Lake Tahoe Community College

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In this practical conversation class, you'll learn new vocabulary for travel and everyday situations in real-life scenarios as you converse with partners, small groups, and the entire class.

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Learn new vocabulary and put it to use for everyday scenarios. Share, tell, and get acquainted through interviews and discuss topics of interest. Different from the small group conversations offered in the SPA 156 course, this is a class of 20 to 25 students at the high beginning and low intermediate levels. This course is designed to assist students interested in expanding their Spanish conversational skills. Students will also acquire an appreciation for cultures of Spanish-speaking countries. Let's talk!

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Presenter: Linda Ward

Jump-start your Spanish and bypass the traditional approach to language fluency and have fun in this interactive course through humor and storytelling.  

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This small group conversation course introduces students to communication strategies used while building their oral proficiency skills. The course will include practice with structures and vocabulary presented in grammar courses. Students will develop the ability to understand and implement conversational Spanish through the use of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.

Level: SPA 156CC, CD, CE - Intermediate Levels   

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Grammatical structures and vocabulary at at the Beginning and High Beginning levels.

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Learn pronunciation skills that will help you be better understood and increase your ability to listen and understand. Practice the rhythm and feeling of the language to more authentically sound like a native Spanish speaker. Topics include mouth and tongue position, forming perfect vowel sounds, consonant changes and syllables, stress placement, intonation, importance of syllables to pronunciation, and transitioning of words. Practice time will be incorporated. New topics will be presented throughout the course. English will be used during this course.

Level: Low Beginning - Intermediate
        

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Problematic structures in the present tense: reflexive verbs, direct and indirect pronouns, uses of 'se'.

This small group conversation course introduces students to communication strategies used while building their oral proficiency skills. The course will include practice with structures and vocabulary presented in grammar courses. Students will develop the ability to understand and implement conversational Spanish through the use of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions.

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Levels:

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Learn pronunciation skills that will help you be better understood and increase your ability to listen and understand. Practice the rhythm and feeling of the language to more authentically sound like a native Spanish speaker. Topics include mouth and tongue position, forming perfect vowel sounds, consonant changes and syllables, stress placement, intonation, importance of syllables to pronunciation, and transitioning of words. Practice time will be incorporated. New topics will be presented throughout the course. English will be used during this course.

Level: High Intermediate - High Superior

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"Arráncame la Vida" (Tear This Heart Out) is an award-winning film from Mexico (2018), directed by Roberto Seider. Set in the 1930s in Puebla, Mexico, a young woman marries a much older, prominent politician and leader of the revolution. As his career continues, she encounters many difficulties in the relationship. The course will include discussions on the characters, relationships, customs of the day and cultural differences. High Intermediate through superior level students will learn new vocabulary and improve Spanish language skills and cultural understanding through viewing the film and class discussion.

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 Problematic structures: conjunctions, pronouns, preterit and imperfect, subjunctive.

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Students will review the present tense, stem changing and irregular verbs, and the present progressive tense.  

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Learn new vocabulary and put it to use in real-life scenarios. Share, tell, and get acquainted through interviews and discuss topics of interest. Converse with partners, small groups, and the entire class. This course is designed to assist students in continuing to acquire and expand on practical conversational skills in Spanish. Students will also acquire an appreciation for cultures of Spanish-speaking countries. This is a different course than the small group conversation offered in the SPA 156 courses. It is designed for students at the intermediate and high intermediate levels. Let's talk!  

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Explore a multitude of Spanish language and culture websites while building your language level with interactive computer-assisted language learning. Discover the latest grammar websites and phone apps you can use to explore Spanish-speaking countries and cultures.

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Tired of sounding like a real gringo? Learn the handy transition words and phrases that will help you sound more like a native speaker! Presented in Spanish with limited English.

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This course is a continuation of SPA 183A, Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish. This course is for the student who has knowledge of spoken Spanish at the intermediate level and is continuing to work on language skills to sound more like a native speaker. Transition words, traditional phrases, space fillers, clarification words and expressions will be reviewed and developed and new vocabulary and structures will be introduced to help students towards that end. The course is recommended for students who have had at least one year of college-level Spanish.

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This course will focus on the present tense and oral communication skills using "ser" and

"estar" for beginners, "ir a" "querer" "tener" and "tener que".  Presented in English and Spanish.

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This grammar series will focus on trouble areas of the Spanish language. Students will compare and contrast: Ser and Estar, Por and Para, Preterit and Imperfect, Pronouns, Bothersome Tidbits. A multitude of handouts will be provided.

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This mini-course focuses on Spanish and English subjunctive usage and structures that replace the subjunctive in informal speech. Areas to be covered include: subjunctive versus indicative tenses, nominal clauses, temporal and conditional clauses, relative clauses and independent clauses. Required text: Practice Makes Perfect: The Spanish Subjunctive Up Close by Dr. Eric Vogt, McGraw Hill ©2008, ISBN 978-0-07-149225-6.

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This mini-course focuses on the Spanish and English subjunctive mood usage, misuse of the subjunctive, and structures that mandate the subjunctive mood in Spanish at the advanced and high advanced levels. Presented in Spanish with limited English. Required text: Practice Makes Perfect: The Spanish Subjunctive Up Close, by Dr. Eric Vogt, McGraw Hill ©2008, ISBN 978-0-07-149225-6.

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This course incorporates Latin and international music and dance movements with an intense cardiovascular and muscular workout. Move to the rhythms of Latin music while improving your Spanish listening skills and vocabulary through this energizing course. Presented in both English and Spanish.

SPA 191BQ Special Topics: ISSI: Civil Art and Uncivi War: Spain

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From 1936-1939 Spain acted out a century of incompletely resolved tensions between "las dos Españas."  Though official hostilities ended in the spring of 1939, in many ways the war continued to be fought during the forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco, and new fronts still open up in Spanish politics and culture eighty years later.  What were the causes of the war?  Who were the combatants?  And, how was this brutal prelude to World War II represented by artists?  To answer those questions we will look at history, film archives, the poetry of Pablo Neruda, the plays of Rafael Alberti and Fernandoo Arrabal, and, of course, the painting of Picasso.

The Difficult Trip Interactive Conversation Course, SPA 199A, D, H:, Created by Henry Wilds
 Three general levels available - Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. You must register to attend this course.
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Take a trip to colonial Mexico without leaving Lake Tahoe! Travel through our plaza experiencing realistic travel-oriented situations while conversing with native Spanish speakers. Visit the bank, market, bus station, go through U. S. Customs, a restaurant, and much more. You'll soon be ready to travel anywhere your Spanish takes you! All levels are welcome - highly recommended for Low Beginning through Low Advanced.