Grading Policy

Students are expected to progress through a level of study within sixteen weeks. Knowledge and skills are assessed throughout the course to confirm progress. To…

Grading Scale

CRL Grade Letter Grade % From % To Grade Point Value E A+ 98 100 4.0E- A 94 97 4.0 VG+ A- 90 93 3.7VG…

Attendance

All students are required to attend class for a minimum of 24 hours per course. CR Languages requires a minimum of 75% class attendance. Attendance…

Student Portal and eLearning Components

All students will have an account on CR Languages’ Student Portal. The Student Portal serves as a collaboration platform for classes and also contains eLearning…

Technology for Online Formats

For the Online formats of this course, students will attend classes via our online video conferencing platform. Minimum technology requirements, instructions, and help on using…

Online and In-Person Formats

This course may be offered as an In-Person course or a Live Online course. In-Person offerings will take place at CR Languages’ offices in Boise,…

Instructional Methods

Lectures, reading, listening, watching and/or written assignments, quizzes and a final exam.

Prerequisites

Must have successfully completed the previous level or must have been placed into this level by taking CR Languages’ placement test.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Grammar – Use of vos and vosotros. Review of the verbs ser and llamarse. Use of ser as opposed to estar. Indefinite articles. Number of nouns. Possessive adjectives. Descriptive adjectives. Comparatives and superlatives. Use of…

Course Description

Spanish 1 is designed for students who have learnt the basic building blocks and vocabulary to have simple conversations in the present tense about yourself,…

Interjections

Often followed by exclamation marks, Interjections are words or phrases that express strong emotion or sudden reaction. While interjections are a part of speech, they are…

Articles

Articles are words placed in front of nouns to indicate if the noun is referring to something specific or general. There are two different types of…

Sentence structure

In general, from the grammar point of view, sentences are composed of two principal parts: the subject and the predicate. In simple terms, the subject is who or…

Conjunctions

Conjunctions are joining words. They are used when we want to join two words, concepts, phrases, clauses or even whole sentences together. There are four…