Introduction
Welcome
Welcome to Spanish II, Second Semester!
You now have one and a half years of Spanish behind you. ¡Felicitaciones! Spanish II, Second Semester continues to build upon what you have already learned.
Importan Words of Advice
It’s very important that you do all activities and exercises. A very common mistake is to skip the lesson and all, or part, of the exercises and activities, and go directly to the assignments to be turned in for a grade. Assignments done this way (without sufficiently completing lesson exercises and activities) are usually returned to the student as incomplete, returned needing parts re-done, or returned with very poor grades.
There is a reason for doing all of the exercises and activities in the lesson before attempting to do the assignments to be graded. These exercises and activities are how the material is learned, how you will learn Spanish. There is no way around it if you want to learn Spanish. You need lots of different kinds of practice with a language to learn it. You can’t cram a language; it takes time and practice.
Fortunately, this course has a wide variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing exercises to give you the best possible chance of learning Spanish. The video and audio portions are very important in making this a real-life language for you to use, experience, and grow with.
Language is communication, and communication requires time, practice, and effective strategies to learn how to do it. This course has very effective strategies for learning Spanish, and you will learn a great deal of Spanish from this course, but only if you do all of the exercises, activities, and follow the suggestions. If you skip the exercises and activities, and attempt to turn in the assignments without practice, you will do very poorly and possibly fail the course.
