Spanish

Portales 2 combines Vista Higher Learning’s proven Intermediate Spanish content, groundbreaking technology, and strong understanding of how today’s students learn. Whether you’re teaching a fully online, hybrid, or face-to-face Spanish course, Portales 2 is the right solution for effective and authentic language learning.

Pura vida is an innovative program that teaches cultural literacy with a unique approach, encouraging students to discover language and culture through the experiences of real people. This discovery method leads students to think critically and make their own cross-cultural comparisons while, at the same time giving them a strong foundation in Spanish so they can use it in their everyday lives as true global citizens.

Enfoques takes an interactive, communicative approach. It focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts to develop and consolidate students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Enfoques also stresses cultural competency, which plays an integral role in language learning.

Facetas is a one-semester version of Enfoques that takes an interactive, communicative approach. It focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts to develop and consolidate students’ speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Facetas also stresses cultural competency, which plays an integral role in language learning.

Experiencias Beginning Spanish is designed to give students a collection of rich cultural experiences of the Spanish-speaking world, from which they build their own multimodal cultural portfolio of engaging projects in the target language. Culture is the point of departure for all activities and cultural competence is cultivated.

A three-volume introductory program, ¡Adelante! makes learning Spanish easier and more rewarding so that students will be successful language learners. The write-in worktext model gives students an opportunity to develop their language skills in a unique way.

Enlaces is an intensive, one-semester intermediate Spanish program that features a fresh, magazine-like design with authentic short films and readings that weaves thematic, cultural, and grammatical concepts throughout each of its lessons.

¡Viva! is a concise program perfect for brief or intensive introductory Spanish, and prepares students to interact in real-life conversation by building listening and speaking skills. The new Escenas video brings context to the lesson themes, along with other integrated video segments throughout the program.