- In-Person
- $580
At the Intermediate and Advanced level, you should be able to understand most common and non-technical speech in Spanish and be able to hold a fairly fluent conversation on a variety of topics.
Focus on improving your conversational fluency by acquiring more complex grammatical structures and sentence formation. Possible grammar topics, based on student needs, may include the advanced level verb tenses (conditional, future anterior, and introduction to subjunctive), or use of relative pronouns.
Increase your language spontaneity through interesting conversational exercises such as debates, presentations, cultural discussions, and small group work using Spanish articles, poetry, websites and more.
Daily schedule
In the mornings, focus on practical, true-to-life conversation practice in lively classes that blend instruction, feedback, small group and pair work.
On select afternoons, enjoy rich Spanish and Latin American cultural experiences, workshops, or virtual visits from Spanish-speaking guests who bring their unique culture and perspectives to your class.
Course outline
This is not a prescriptive list. Exact course outlines are determined by the instructor to best meet the needs of each class. It is meant to serve as a guideline and suggest what may be covered at this level. It is often necessary to repeat levels in order to become completely comfortable with the skills at each stage with a different teacher and style.
Communicative objectives
- describe people or things in the past
- talk about what one used to do
- tell what one must do
- make polite requests
Linguistic objectives:
- review of pretérito (use and formation)
- more irregular verbs in pretérito
- imperfect
- imperative
- conditional
- comparison of imperfecto and pretérito
How am I assessed?
This is a non-credit course without letter or numerical grades. You receive verbal feedback on your conversation and grammar skills from your instructor during class. Written homework is typically corrected in class. Some lesson modules may include quizzes.
Technology requirements
To participate, you’ll need access to:
- an email account
- a computer, laptop or tablet under five years old using Windows or macOS
- the latest version of a web browser (or previous major version release)
- a reliable internet connection
- a video camera and microphone.
Requisites
To register in this class, you should:
- have knowledge of the past tense
- be able to use reflexive verbs
Course format
This Institute is offered in-person at UBC Robson Square in downtown Vancouver.
Outside of class time, you can access other materials online at your own pace and rhythm. One business day before the course start date, we'll email you step-by-step instructions for accessing the online component of your course as well as information on how to find your classroom at UBC Robson Square. Please note you can log in to your course for up to three weeks after the course ends. You will not be able to access course materials after this time.