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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Spanish Vocabulary: Meeting People by University of California, Davis

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About the Course

¡Hola! ¿Como Estas? In this entry level course, you will take the first step toward exploring the foundations of Spanish grammar and pronunciation, and will begin to build a working vocabulary of common Spanish words and expressions. You will be able to talk about yourself, your family and friends in the present tense, and begin to explore the cultural context of the Spanish-speaking world through a series of videos and interactive activities, including speaking, reading and writing exercises. The adventure begins here, so ¡vámanos!...

Top reviews

GT

Dec 29, 2020

This course is very interacting! Though they only give brief lessons, what I like about it the most are the activities it offers for you to brush up your skills more. Definitely a good recommendation!

MP

Nov 9, 2018

Although it took me a while to warm to the idea of doing peer review exercises, and having to video record and upload work, actually I think this is an important part of the course and really useful.

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By Edwina D

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Jul 13, 2021

This course is not for beginners, I had to do this course twice to understand the basics and also had to refer to google spanish translations. Also was not very comfortable recording videos for peer reviews. Would have preferred if some qualified person had reviewed my work instead as peer reviews are done by students who themselves are in the process of learning.

By Mohammad B

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Mar 14, 2022

1) learning modules are meant for illeritarte mexican kids, not for non-hispanic learner of the language.

2) add a table of refrnece, so I dont have to pause videos

3) text-questons have a bug, i just copy the question and get it right.

By Michael R

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Oct 14, 2020

I understand that this was an introduction course to the Spanish language but I don't feel that the exercise's really assisted in learning the language.

I don't think I would recommend this course to others.

By Sanlı A Ö P

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Jun 18, 2021

For completing the course you have to record yourself and upload it online so other people can see you and evaluate you. I do not feel comfortable doing so, therefore I unenroll.

By SEMANUR A

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Sep 29, 2020

You should include how students can learn vocabularies more. Therefore, you make a platform which enables us to memorizes the vocabularies.

By Julia S F

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Nov 22, 2020

Useful information but difficult format; impossible to complete course due to technical glitches. Very frustrating.

By Anshu M

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Jul 20, 2020

it is very confusing. Instructions are in spanish and its hard to understand without english translations

By Susie S

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Mar 17, 2019

I am finding the material a bit confusing... I do not' know why they have to make learning so difficult.

By Qin W

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Aug 19, 2018

No tutor is available.

Discussion form is dead.

You can ask question but you will never get the answer.

By Areo B

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Jul 30, 2020

It is not really suitable for beginners. The course speaker and course videos are fast paced.

By Archideb S

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Jul 10, 2020

Questions and the Practice Tests were much more difficult than what was being taught.

By Julia M

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Feb 28, 2022

as a beginner too complicated. I had a very hard time to do the exams and writings

By Divya S

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Apr 23, 2020

Quite difficult. Some of the exercises don't have proper explanations.

By Muhammad h

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May 3, 2022

weak course, in quizes there are a lot of unstudied words

By Stanislav T

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Jul 8, 2023

Not for beginners! Bad no-systematic program!

By Aishwarya K

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Mar 16, 2021

A little too hard for a beginner to follow.

By Emilia Y O

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Feb 18, 2021

Sorry, Ii is far from what I was expecting.

By Antoinette N G

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May 7, 2022

This course is not for beginners

By Tanya R

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Nov 23, 2020

Difficult for beginners

By shriyansi

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Jun 8, 2020

As someone who speaks Spanish but doesn't have anyone to practice with, I figured I'd give this course a go as a refresher. For me, this course was okay - I already had the necessary background. However, for a beginner, this course is just bewildering - the tests involve an extensive vocabulary in Spanish, which is never covered in the modules preceding them.

I understand that designing language courses is hard, especially those that are completely online. However, these mistakes are rather basic, I think. Don't use words in tests that you haven't explained before. It's that simple. Don't test me on grammar rules that you haven't bothered to cover.

These are the sort of courses that turn people off from learning new languages. Please, revise the course if your intention is to give people access to a new language.

By Evangeline-Rhea W S Y

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Nov 16, 2020

had expected it to be similar to other Coursera language courses I've taken where you start by learning the ABCs and they teach you pronunciation and make you practice enunciation at the same time. This course deep dives into using Spanish without any consideration for people who do not have any knowledge of the language and have enrolled thinking that they can learn the basics. Had to go elsewhere to pick up the basics on my own before coming back here to attempt the quizzes. Thus I do not really see the point of my enrolling in this course.

By Sandra J N

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Dec 27, 2023

Poorly done. This course absolutely does not teach beginners. It tests you on concepts it has never taught and does not lay out a step-by-step guide for learning the content. It is as if they built a course and never sent a beginner through it to see if it was possible to be successful. Additionally, they should make the slides downloadable so you can study the concepts better after you finish the video. This program could learn from University of Illinois excellent content, production, and learning paths.

By Katerina B

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Apr 4, 2021

Terribly outdated interface, useless intro videos, pages crash mid-task and all progress gets lost, weird approach to learning new vocabulary without offering any acquaintance with words that are being actively used in exercises, impossible to study without google translate, no option of hearing pronunciation of the words that are being offered for learning which results in memorizing those words incorrectly. Could pass for a free course but is ABSOLUTELY not worth any money, especially not $50 per week.

By Latoya B

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Oct 6, 2023

Not very helpful or teaching information. The assignments and quizzes are asking you to use words and conjugations that haven't been taught. They actually don't teach you anything. They show you something and then you have to google the rest. Example: It gives the verbos but no conjugations and if I have to google/youtube the conjugation of the verbs, what am I paying for this course for? I can learn them on my own in that way. It seems a waste and counterproductive.

By Michael R

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Jul 6, 2023

This course isn't designed very well. For example, the assignment require you to retype entire portions of text instead of simply answering the questions. In this manor, it become difficult to focus on the point of the lesson!

Instead of focusing on the answer a question can be marked incorrect for a multitude of reasons -the focus is lost.

This might be good for children- but it wastes a lot time. Focus is lost.