[SPAN 0105]
Accelerated Basic Spanish

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Professor: Reyes Giardiello, G.

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Evaluation Comments for Reyes Giardiello, G.

  1. The professor is really good, and I felt my spanish was definately improving throughout the semester, but reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Miguel Littin is defiantely too hard for our level. I think I learned alot struggling through it, but sometimes it was just over my head. If you do your work, you can generally walk away with a good grade, espiecally if you are willing to go to office hours before you turn in compositions.
  2. Shes the bomb. I was always scared to speak spanish, and as much as she jokes about how we're going to have to behave when we get to "real spanish class," her class has taught me alot. Class is thoughtfully structured, and this semester when she says "en equipos de dos personas" people actually do the exercises, in pairs, in spanish!
  3. Gianinna was a really good professor, she had moments where she would get pissed at the class, because no one would speak at all, but they were well warranted. Overall, she was happy to talk about whatever we wanted to talk about, given it was in spanish.
  4. Gianinna is great, she's energetic and enthusiastic which really helped me work through the class. She was slightly disorganized and was always changing due dates which was frustrating but she made up for it. She was always available and would always answer emails to help. She broke down a lot of the Spanish rules and made them very accessible.
  5. La Profesora is a GREAT person! She's really funny, relates well to us, and always tells us to speak in our "sexy" voices. That being said, I don't really feel like I was ever taught anything in this class. We'd read out of the textbook and she'd show us some rules in a powerpoint, but other than that we didn't do much. The activities in the textbook aren't very good either and I found the photocopies Profesora brought to class to be much more useful. Also, we had to read a novel over the course of the semester that was beyond our reading level which was not an enjoyable experience for any of us. As for exams, I always felt like I did well, but then would get it back and it wasn't great. It was as if not enough was being asked on the exam so if you got a few things wrong, it really hurt.

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