This course will provide students with basic training in spoken and written Spanish, oral practice for various everyday situations and essential grammatical structures. It will also provide them a general introduction to the Spanish speaking countries, their society and their culture.

CILO-1: Know how to distinguish Spanish sounds and pronounce them in a way that other Spanish speakers will be able to understand. CILO-2: Have acquired a core active vocabulary of Spanish of around 100‐150 words. CILO-3: Have developed skills to make accurate predictions on the meaning of words and sentences through the context or their cognates in other languages known. CILO-4: Have developed basic intuitions on the Spanish morphology and syntax and learnt basic grammar patterns. CILO-5: Have learned how to produce and understand simple messages in Spanish and interactively communicate in certain social situations with a basic awareness of the pragmatic rules involved. CILO-6: Know how to write simple compositions in Spanish about themselves, their family and the world around them.