Spanish for Adults: Intermediate Conversational

Students continue expanding their Spanish language knowledge and conversational ability through stories, dialogues, role-playing, reading activities, and guided discussions.

The course reinforces past tense forms and compound tenses, allowing students to describe experiences, tell stories, and express ideas with greater clarity and confidence. Emphasis is placed on conversation, listening comprehension, and expressive communication, helping students become more comfortable participating in Spanish conversations.

This class also introduces more advanced grammar concepts, including compound tenses and the subjunctive mood, helping students express opinions, emotions, recommendations, and hypothetical situations more naturally.

To create a true immersion environment, students are expected to communicate primarily in Spanish during class, allowing them to strengthen fluency, comprehension, and confidence in real-life conversations.Students begin developing the vocabulary needed to understand and communicate simple sentences describing people, places, and daily situations. Emphasis is placed on listening comprehension and pronunciation while building confidence speaking Spanish in a supportive environment.

Classes follow a communicative approach, encouraging students to practice Spanish through interaction and meaningful activities from the very beginning.Students are introduced to direct and indirect object pronouns and begin exploring past tense structures, allowing them to describe events and tell simple stories in Spanish.

Classes maintain a strong communicative focus, encouraging students to use Spanish actively while developing greater fluency and comprehension.

• Material Fee: $30 payable to the instructor on the first day of class.

REFUNDS/TRANSFERS - A $15.00 processing fee applies for each activity session refunded. Refunds will be prorated. Refund/transfer requests must be emailed to the Community Classes & Camps office at community.classes@santamonica.gov. Refunds will be issued only if requested within one day after the first class meeting. Material fees are not discountable and are nonrefundable.

REFUNDS FOR DUPLICATE/MULTIPLE ENROLLMENTS resulting from multiple registration submissions (at one or more offices or via online registration) will be subject to a $15.00 processing fee for each activity session refunded.

CANCELLED CLASSES: Makeups will not be offered for classes missed by the student. Programs are subject to cancellation if minimum enrollment is not met.

All class dates, times, locations, and instructors are subject to change without notice.