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Advanced Conversation is an immersion course for the advanced student who is confident in his/her Spanish grammar knowledge and aims to improve oral and aural skills in the language through reading, debating, creating, and analyzing.

The course features individual presentations, discussions, and metalinguistic conversations in a ten-week setting that will dramatically improve your speaking and comprehension abilities.

Please note that, because we all learn at a different pace, 10 sessions at the Intermediate Conversation level may not be sufficient to reach an Advanced Conversation level. Students should consider re-enrolling on the Intermediate Conversation level to further improve fluency and proficiency before considering a higher conversational level. If you need help deciding, please request an oral assessment with us (it’s free!) and we’ll give you our insight.

Please also note that our instructors tend not to review grammar rules in conversation classes, as the most important thing is to keep the conversation flowing! If you want to review specific grammar topics, it’s best to take one of our regular L1-5 classes and/or private lessons :)

To take this level, you should have scored at least 24 points on our Online Placement Test and/or completed Intermediate Conversation at least once. For help deciding whether you are ready, schedule a free oral assessment.

How it works

1. Find a class that works for you and enroll. You can book more classes now or later.

2. Follow the instructions to join the video conference room on the day of your class.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Conversation practice

En la primera clase nos presentaremos y hablaremos, entre otras cosas, de nuestras vidas y nuestros objetivos.

Lesson 2: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 3: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 4: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 5: Conversation practice + optional presentations

Los alumnos que lo deseen harán en esta clase una presentación corta en español. Comentaremos las presentaciones y hablaremos te temas de actualidad y otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 6: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 7: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 8: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 9: Conversation practice

Como en cada clase de conversación, comentaremos el tema de la semana que recibirás en tu correo y algunos temas de actualidad, y hablaremos de otros temas aleatorios.

Lesson 10: Conversation practice + optional presentations

Los alumnos que lo deseen harán en esta clase una presentación corta en español. Comentaremos las presentaciones y hablaremos te temas de actualidad y otros temas aleatorios.

Reviews from our students

Nik Ritchie

5.0

2024-01-31

This is a super fun course for practicing real conversation. Every class session is different.

Barbara DeLaney-Smith

5.0

2024-01-17

The advanced classes are not only instructive, but the subjects under discussion are always very interesting, meaningful, and sometimes just plain fun. I look forward to each class and highly recommend these classes, and Berges Institute in general, as a way to learn and improve your Spanish while having an enjoyable experience. Five stars!

Steven Alonso

4.0

2024-01-17

Nicolas does a great job keeping the conversation interesting and at an appropriate level. The class has a good pace. We always have differing levels of proficiency and Nicolas is very good at keeping the learning and the interaction strong.

Meredith Nemirov

5.0

2023-10-31

I have enjoyed this class so much because of the enthusiasm of the teacher, Nicolás, and the interesting students. I appreciate the cultural aspect discussing music, literature, current events, movies, etc. all in Spanish! I would sign up for any class that Nicolás is teaching.

Steven Alonso

4.0

2023-06-06

This course is very helpful for me to practice my Spanish in conversations and review my vocabulary. Nicolas is very good at keeping the conversation going and creating interesting topics. There are many different accents which challenges me as a non-native speaker. I would give this class 4.5 stars.

Meredith Nemirov

5.0

2023-03-28

I loved this conversation class! We were a small group, first three then four, very diverse in age and background. We spoke about a wide range of topics, the climate crisis and the environment was one that we all shared and led to alot of lively conversations and introduction of new vocabulary words. We were given a great variety of homework assignments like listening and reading the lyrics of a popular salsa song, watching and discussing a movie in Spanish and listening to a blog that led to some great conversations. The instructor asked us to share our screen to show a text that we had written for homework, and we read it together and he corrected our mistakes, mostly having to do with preposition usage. I would definitely sign up again and recommend this class to other advanced conversation students.

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