The Spanish Language
(3 Credits)
Each weekday, you attend Spanish classes that best suit your skill level, learning to improve your conversational and written Spanish. Emphasis is on proper pronunciation and appropriate cultural tone. Students with more advanced skills focus on complex sentence structure and verb tenses, but regardless of your skill level, every student has the countries of Costa Rica and Panama as the backdrop for their studies! Whether you’re a total beginner or practically fluent, you’ll be amazed at how much better your Spanish becomes and just how much fun learning a language can be when you immerse yourself in the culture.
The program offers three levels of classes to choose from, with placement dependent upon previous Spanish-language experience as well as your own comfort level. CRLA instructors travel with ACA to Arenal and Manuel Antonio, ensuring the academic integrity of the program.
Elementary Spanish
Basic pronunciation, sentence structure, numbers, present-tense verb conjugation and the introduction of past tense.
Intermediate Spanish
This class picks up where the elementary class ends, covering more in-depth use of the past tense, along with the imperfect, future and conditional tenses as well as subjunctives.
Advanced Spanish
Ideal for students desiring greater proficiency in Spanish conversation as well as composition, this course uses contemporary-themed readings and discussions to take a student’s speaking and writing ability to the next level.