Foreign Language

[wildebeest]

Hi all. I'll be starting at UMPI in January, majoring in History & Political Science (history concentration). I have Spanish I covered, but I will have to take Spanish II. I took my last Spanish class twenty-three years ago, so this is the one course I'm legitimately concerned about doing well in.
 
Is Spanish II at UMPI doable for someone who remembers maybe 40% of his last Spanish class? Should I complete it on Study.com instead?

Thanks in advance.

[dfrecore]

Hi all. I'll be starting at UMPI in January, majoring in History & Political Science (history concentration). I have Spanish I covered, but I will have to take Spanish II. I took my last Spanish class twenty-three years ago, so this is the one course I'm legitimately concerned about doing well in.
 
Is Spanish II at UMPI doable for someone who remembers maybe 40% of his last Spanish class? Should I complete it on Study.com instead?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, you should do it on Study.com (or SL I suppose).  The Spanish class at UMPI was a nightmare last I heard.

[wildebeest]

Hi all. I'll be starting at UMPI in January, majoring in History & Political Science (history concentration). I have Spanish I covered, but I will have to take Spanish II. I took my last Spanish class twenty-three years ago, so this is the one course I'm legitimately concerned about doing well in.
 
Is Spanish II at UMPI doable for someone who remembers maybe 40% of his last Spanish class? Should I complete it on Study.com instead?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, you should do it on Study.com (or SL I suppose).  The Spanish class at UMPI was a nightmare last I heard.

Thanks. I had read that, but didn't know if it applied to Spanish I or II, or whether it had been fixed.

[LevelUP]

Thanks. I had read that, but didn't know if it applied to Spanish I or II, or whether it had been fixed.

That was Spanish II.

It is probably a good idea to take it at Study.com.  If you score 100% on the quizzes and say 80% on the assignments, then you only need 30% on the final to pass.

It may take 40hrs+ to do, so you need to start ASAP if you are going to make it before the next term.  You might need a Spanish tutor for a couple of hours to work on your pronunciation before you turn in your assignment.  Run your speech through a translator and see if it can translate back to English correctly.

[wildebeest]

Thanks. I had read that, but didn't know if it applied to Spanish I or II, or whether it had been fixed.

That was Spanish II.

It is probably a good idea to take it at Study.com.  If you score 100% on the quizzes and say 80% on the assignments, then you only need 30% on the final to pass.

It may take 40hrs+ to do, so you need to start ASAP if you are going to make it before the next term.  You might need a Spanish tutor for a couple of hours to work on your pronunciation before you turn in your assignment.  Run your speech through a translator and see if it can translate back to English correctly.

Thanks. That'll be my plan then.

[bjcheung77]

Those are viable options, I suggest that if you're close to a testing center, you may want to do the CLEP instead. This particular exam is available using the ModernStates.org voucher and should grant credit for both the Spanish I and II. I would use another resource in addition to what ModernStates.org provides, but it should save you energy, money, time as it's FREE and just one exam vs some quizzes/final, etc!

[LevelUP]

Those are viable options, I suggest that if you're close to a testing center, you may want to do the CLEP instead.  This particular exam is available using the ModernStates.org voucher and should grant credit for both the Spanish I and II.  I would use another resource in addition to what ModernStates.org provides, but it should save you energy, money, time as it's FREE and just one exam vs some quizzes/final, etc!

As I see, Level I Spanish is a score of 50 and Level II is 63.

OP already has Level I completed. 

The CLEP test is around 50% listening in Spanish, hard to do unless you have a basic level of fluency.  To score a 63, you could spend 200 hours studying and still fail to hit a 63 score.  You then have to wait 90 days to retake the test so all that work would be for nothing.

Those are the reasons why I wouldn't recommend CLEP.

[dfrecore]

Those are viable options, I suggest that if you're close to a testing center, you may want to do the CLEP instead.  This particular exam is available using the ModernStates.org voucher and should grant credit for both the Spanish I and II.  I would use another resource in addition to what ModernStates.org provides, but it should save you energy, money, time as it's FREE and just one exam vs some quizzes/final, etc!

The Spanish CLEP exam is supposed to be particularly difficult to pass, because the recorded portion you have to listen to is VERY difficult to hear (scratchy, bad quality audio).  Unless you are pretty fluent, I would not suggest it.

[TMcClary]

I was the one with the bad experience with UMPI's Spanish 2. BUT I will still suggest trying it IF you do not have some solid experience with Spanish instead of Study.com. I did take it at Study.com and did well, but I have a good amount of past (mostly unused in 20 years) experience with the language.

UMPI has to fix, or probably already has fixed, some of the issues I had. They weren't small "I don't like this class issues," they were big "This class is unfinished and broken issues." They did tell me they were actively fixing it. Now, I also did not like the instructor, but that was a personal issue and not part of the technical issues.

The UMPI class did look much easier than Study.com. It was hard to judge since the quizzes were all broken/blank and it crashed a lot, but if the technical issues are fixed I would recommend giving it a try. I am pretty sure they would still let you drop and take it at Study.com if it is broken.

[bjcheung77]

LOL, for some reason I thought the original user had 20 years experience with Spanish, logically, I would have gotten them to do the ACTFL, but the frugal part of me mentioned CLEP instead.