Bienvenido a tu viaje de aprendizaje de español - Welcome to your Spanish learning journey
You can think of this site as a resource collection and project-based approach to learning the Spanish language. As a learner, you can use this site independently for online self-study. As an instructor, you can remix and adapt the resources for your classes. The site is designed around three projects that help you explore your linguistic identities, relationships between language and culture, community connections to Spanish, and lifelong strategies for language learning.
Read the world-readiness standards for learning languages from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) below. These standards provide a framework for beginning your Spanish learning journey based on cultural products, practices, perspectives, and community connections. The projects and resources of this site align with these standards and goal areas.
To read the standards, click ACTFL World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages
Guiding Questions for your reading and reflection:
What are some examples of cultural products, practices, and perspectives from your cultures and the cultures of others?
Hint: Cultural products are concrete or abstract things, like nouns, from cultures. Practices are things that people do within cultures, like verbs. Perspectives are often inferred ways of thinking or believing.
What connections can you see between the Spanish language and your local community, career, school, and/or global community?
Why do you think the ACTFL standards stress the importance of developing insight into the nature of language and culture to interact across cultures? What are you interested in learning about regarding language and culture? What are your motivations for learning Spanish?