Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Introduce themselves and request personal information from others on a variety of topics such as health, travel, and the family
- Greet others and appropriately handle social interactions
- Maintain a conversation with native speakers and use courtesy phrases
- Order a meal and shop for vegetables, fruits, clothes, and sweets
- Ask about, describe, and compare different things, people, objects, and scenes
- Use adjectives to easily talk about, describe, and compare past, present, and future situations
- Ask for services, give instructions, and provide directions
- Use language freely in order to deal with different social and cultural situations such as meals, funerals, weddings, and jokes
- Interact appropriately with others at a variety of locations such as the barber shop, hotel, border crossing, check point, and airport
- Narrate and describe specific life experiences, trips, and social occasions using present, past, future, and the imperative
- Participate actively in conversations in most informal and formal settings by using language and cultural expressions to make requests, express, describe, and compare preferences