ASLCx: AP® Spanish Language and Culture St. Margaret’s Episcopal School via edX Self-paced 10 weeks - 6-8 hrs/week AP® Spanish Language and Culture is a challenging course taught exclusively in Spanish that helps students to improve their proficiency across the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal and Presentational. This course is designed to help you prepare for the AP exam, and focuses on the integration of authentic resources including online print, audio, and audiovisual resources, as well as traditional print resources such as literature, essays, and magazine and newspaper articles. Students will communicate using advanced vocabulary and linguistic structures as they build proficiency in all modes of communication toward the advanced level. Class is conducted completely in Spanish and includes frequent writing and integration of skills with a review of grammatical structures, which are troublesome for second-language learners. Advanced organizational and analytical strategies are taught, and students will complete the course feeling better prepared to take the AP exam.
Learn Spanish: Basic Spanish for English Speakers Universitat Politècnica de València via edX Scheduled MOOC Workload: 64 hours This 16-week Spanish language course is aimed at students who would like to learn conversational Spanish starting with Spanish basics. The course introduces everyday language and includes activities to practice all four language skills: reading comprehension, writing, listening comprehension and speaking.
After completing this course, you will be prepared to introduce yourself, ask basic questions, and conduct a brief conversation in Spanish.
This course uses reference materials, cultural notes, grammar explanations, functions of language, etc. Students will be able to monitor their progress by taking a number of performance tests and a final achievement test.
What you'll learn
Basic conversational skills
The alphabet and numbers
How to describe your nationality, your likes, and your family
Spanish for Beginners By Universidad a Distancia de Madrid via iversity Scheduled MOOC Workload: 54 hours This is a dynamic, fun, interactive and practical course aimed at obtaining a communicative competence which allows the correct linguistic interaction required in different communicative situations.
BBC - Learn Spanish
Online lessons for beginners with audio, games, vocabulary, grammar explanations and exercises.
Busuu: Learn Spanish
This resource covers reading, writing, listening and speaking study options with a chance to practice in real-time with other language learners and native speakers.
Learners require some understanding of the language prior to starting.
Some features such as grammar lessons, videos & PDF files require paid premium membership.
Duolingo: Spanish for English speakers
Duolingo language programs teach vocabulary and build it into simple sentences through reading, writing, listening and speaking, with a ‘Tips’ section giving grammar explanations for each unit.
Foreign Services Institute: Spanish
FSI courses are developed by the United States government and offer high-quality materials geared for language fluency.
The website is basic and some of the material is dated, but the courses, designed for complete beginners, are of merit and and include many hours of audio, as well as several repetition and response drills.
The focus is on listening and speaking, and less so on reading and writing.
Livemocha: Learn Spanish
Livemocha’s lessons focus on reading, writing, listening and speaking skills separately. Material is broken down for the learner before being reassembled, allowing the student to apply what they’ve learned.
The website offers a social network type platform with chat options and friend suggestions and a community which is made up of teachers, language experts, other language learners, and native speakers who help each other learn through networking.
Some features require paid premium membership, but users can earn credit by ‘tutoring’ other learners.
Memrise Spanish Courses
Memrise offers courses created by its community and uses science-based learning techniques with"mems" - little snippets of imagination and humour that make things easy to remember.
The site uses gaming where learners can earn points, and compete against friends, and is good for learning and remembering new vocabulary. Users load their own own mems onto the site to help other learners.
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