To design your study plan for your Spanish exam, you need to base it on an expert diagnosis of your level of Spanish. This determines the weaknesses you have to work on and then guides your practice. This post explains how that kind of level test is best done, and why you need it.
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Prepping for your OPIc DELE or SIELE Spanish exam, you need to understand how it is scored – what are the examiners looking for, and what are their assessment criteria? This video explains that and more.
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To best develop your conversational skill in Spanish, you need to adapt your learning to how the human brain acquires language
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Spanish history is part of the DELE exam curriculum because it helps you understand the situational meaning of words and expressions in their cultural and societal context
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Know how the DELE exam oral is scored. What are examiners looking for? The four assessment criteria: fluency, coherence, correctness & linguistic scope (vocabulary) illustrated and explained with real exam samples.
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The best DELE exam prep is expanding your lexis (vocabulary, cognate words, link phrases, collocations and expressions). This post shows you how to do it.
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Links to the best Spanish exam prep resources, to help you prepare for the DELE, SIELE or OPIc. These are the top free online sites for practice, model exams and expanding your lexis
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Mastering ser / estar and gender in Spanish is essential for scoring well under the correctness criterion of exams of Spanish such as the DELE, SIELE and OPI. We help you understand the logic behind the Spanish forms.
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A video tutorial of 10 minutes explaining the Spanish alphabet and numbering system, for beginner A1 level students
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For acing your Spanish oral exam (the American OPI or the DELE / SIELE) know the examiners’ four assessment criteria and do lots of expertly guided PRACTICE to show coherence, fluency, ample lexis plus accurate language use.
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