Spanish Conversations: Practical Dialogues

Students’ select eight conversational topics which become class discussions. Instructor provides vocabulary, idioms and special expressions, and students build dialogues in small groups. Cultural, historical and literary topics highlighted along with current news. Class is designed to be challenging, stimulating and unstructured as students master conversational strategies, build language competency, refine speaking abilities, improve listening comprehension, and build vocabulary (including idioms and slang). This course is meant to be taken after completing Spanish for Communication VI and at least one Refining Fluency in Spanish course or having the equivalent proficiency level.

Note: recommended prerequisite: "Spanish for Communication VI" and at least one "Refining Fluency in Spanish" course, or the equivalent. The Conversations in Spanish courses may be taken in any order, and can be repeated twice for credit. Elective for the Professional Certificate in Spanish Language.

Course Number: LASP-40012
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Spanish Language

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4/6/2019 - 6/8/2019

$295

In-class

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  138929

• CLASS TYPE:

  In-class, Traditional Classroom instruction

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Cahill, Catalina, A native Spanish speaker with over twenty years of language teaching experience in San Diego, Chile and Japan

  Catalina Cahill is originally from Chile. She has fourty years of Spanish language teaching experience at the university and college levels in San Diego, Chile and Japan, twenty-six of which have been at UC San Diego Extension.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  No textbook required.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No refunds after: 4/8/2019.
  Early Enrollment Discount: $270 ($295 if enrolled after 3/11/2019).
  1st no meeting date: 5/25/2019.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
4/6/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 140, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla
4/13/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 113, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
4/20/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
4/27/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
5/4/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
5/11/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
5/18/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
6/1/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
6/8/2019	Sat	9:30 a.m.	12:30 p.m.	Room 201, UCSD Extension University City Ctr, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego