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Spanish for Beginners Level I
with Gustavo Gómez Coello

Learn Spanish from a native speaker! Focus will be on the foundational concepts of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Your confidence will increase with more practice, and you'll soon be able to communicate in Spanish! No experience needed. No class 4/22.
Text: Easy Spanish Step-by-Step by Barbara Bregstein, ISBN 978-0071463386 (approximately $12).
Gustavo Gómez Coello is a native Spanish speaker and has been the Spanish teacher at Biddeford Middle School since 2019.
Intermediate French
with Gregory Downs

Let's pick up where we left off in this intermediate French course! Build your vocabulary by concentrating on a variety of subjects, such as society, the environment, travel, leisure and health. You'll have much more opportunity to use and improve your conversational skills with topics centered around today's world. No class 4/22.
Text: Berlitz French Picture Dictionary by Berlitz Publishing, ISBN 9781780044774 (approximately $10).
Gregory Downs holds a BA in French and minored in German at USM. With a strong passion for foreign language acquisition and linguistics, he loves sharing this knowledge.
Spanish for Beginners Level II
with Gustavo Gómez Coello

A continuation of Spanish for Beginners Level I. To succeed, you need to be comfortable using personal pronouns, gender, and numbers of nouns, adjectives, cardinal and ordinal numbers, and the conjugations of regular and irregular verbs in the present tense. The aim is to enhance your proficiency in everyday communication, focusing on both spoken and written Spanish.Prerequisite: Spanish for Beginners or equivalent. No class 4/24.
Text: Easy Spanish Step-by-Step by Barbara Bregstein, ISBN 978-0071463386 (approximately $12).
Gustavo Gómez Coello is a native Spanish speaker and has been the Spanish teacher at Biddeford Middle School since 2019.