Spanish Through Current Events

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Class Overview

Advance your real-life conversational Spanish skills using today’s news as your textbook! Intermediate-advanced level Spanish speakers, work on building vocabulary, understanding, and comprehension of both written and spoken language, as well as improving listening and speaking skills. 

While increasing vocabulary and fluency, review intermediate-advanced grammar concepts. Build real-life communication skills using current news and topics from newspapers, magazines, books, TV/radio shows, etc. This practice will help you communicate with native speakers more smoothly and naturally, in addition to learning about news and culture. 

Enjoy learning about current topics in Spanish-speaking countries as you increase your Spanish language confidence and conversational skills. Practice exchanging information and ideas on a wide range of real-life stories and news. Develop more advanced and complex sentence structures. In addition to learning to understand the more formal language used in printed materials, enjoy learning common phrases, expressions, and Idioms used by native speakers in daily life. 

Join this class to increase your Spanish language ability, cultural understanding, and connection to other Spanish students. 

Learning Objectives

  • Improve real-life communication skills using current news and topics from newspapers, magazines, books, TV/radio shows, etc.
  • Increase your Spanish conversational expressions and fluency as well as improve pronunciation
  • Develop more advanced and complex sentence structure
  • Be able to use native-like phrases, expressions and Idioms used by native speakers in daily life

 

Who Might Enjoy This Class?

Prerequisite: minimum of 4 quarters of Spanish or equivalent.

This class is for intermediate-advanced Spanish language students who want to improve their conversational skills.  

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Class Details

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Fall 2024

  • When : Wednesday, Oct 02 to Dec 04 ; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
  • Location : SC0BE , SC - BE - General Cls - BE4151 , 1701 Broadway Seattle WA 98022
  • Fee : $269

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