This course will prepare you for your next trip to a Spanish speaking country or to have a basic conversation with your Hispanic friends. We will be learning the conversational basics of the language focusing mostly on your ability to listen and speak. There will be a lot of exercises encouraging interactions with other students designed to get you using the language in practical situations. Grammar and structural skills will be presented to help you to understand and communicate but we will not spend a lot of time drilling them. Each class will consist of a TPR story telling method where we focus on one basic story learning the vocabulary, sentence structures, and grammar necessary for telling it. We will then do exercises that teach you how to use Spanish in some everyday situations. Some of the topic areas that we will cover are: greetings, introductions, descriptions, directions, basic questions, shopping, ordering, and story telling.