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Prerequisites: ESL 011 with a grade of "C" or better or appropriate placement. Recommended Companion Courses: ESL 002, ESL 041, ESL 042, ESL 051, ESL 052 ESL 012 is a grammar based speaking class in an English-only Environment for the low intermediate ESL student. Students will further develop listening comprehension and will increase fluency, accuracy, and confidence in oral production. (Nontransferable, nondegree applicable)

Prerequisite: Spanish speaking fluency, native or near-native or 3 years of high school Spanish. The course is designed to develop in the student the four basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing with a constant comparison between Spanish and English usage. Emphasis will be on the indicative tenses: present, preterit, imperfect, and future. These skills will be explored through reading in the contemporary culture of Spain, Latin America, and the Spanish speaking communities in the United States - Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Sephardic. (CSU) (UC credit limited. See a counselor.)

A continuation of SPAN 100 with the main emphasis on the imperfect, preterit, and present perfect forms for both regular and irregular verbs. (CSU, UC)