Spanish school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

An introduction to oral and written Spanish for students with little or no background in the language, this course encourages students to communicate with each other and the instructor in simple language using role-play and other interpersonal activities. Students read short pieces on modern Spanish culture and write compositions on subjects of personal interest. Grammar includes present and past tenses. (4 credits)

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:
Developing and improving your spoken language
Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers.
Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding.
Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
Focusing on langua...

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Conversational Spanish I
This program is designed for students who are already proficient in the skills taught in Levels 1-5 and who want to increase their conversational abilities. Conducted entirely in Spanish, this course provides students with an opportunity to markedly improve their speaking and listening skills. Magazines, video and audio tapes, and other resources designed to provide practical opportunities for vocabulary and skill development are selected to match student interests. G...

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Having completed Level 5, students can expect to be able to discuss comfortably a broad range of topics as well as to read and write multi-paragraph texts. This course helps students to tie together all the elements of grammar and usage covered up to this point. Students practice and refine their skills through oral and written exercises designed to reinforce the vocabulary and grammar already learned. More advanced grammatical topics are introduced in response to students�specific learning nee...

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Upon completion of this course, students can expect to converse with greater confidence and precision on a broad range of topics including nature and the environment, city life and daily chores, exercise and physical activity, professions and occupations. Building upon the skills already acquired, grammar topics include the subjunctive with expressions of emotion, disbelief and denial, the future tense, the present tenses, and nosotros commands. The cultural component comprises the countries of ...

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