Spanish for Business
Increasingly, successful managers need sound oral and written skills in foreign languages as well as a clear understanding of various cross cultural communication issues. This course is designed to help build your skills and confidence as a communicator in Spanish both in the course as well as in your career.
The course is designed to:
(1) introduce course participants to the world of Spanish as a second language;
(2) develop the skills of the course participant as a speaker in business Spanish contexts;
(3) develop the reading and listening comprehension skills of course participants for better communication with the Spanish speaking business community; (4) introduce participants to the Latin American business culture.
Topics covered include:-
- The Basics
- Spanish greetings
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- Time
- Identifying gender and number(Nouns)
- Definite and indefinite Articles
- The use of “AHAY”
- The Verb “AIR” - To Go
- Regular Verbs
- Possessive Adjectives
- Describing People and Objects
- Introduction to Spanish Listening Comprehension
- Listening Comprehension Practice
- Indicating location of people, place and objects
- ”SER” vs “ESTAR”
- The verb “GUSTAR” - Expressing likes and dislikes
- Interrogative Words
- The verbs “SABER” and “CONOCER”
- The Present Progressive Tense
- Describing daily routines
- Reflexive Verbs
- Making Future Plans
- ”IR”, “A” and Infinitive
- Future Tense
- The Preterit Tense
- Persuasive Writing
- Creation of Spanish Advertisements
- Spanish Business Culture
- Dress, body language, telephone manner etc.
- Letter and Memo Writing
- Interview Practices
- Practice of Spanish used in various business situations (Oral).