unit we will focus on prepositions por vs. para, preposition used to describe location, and common prepositions in use.
Unit 10- Introduction to the Past Tense - In this unit we will cover the preterite tense: regular verbs, vocabulary the triggers the preterite tense, irregular verbs in the preterite, the imperfect tense, and irregular forms of the imperfect.
Unit 11- Asking Questions - In this unit we will learn Yes/no questions and question words.
Unit 12- Pronouns - In this unit we will learn about direct objects, indirect objects, and reflexive pronouns.
Unit 13- Introduction to the Future Tense - In this unit we will go over word endings to refer to the near future, future tense, and vocabulary that triggers future tense.
Bonus Unit: Cognates and False Friends - In this final unit we will go over the concepts of Cognates, and False Friends.

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Rich Kurtzman has been teaching Spanish for approximately 5 years at the university level. He received his Master's degree in Spanish Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he trained future Spanish teachers and conducted personal research on the acquisition of Spanish Language. He has been living and working in Barcelona for the past five years where he used to run a Spanish Language program for 250 students and where he continues to teach today.

Rachel Dziallo has her Master's degree in Spanish Language and Literature from Middlebury College. She spent two years living and studying in Madrid, Spain, as well as extensive professional travel to Spanish-speaking countries when working with a non-profit international education organization. Currently she is a freelance writer for Spanish language textbooks and works with the Latino community in Chicago, Illinois.

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