Learn Spanish – Stages of Development in Learning Spanish

Posted on January 28th, 2010 in Learn Spanish, Study Spanish by warren

If you wonder where you are at in terms of your Spanish development, this blog will help you to understand.  Below are the descriptions used by Spanish teachers worldwide.  Take a look and decide where you are and where you would like to be. These descriptions are fairly academic but worth the time to look over.

Warren Hardy Spanish offers four levels of instruction designed to take you to a High Conversational Level.
This course will prepare you  to practice Spanish with native speakers, so you may develop Fluid speech.
By doing the coursework and practicing with native speakers, you will develop your skills through the
following stages. These guidelines are set by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.

FUNCTIONAL
-    You can manage straightforward social protocol.
-    You can communicate your needs and wants in short,
      often incomplete sentences in present time.    
-    Your vocabulary is limited to basic objects.
-    You have difficulty formulating questions.
HIGH FUNCTIONAL
-    You sometimes appear fluent with social protocol.
-    You can create short sentences with difficulty in present, past,
      and future time.
-    Your vocabulary is limited to basic information such as  time, numbers, months, home, directions    and immediate needs.
-    You still have difficulty formulating questions.
CONVERSATIONAL
-    You are fluent with social protocol.
-    You can handle predictable situations and personal needs in
     present, past, and future time.
-    Your conversation is reactive and there is a struggle to answer
    direct questions.
-    Your speech is filled with hesitancy and inaccuracies.
-     You can be understood in spite of frequent misunderstandings.
-    You are capable of asking a variety of questions to obtain
      information about basic needs.
-    You are able to self correct.
HIGH CONVERSATIONAL
-    You are fluid in straight-forward social situations.
-    You can discuss personal information, family relations, home,
      daily activities, interests, personal preferences, physical and
      social needs.
-    You usually communicate reactively responding to direct questions.
-    You are able to link ideas using the nine Spanish tenses.
-    Your speech contains pauses, reformations, and self corrections while searching for adequate     vocabulary     and appropriate
     language forms.
-    You are able to converse with ease and confidence when dealing with most routine tasks and social situations.
-    You are able to narrate and describe in all tenses using discourse of paragraph length.
-    You sometimes have hesitation going from tense to tense but you can self-correct.

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