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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!...

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Hola! Mi nombre es Allan. This basic course is very helpful. I have learned a lot of new vocabulary words at the same time learned how spanish grammar structure forms. Gracias UC Davis!

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Good content. Covers basics and helps to simplify grammar. A lot of self learning and practice videos available. The assignments with written and spoken Spanish as well. Highly recommend.

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By Izabella O

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Oct 6, 2022

I did not like sharing a video of myself to strangers judge, I think that evaluation should be changed

By Sheena E

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Mar 26, 2021

I was expecting more conversation and explanation during the course. More assistance basically.

By shubhashri a

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Jul 26, 2020

The course is not suitable for beginners.

By Tim J

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Apr 12, 2017

Eh, not great to be honest.

By Roya s

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Sep 5, 2018

this is not for beginers.

By sreenu v

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Nov 17, 2020

Good

By Joseph I

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Jul 21, 2023

If I didn't have a basic understanding of beginner-level Spanish before taking this class, I might not have finished the course.

By week 3 I just wanted it to end. There are valuable exercises, no doubt, but at a certain point when I'm doing what I was doing before taking the class (utilizing resources outside of it with no direction) it left me feeling more frustrated than gratified by completing it - and this is coming from someone who passed every quiz and assignment including the final with 100%. Also, for the final, why not just have students upload audio files rather than video files? In every discussion forum there are people dropping the class for various reasons but it was sad to see people getting all the way to the final in week 3 and wanting to drop the course because they didn't know how to upload a video, weren't allowed to use Youtube, etc. In other courses I've taken (music courses) we could upload audio files directly to coursera to share our final and get peer review, and people could even do that with a phone. Overall, this was definitely helpful but the way things were implemented feels a bit half-baked to me.

By Meryl C

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Sep 14, 2020

In my opinion, the course is not really for a beginner level. I have been studying Spanish for quite sometime, so I can easily answer the quizzes, etc. The major drawbacks for me include: the fast lectures which I don't think someone without a background knowledge of Spanish grammar and vocabulary can keep up, and the peer-graded review that is dependent on the 'learners' who also do not have yet the correct knowledge in grammar, diction and vocabulary. In this course, I submitted a video, a paper but a learner poorly graded my score, he just put 0- did not upload any video (even if I obviously have it), which is, for me, a little unfair. Anyway, I know my specific level of Spanish so I am just using this to review. Overall, it is just good for a review if you have a A2-B1 level of Spanish.

By Steven C

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Oct 28, 2022

Its not very intuitive and it doesnt show how to make the right conjugations for verbs which is the hardest part. It wont let me skip ahead to other chapters. I'm not looking for a grade. I want to practice spanish in a hurry and I dont have a lot of time to devote. I want to move on to chapter 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.