For people who have had formal Spanish educations

[literacola]

Hey everyone,

I am starting my first semester at UC Davis this fall, and I have placed into Spanish Composition I via the language placement test. I am wondering if anyone has taken a Spanish Composition course and can let me know what I should expect. I have only taken two semesters of Spanish at my Community College, and I am not sure I am prepared to take the course. Technically I should be taking two lower division Spanish courses, covering the imperfect, future, conditional, and present subjunctive in depth, but I have tested out of both of them. I just want to make sure I am not getting in over my head, so if anyone with experience in college level courses could help me out with more information on what to expect I would be very thankful.

Thanks

[poli]

You will know within the first days of the class if you are in over your head. If the class is all Spanish-speaking and all the students are Latinos, and the professor makes no concessions to English speakers, you may want to opt out early. because it will be hard to get a good grade.

If the class is conducted in English and Spanish,(and there are concessions made for English speakers) it can be of great help to you.

[CrOtALiTo]

I have the same problem, this week, I'm going to take a quiz in the school Harmoll hall, but also I'm not pretty sure if can to ready in the quiz, therefore I'm asking help with the language of course English, but to way oral, I mean, I need to improve my English with someone to way spook out in the school the teacher will applying me a quiz write and spook even although I know that have written during most to 1 year in English even I don't feeling me so sure of myself.

May someone help me with it.?

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

I have the same problem, this week, I'm going to take a quiz in the school Harmoll hall, but also I'm not pretty sure if can to ready in the quiz, therefore I'm asking help with the language of course English, but to way oral, I mean, I need to improve my English with someone to way spook out in the school the teacher will applying me a quiz write and spook even although I know that have written during most to 1 year in English even I don't feeling me so sure of myself.

May someone help me with it.?

We will all help you Good luck on the quiz

[CrOtALiTo]

Originally Posted by jchen

We will all help you Good luck on the quiz

Thank you very much.

[irmamar]

Good luck, Crotalito! And think than it's easier to say or write short sentences than longer ones.

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by literacola

Hey everyone,

I am starting my first semester at UC Davis this fall, and I have placed into Spanish Composition I via the language placement test. I am wondering if anyone has taken a Spanish Composition course and can let me know what I should expect. I have only taken two semesters of Spanish at my Community College, and I am not sure I am prepared to take the course. Technically I should be taking two lower division Spanish courses, covering the imperfect, future, conditional, and present subjunctive in depth, but I have tested out of both of them. I just want to make sure I am not getting in over my head, so if anyone with experience in college level courses could help me out with more information on what to expect I would be very thankful.

Thanks

Sign up for the composition class and another class. Go to both of them. After one or two class sessions you should easily be able to tell if you're in over your head and you can drop one of the classes the first week.

Aside from the two semesters of Spanish at community college, have you studied Spanish before? How were your two semesters? Did you enjoy it? Did you go out of your way to learn more than you were supposed to? Did you seek out people to practice with? In my opinion, the question of if it's going to be over your head or not has more to do with your will/desire/motivation to learn that it does with your current level of knowledge.