Welcome to this free course, Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish, which is aimed at intermediate learners of Spanish with an interest in language and culture. The six-hour course is designed to develop your understanding of spoken Spanish through six video portraits of people living in Spain. It introduces you to naturally spoken language, and gives clear advice on how to use authentic video resources as a useful and enjoyable learning tool. Through completing various activities you will improve your active use of the language, and develop the confidence to access further audio-visual resources and take your Spanish studies to a higher level.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
develop strategies for understanding video resources in Spanish
understand Spanish spoken at natural speed
understand and give personal information in Spanish
use knowledge of other languages and cultures to decode what is heard in Spanish.
Just finished this tremendous course combining intermediate Spanish with fascinating history of the country. Great structure to the course, excellent grammatical reminders of the imperfect amd perfect tenses in the context of describing historical aspects. Excellent small course for stretching your vocabulary will interesting descriptive words and words that you wouldn't normally come across but if you did visit an ancient Spanish city would be highly useful. Gives another dimension to your Spanish knowledge and gives confidence to express yourself.