Spanish

Aventuras offers a student-friendly introduction to Spanish. It is designed to make learning the language both easier and more rewarding, thereby fostering successful language learners. It provides an interactive, communicative approach to enhance speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, enabling students to communicate confidently in real-life scenarios.

This fifteen-lesson program provides students with a thorough view of the Spanish-speaking world, plus additional options to further expand skill building. Its fresh, student-friendly approach, effective integration of video, and powerful online tools lead students to effective personalized communication.

Experiencias is a research-informed and articulated program designed for beginning learners. With a learner-centered and task-focused approach, and an emphasis on communication, this program embraces the diversity of student experiences. Discover this new edition, featuring contemporary content to build intercultural competence. Engage in a rewarding and relevant learning journey with a wide variety of activities and cutting-edge online tools.

Vistas, 7e contains interactive grammar and vocabulary practice, engaging media, and communicative tasks, introductory students gain confidence and cultural understanding. Delivering a fresh, student-friendly approach, the seventh edition makes students’ learning—and instructors’ teaching—easier and more successful.

Dicho y hecho, 11e is a research-based, class-tested, communicative introductory Spanish program.  The 11th edition has been fully updated and redesigned, making the teaching and learning experience more rewarding, current, and inclusive.

Portales 2.0 puts students first by providing valuable opportunities for them to practice and explore the target language. Our progression of content breaks down lessons into manageable portions and guides students through the active learning steps that are required to learn a new language. Using Portales 2.0, students build a strong foundation for language development, both in and out of class.

Aventuras focuses on culture and communication, with a reduced amount of vocabulary and grammar presented to students in each lesson. The new Fotonovela video brings context to the lesson themes, along with other integrated video segments throughout the program.

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.