Online Class: Spanish for Travelers: A Beginner's Guide
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| | Course Cost: 6 Month Subscription Basic Course (no certificate) = $30.00 Course with Online Certificate* = $55.00 |
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 Course Description ¡Buen viaje! Enjoy 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.
Course Lessons |  | Lesson 1: IntroductionThis introduction describes the icons used and the guide that will explain the best way to utilize this course. | Lesson 2: Lesson 2: The Alphabet and Pronunciation GuideThe Spanish alphabet and audio to help with pronunciation. | Lesson 3: Lesson 3: Start Building Your Basic Travel VocabularyThis lesson gives information on basic language skills such as greetings, counting, and telling time. | Lesson 4: Lesson 4: Describing Routine Activities: Introduction to the Present TenseThis lesson describes how to use verbs in the present tense, personal pronouns, and negating verbs. | Lesson 5: Lesson 5: Irregular and Otherwise Tricky Verbs in the Present TenseThis lesson discusses irregular verbs in the present tense. | Lesson 6: Lesson 6: Improving Your Travel Vocabulary Part 1This lesson gives basic and common terms that you will use while traveling. | Lesson 7: Lesson 7: Improving Your Travel Vocabulary Part 2Additional basic phrases and words used while traveling. | Lesson 8: Lesson 8: Describing People, Places and ThingsThis lesson describes the most common nouns and adjectives | Lesson 9: Lesson 9: Talking About Your Tastes and Interests and Expressing OpinionsThis lesson explains how to express your likes and dislikes. | Lesson 10: Lesson 10: Asking QuestionsThis lesson describes how to ask and answer questions. | Lesson 11: Lesson 11: Talking About the PastThis lesson discusses regular and irregular verbs and their tenses. | Lesson 12: Lesson 12: Talking About The FutureThis lesson discusses future tenses of verbs. | Lesson 13: Lesson 13: Cognates and False Friends For TravelersSome words that sound the same in one language don't always mean the same in another. |
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- Certificate of Academic Excellence
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| | Additional Information | Course Title | : | Spanish for Travelers: A Beginner's Guide | | CEU Value | : | | | Course Number | : | 33891 | | Course Type | : | How To | | Course URL | : | | | Course Rating | : |  | | Instructor | : | | | Syllabus | : | | | Grading Policy | : | Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to successfully complete this course | | Assessment Method | : | Lesson assignments and review exams | | Duration | : | Continuous: Enroll anytime! | | Requirements | : | View Technical Requirements | | Course Fee | : | Basic Course: $30 | | | | |
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment.
This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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