Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

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 designed to develop your understanding of spoken Spanish through six video portraits of people living in Spain. It introduces you to naturally spoken language, and gives clear advice on how to use authentic video resources as a useful and enjoyable learning tool. Through completing various activities you will improve your active use of the language, and develop the confidence to access further audio-visual resources and take your Spanish studies to a higher level.

• 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