Spanish Proficiency Exercises

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About this app

Spanish Proficiency Exercises is a compilation of brief video clips in which native speakers of Spanish from various locations throughout Latin America and Spain demonstrate various language tasks. The objective of the exercises is to provide students of Spanish with the necessary tools to be able to talk about the same topics in Spanish. In order to do, this Spanish Proficiency Exercises contains five major components. First, there is a simplified video clip. This simplified version is scripted, the native speakers talks slower, and he or she uses simpler words and less slang. Second, there are video clips of native speakers who also perform the proficiency tasks. These clips are not scripted. What the native speakers say is what they really said. Some may talk fast, others talk slow, and some have specific regional dialects.

Third, to help perform the same task, we provide a Spanish/English glossary of vocabulary words that students may need in order to talk about the topic. Fourth, we also provide sample sentences that one may want to use in order to talk about the topic. Finally, we offer a brief, mini-grammar explanation on some grammar principle that is related to the proficiency topic. After reviewing the simplfied version, the vocabulary, the phrases, the grammar, and the video clips of the native speakers, we believe that students will be more prepared to perform the same proficiency tasks.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great app with an excellent and effective approach to learning Spanish. Please check lesson number 8, "Ask and give directions." Under the Phrases section, third paragraph from the bottom, you'll find the subjunctive of "estar"used incorrectly instead of the indicative. Nonetheless, it's an impressive app and the developers have done very well.

Very Nice! I was looking for advanced content and what they gave me matched what I was hoping to find. The speakers in the video speak clearly and there is a written transcript as well as teaching about grammar, vocabulary etc. I have only tried a few videos, but I think they are great. I found some unfamiliar words and for some of them a Spanish dictionary nearby was helpful. Great learning tool!

This is what I need! After years of classes, pimsluer, etc I am still learning. This nifty app has tons of examples to practice! It fills a big gap in courses that only present statements in one or two specific ways -which makes sense when you are a beginner but becomes unbareably monotonous later when you are actually trying to have conversations. Thank you! Oh and I live in Austin and went to UT so I also enjoy all the sentences that mention my home -what a pleasant surprise. :)