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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

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Do you want to improve your language skills and communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish? This free course, Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around, concentrates on Spanish as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into Hispanic societies and cultures through authentic printed and audio materials. This OpenLearn course focuses on public spaces and how to get by in a Hispanic city.

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After studying this course, you should be able to:

describe places in Spanish
give and understand directions in Spanish
talk about urban transport in Spanish
navigate around a building in Spain.

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First Published: 10/08/2012

Updated: 02/11/2018

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Peter Arthur Bull 24 April 2026 10:25PM

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I enjoyed the course. I felt that it gave me more confidence in trying to get the gist of what was being said. I thought the listening exercises were the most challenging, but there is the opportunity to replay the dialogues many times and if you are really stuck there is a transcript to help.

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