Ready for Spanish CLEP?

[burbuja0512]

I totally agree that taking notes is important. There were several exercises where they would read a short paragraph and ask you one question about what you heard. For example, let's say it's a story about a reporter that goes to different countries, they may list off different topics about the reporter's stories and also a list of countries that he's traveled to. Even though I understood the paragraph, I would have had a hard time remembering without the notes.


I had a little bit of difficulty with the different accents in the listening parts. I lived in Mexico for 6 years and felt that very little Mexican Spanish was represented.

I think you should spend the weekend watching Televisa and then go take it. Go to a Spanish church service or an authentic Mexican restaurant and try to speak with your waiter too. I'm not sure that Spanish is one that a week or two of studying could possibly help, so you should probably just do it.

Of course, if you have the time and money, a couple weeks vacation in Mexico wouldn't hurt ;-)

Good luck!