I took Intermediate Spanish at J Sargeant Reynolds in Summer ’17. This fulfilled goal 10, foreign language competency. I decided to take this course at a community college because when I took the language placement exam my freshman year, I placed into a 300 level of Spanish and tried that, but I didn’t see myself being successful in that course, so I dropped it.

This course was almost completely online, but I had to drive to a testing center to take exams for the course. The goal of the course was to further develop understanding, writing, speaking, and comprehension of the Spanish language. I learned a lot more vocabulary in this class and became more confident when trying to comprehend sentences and paragraphs. In previous Spanish courses I took in high school, I just memorized things and forgot them after the semester.

This course had a lot of interactive activities that were different and more interesting than just doing assignments from a book. The professor was helpful and encouraged his students to reach out with any questions we had. The only part of this course I disliked was having to drive to the testing center every other week to take exams, I wish we could have just used lockdown browser.