Anonymous
December 2, 2020
Excellent online course and opportunity for practicing speaking and listening and reading.
Anonymous
November 25, 2020
The Basic Conversation class with Andres was extremely useful. Andres provided a forum for all students to participate and practice listening and speaking at our own levels about everyday topics and current events. He also set up exercises for us to participate in more rapid-fire production of sentences, using new vocabulary and responding to basic questions from one another. He is an excellent teacher.
Jennifer
October 21, 2020
Very challenging, but forced me to practice speaking Spanish.
Christie
September 23, 2020
A fun class I looked forward to every week. The key was that the other students and Nicolas, the instructor, were all engaged in the discussions and contributed. Under those conditions, I felt I improved my listening comprehension and speaking ability (even if I didn’t sound like it).
Anonymous
September 19, 2020
Much needed practice about interesting / current topics.
Maggie Moroff
September 10, 2020
I really like the way this course is set up -- with plenty of opportunity to speak and introduce new subjects for vocabulary.
Anonymous
August 26, 2020
Basic Conversation is a great way to start your conversation journey. The class is structured to have a lot of participation and to converse with your fellow students. You read articles of current events and speak about them in Spanish - it expands your vocabulary.
Adam Quinton
August 26, 2020
Really enjoyed this class. The mix of everyday conversation, the news discussion and then the theme made the class interesting and also introduced a wide range of vocabulary.
Anonymous
August 21, 2020
The class moved swiftly and everyone was given an opportunity to practice their speaking skills without feeling pressured to do so.
James
July 16, 2020
This class was exactly what I needed. I've taken levels 2-5 at the Berges Institute but what I had originally wanted was a conversation class. The topics for conversation are different every week. Everyone is pretty much in various levels of basic conversation. I've enrolled in Basic Conversation again in order to continue with my progress.
Kristen
June 25, 2020
Rolando is a great teacher and I enjoyed the course. Sometimes the topics are a little challenging (current events are a little intense right now). If we used part of the class to speak about more general topics (things we like to do, people we know, experiences we had) it would a little less intense and easier to speak since current events topics are very challenging in terms of vocabulary And I want to make sure I am using the Spanish I learned in Level 5.
Christopher Mullen
June 5, 2020
The class was fantastic. I wasn’t sure what to expect, given the stay-at-home situation, but it was just as engaging and interesting as an in-person class at Berges.
Darrin
May 4, 2020
The course was good! It was very small (3 people) so that took some adjusting initially but it went very well and the instructor (Edgardo) did a great job leading the class.
Peter Heilbroner
April 27, 2020
Very helpful and well run Spanish conversation class
Andreas K.
April 9, 2020
Course was fun! Andres was a great instructor, engaging, interesting topics, classmates were good contributors of conversation, nice people, great energy, Great overall experience!!
Vera Mehta
March 19, 2020
I think Nicolás did as good a job as he possibly could given the inherent limitations of trying to get any sort of meaningful discussion going with everyone getting a chance to participate equally, in a 90- minute period of time. Perhaps limiting class size to no more than 5 people per group would help, provided there are enough classrooms where each group could meet. Perhaps, even meet in places like cafés or parks when the weather gets warmer!
j
March 4, 2020
I prefer the classes with the textbooks.
Anonymous
March 4, 2020
This course really helped my listening comprehension
Anonymous
February 11, 2020
The content is interesting and Maria is nice. I wish we could learn more vocabulary.
Marios Koufaris
February 7, 2020
Great course. Really helped me improve my comprehension and speaking. I wasn't crazy about the articles that were suggested we read every week but often the discussion veered into other topics anyway, so it was fine. Since this was a small section with only three students, we were all able to speak a lot. Julia was an excellent instructor, as always.