Reviews for Advanced Conversation

This was a great class. The instructor was very skilled, helpful, and engaging. I liked the format of open dialogue on a number of different topics. The book was not the most exciting in the world, but it helped me learn a lot of new vocabulary. On the downside, I think Berges may need a better system for assigning people to their correct level for conversation. I also think that in conversation classes, instructors could do more to help folks with pronunciation, rather than only vocabulary and grammar.

I feel like I learned a lot and became more confident in my ability to speak spanish.

I love this course. The conversation was great. Nicholas always kept the dialogue moving. The other students were awesome

Nicholas is a great teacher. I generally enjoyed the course and will be signing up again; however, there were several people in the class that were not advanced Spanish speakers, which was frustrating. The benefit of the class for me was not the attendance but the preparation. My other complaint was the lack of structure in the course and the homework assignments were not reviewed during the class period, so there was no real reason to do them.

The advanced conversation course was better than expected. Nelson kept us on our toes and engaged.

I have one major complaint. I was interviewed and I signed up for a class in advanced Spanish. What I got wasn't remotely advanced. There were only 5 students in the class. Two of them I would describe as having beginning level Spanish, one as having intermediate level Spanish, and only one other students as have advanced Spanish. I have no complaints about the teacher, Nelson Naverete, who did a heroic job of keeping us together. In short, I barely improved my Spanish at all because the other students held me back.