Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

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Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish provided by OpenLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 6 hours worth of material. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from OpenLearn. The course is taught in Englishand is Free Certificate. Visit the course page at OpenLearn for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Welcome to this free course, Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish, which is aimed at intermediate learners of Spanish with an interest in language and culture. The six-hour course is ...

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • Learning outcomes
    • 1 Introducing the course
    • 1 Introducing the course
    • 2 Predicting content
    • 2 Predicting content
    • 2.1 Listening to introductions
    • 2.2 Anticipating, listening out for and practising unfamiliar sounds
    • 3 Using knowledge of your own language
    • 3 Using knowledge of your own language
    • 3.1 Recognising cognates
    • 3.2. Pronouncing cognates
    • 4 Using cultural knowledge
    • 4 Using cultural knowledge
    • 4.1 Happiness and contentment
    • 4.2 Body language
    • 5 Using subtitles
    • 5 Using subtitles
    • 5.1 Interlingual subtitles
    • 5.2 Intralingual subtitles
    • 6 Coping with unfamiliar language
    • 6 Coping with unfamiliar language
    • 6.1 Recognising idiomatic language
    • 6.2 Using transcripts
    • 7 Deducing meaning
    • 7 Deducing meaning
    • 7.1 Understanding the gist
    • 7.2 Listening for detail
    • 7.3 Recognising native speaker techniques
    • Conclusion
    • Take the next step
    • Acknowledgements