Beginners Spanish 2

Overview

Starting from simple tasks such as telling the time, you will progress unit by unit towards being able to hold longer conversations and to understand more language in different situations. You'll acquire knowledge of some more basic structures of Spanish, along with key vocabulary, such as telling the time and talking about likes and dislikes. This course also continues to build your awareness of the cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world.

After successfully completing this Beginners Spanish 2 course at The Open University UK, you will receive a digital badge. This can be shared on social media, added to email signatures or act as a certificate.

You will learn

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• communicate with speakers of Spanish in a limited range of predictable and simple contexts relating to everyday situations
• understand and use simple Spanish grammatical structures (for example, questions and statements), and common terms for everyday objects and events
• recognise and use basic Spanish phrases in formal and informal styles of communication and use polite forms of address and greetings
• show basic intercultural communicative competence, including an awareness of Spanish-speaking cultures and societies.

The course is designed to help you achieve a level of language proficiency equivalent to level A1 of the Council of Europe Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).