Bringing Real Spanish to Life
Enter into a Spanish course that brings contemporary Spanish alive, focusing on active learning that addresses students’ motivation and needs for life-long language use and enjoyment.
Frecuencias is unique in incorporating extensive language samples taken directly from the world-wide spoken Spanish corpus of the Real Academia Española (RAE). These selections illustrate current lexical, grammatical, and communication usage, so that students accurately experience the socio-linguistic variety of the Spanish-speaking world.
Moreover, Frecuencias combines context- and task-based content and activities, a research-based methodology promoting immediate application of inductively-acquired knowledge and leading to active, effective learning.
Cultural and intercultural presentations and comparisons provide students a clear vision of the global impact of Spanish-speaking cultures and of the world-wide application of their own language skills.
Discover Frecuencias with series consultant Norah Lulich Jones
Norah Lulich Jones
Series consultant for Frecuencias
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Why Frecuencias?
Students find their own voice and path as new members of the Spanish-speaking world:
- From the very first page students are active participants in their own learning, applying their own experiences and knowledge as they participate in intercultural language contexts.
- Thanks to content selected from the world-wide Spanish corpus of the RAE, students both experience and can freely select from varieties of contemporary language samples to address their own communication objectives and needs.
- The video series Hostal Babel invites students into the lives of five young people from various countries, while the instructional design guides them to reflect on and compare their own experiences with that of the protagonists.
- The unique two-page spread section organization provides short, motivating instructional segments and point-of-use tools so that students can immediately apply their learning to real-life tasks.
- The complete corpus experience connects students with the world-wide Spanish-speaking community through linguistic and cultural accuracy and sensitivity in which they are active participants every step of the way.
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Curso revisado por la Real Academia Española
Frecuencias was developed in agreement with the Real Academia Española (RAE), in the following two ways:
- Edinumen was provided access to the RAE world-wide Spanish linguistic corpus and database for the development of the course materials.
- The RAE reviewed the program to insure it is accurate in vocabulary, grammar, and language usage.
The Real Academia Española (RAE) is a member of the Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE), established in Mexico in 1951, and now comprised of 23 academies world-wide (20 in the Americas, plus Spain, Philippines, and Equatorial Guinea). ASALE’s mission is to facilitate the growth and integrity of the Spanish language wherever it is spoken.
With Frecuencias, students enter into and are enriched by an exciting and world-inclusive language and cultural experience.
Spanish Corpora
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR, or MCER in Spanish) is a European standard for measuring the level of comprehension and oral and written expression of a given language.
The Plan curricular del Instituto Cervantes develops and determines the Spanish proficiency level descriptors according to the recommendations found in the European Framework (CEFR).
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