Intermediate Spanish: The Worlds of Spanish

Sharpen your Spanish and interact with confidence

This four-week course will introduce you to the rich diversity of the Spanish language, contemporary cultures, and geographies. You’ll gain an overview of key linguistic aspects and be able to engage and use them confidently.

Drawing on the vocabulary and structures you learnt as a beginner, you’ll discover a variety of new ways to introduce yourself and how to share details about yourself and your cultural background. You’ll also discuss different formalities in the way you address people in Spanish, which will help you respond appropriately in different settings and scenarios.

You’ll find out how to express your personal wishes, ambitions, and expectations to others. From the very start, you’ll be able to put your new knowledge into practice by sharing and interacting with other learners.

Explore the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Spanish language

Through engaging and insightful videos, audios, articles, and activities, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of the diversity of Spanish and Latin American cultures, languages, and geographies.

You’ll discover the answers to questions like which countries have Spanish as their official language and what other co-official languages there are in those countries. You’ll also be able to express facts about yourself, such as what it’s like where you live.

Learn how to express family life and relationships

Through this course, you’ll explore aspects of modern-day families and relationships and learn ways to describe your own relationships. You’ll make use of vocabulary you already know while also learning new ways to describe your friends and family and express things you do on a regular basis.

This course is designed for those with a good basic knowledge of Spanish (fully at Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference), who would like to improve their competence in the language and deepen their understanding of different cultures.

• Spanish language in context: an introduction
• Welcome to the course
• Introductions, formal and informal
• Describing people
• Verbos y adverbios
• Summary of the week
• Cultural diversity
• Welcome to Week 2
• Cultura e identidad
• Identidades culturales en Latinoamérica
• Diversidad cultural en España
• Summary of the week
• Linguistic diversity
• Welcome to Week 3
• La historia del español
• Lenguas en contacto
• Spanglish
• Summary of the week
• Family stories
• Welcome to Week 4
• Lazos de familia
• Historias de familia
• Expresiones y emociones
• Summary of the week