This course, designed for beginning level Italian students, introduces conversation skills, vocabulary, and grammar that can be applied in the workplace or while traveling. Class is conducted in English and Italian. The focus remains on spoken Brazilian Portuguese and culture for the traveler, businessperson, or just the student taking the course for leisure. This course is designed for the beginning Spanish student and introduces novice level conversational skills for the traveler, the employed, and those who just want to learn the language. Topics include basic greetings, articles, verb usage, and basic sentence structure.
Class is conducted in English and Spanish.
Text is required and available at the college bookstore. This course is a continutation of Spanish 1A and is designed for those individuals who have had some exposure to Spanish and wish to build more conversational skills for the workplace and travel. This intermediate level course is designed to improve conversational skills through extensive oral practice and is conducted mostly in Spanish. Conversational practice and contextually related vocabulary are introduced in topics such as telephone usage, banking, and travel. Grammatical patterns and pronounciation refinement are also emphasized.