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SPANISH – INTERNATIONAL COURSE
The Language course teaches you through a series of lessons building towards advanced proficiency. As words build to phrases, sentences and dialogues, new vocabulary and sentence construction is integrated in a natural systematic progression.
This Language course, consists of six levels, from which you can select the one that’s most suited to your needs and capabilities.
Explanations are in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Nihongo (Japanese).
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AIMS & OBJECTIVES
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Level I
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Basic conversational vocabulary of some 500 words and the tenses.
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Level II
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Basic conversational vocabulary of an additional 500 words. On completion of Levels I and II the student has an active vocabulary of 1000 words and is capable of understanding everyday conversations and of making him self understood, using their tenses correctly.
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Level III
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Enlarges the active vocabulary by 1000 words and teaches the student to think in the language and to build self confidence. It also enables the student to relate to experiences and discuss a wide variety of topics, creating practical day to day situations, expressing themselves correctly, using idiomatic expressions to enable the student to express feelings of annoyance, pity, astonishment and surprise, confusion, fear, impatience, hope, joy and satisfaction and many more.
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Level IV
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The student’s vocabulary is extended by 900 words. This level also teaches you to speak at the same speed as the mother-tongue speaker. This is achieved by use of sound tracks from movies which cover a wide variety of subjects and topics such as politics, science, business, crime, education, geography, sport and psychology.
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Level V
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About 600 new words and expressions needed for conversations concerning business, medical terminology and technical matters.
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Level VI
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An additional 600 words and expressions needed to extend the business and technical expertise of the student.
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Topics covered in Levels V and VI include telecommunications, data processing, application of computers, air pollution, physics, diagnostic aids, surgery, sales planing, processing orders, handling a complaint, discrepancies in an invoice, an urgent shipment and Company organization etc.
Written and oral tests are provided at all levels.
Courses take between six and twelve months to complete when spending approximately ½ hour per day 5 days per week.
The Spanish course is available on
· Cassettes and Books,
· Audio CD and Books or
· CD-Rom.
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