Spanish Vocabulary: Careers and Social Events
University of California, Davis
In this course, you will continue to build upon the basics in the previous courses of the specialization and continue to learn conversational Spanish in three themed modules: talking about cafés and restaurants, talking about clothing and fashion, and talking about careers and professions.
About this Course
¡Hola! This fourth course will introduce new vocabularies in the areas of dining, fashion, professions and careers and will bring you ever closer to the 500 word threshold for beginning Spanish. The course will also introduce the subjunctive and the future tense so that you can begin to speak about future events, things they desire and pursuing professional goals. This is the final course before you will undertake a project that showcases your mastery of basic Spanish vocabulary and grammar.
What You'll Learn
- Make requests, suggestions, invitations, and refusals using the subjunctive mood
- Identify cognates in English and Spanish related to food and restaurants
- Generate commands in their proper form according to social context and grammatical correctness
- Talk about clothing and shopping for clothes using related vocabulary
- Choose using formal or informal address correctly when applying the subjunctive mood to expressions
- Compare and contrast between appropriate use of indicative verb tenses and the subjunctive mood
- Discuss careers, jobs, and employment using related vocabulary
- Identify cognates in Spanish and English related to careers and professions
- Practice using irregular verb stems for the future verb tense conjugations
- Generate polite requests using the conditional verb tense
Instructors
Dr. Robert Blake
Professor & Director