FLUENCY FAST DENVER LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
July 13-16, 2009
$199 before May 31 / $229 after May 31

COST
COURSES
AT A GLANCE QUICK SCHEDULE
LOCATION
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
BECOME A FLUENCY FAST TEACHER

COST:

Language institute fee: $229 (including additional activities) ($199 before May 31 st)
Second class: $179 (additional activities on second class optional. They may conflict.) ($149 before May 31st)
(you can take up to 2 classes as long as they are not scheduled at the same time.)

COURSES:

1. Beginning Mandarin, with Linda Li*
2. Intermediate French, with Diana Noonan
3.Beginning Spanish, with Karen Rowan
4. Intermediate Spanish, with Jason Fritze
5. Advanced Spanish for non-native speakers / Spanish teachers with Carmen Andrews-Sanchez*

(15-30 contact hours, 2 credits per language. Total possible credits for the institute: 4. Go to www.fluencyfast.com/about.htm for teacher bios and course descriptions.
*Morning class)

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AT A GLANCE QUICK SCHEDULE

Total hours must equal 30+. Class time = 15 hours. Films, immersion meals and independent reading time = flexible 15 hours.

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LOCATION

CEC Middle College of Denver. 2650 Eliot St. 80211.

QUESTIONS? Contact: Karen Rowan, Director, Fluency Fast Language Classes
1-866- WWW-FLUENCY / www.fluencyfast.com

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Beginning Mandarin Chinese
Course Description — Introductory Mandarin Chinese taught through Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods.  Students can expect to acquire the 100 highest frequency words in Mandarin through stories and action.  There is no pressure to speak or perform.  This class is popular with tourists, travelers, business professionals and people who have previously taken Chinese. Students are invited to take this class more than once because although the curriculum changes each time, the pace will always stay comfortable so that your experience is effortless and fun. See handouts from previous classes.

Intermediate French
Course Description — Introductory French taught through Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods. An intermediate French course aimed at the rapid achievement of an intermediate level of proficiency (using the ACTFL scale) through interesting reading, engaging storytelling and personalized discussions. Students can expect to acquire the 100-200 highest frequency words in French in the past tenses, preterite and imperfect, as well as to acquire the present tense through reading.  There is no pressure to speak or perform, but opportunities for conversational French are provided.  Students are able to participate in interviews, brief conversations, to re-tell stories and to suggest plot information as stories are told. This class is popular with tourists, travelers, teachers, health professionals, natural health care practitioners, business professionals and people who took French in high school years ago but can't speak a word today.  Students are invited to take this class more than once because although the curriculum changes each time, the pace will always stay comfortable so that your experience is effortless and fun. Students with previous French exposure are guided through the process of reactivating latent vocabulary. True beginners are guided through the process of beginning language acquisition in a low pressure, low-stress environment..

Beginning Spanish
Course Description — Introductory Spanish taught through Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods.  Students can expect to acquire the 100 highest frequency words in Spanish through stories and action.  There is no pressure to speak or perform.  This class is popular with tourists, travelers, elementary school teachers, health professional, natural health care practitioners, business professionals and people who took Spanish in high school years ago but can't speak a word today.  Students are invited to take this class more than once because although the curriculum changes each time, the pace will always stay comfortable so that your experience is effortless and fun.

Intermediate Spanish
Course Description — Intermediate Spanish taught through Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods.  An intermediate Spanish course aimed at the rapid achievement of an intermediate level of proficiency (using the ACTFL scale) through interesting reading, engaging storytelling and personalized discussions. Students can expect to acquire the 100-200 highest frequency words in Spanish in the past tenses, preterite and imperfect, as well as to acquire the present tense through reading.  There is no pressure to speak or perform, but opportunities for conversational Spanish are provided.  Students are able to participate in interviews, brief conversations, to re-tell stories and to suggest plot information as stories are told. This class is popular with tourists, travelers, elementary school teachers, health professionals, natural health care practitioners, business professionals and people who took Spanish in high school years ago but can't speak a word today.  Students are invited to take this class more than once because although the curriculum changes each time, the pace will always stay comfortable so that your experience is effortless and fun. Students with previous Spanish exposure are guided through the process of reactivating latent vocabulary. True beginners are guided through the process of beginning language acquisition in a low pressure, low-stress environment.

Still not sure whether to take Beginning or Intermediate Spanish?

Advanced Spanish
Course Description — Advanced Fluency Fast Spanish for non-native Spanish teachers is a course that was developed in response to requests from Spanish teachers who wanted to improve their fluency while taking a course taught through Total Physical Response®, Story Based Methods and other comprehension based methods. The class is intended for French teachers who are required to teach Spanish with just a long-ago minor in Spanish or Spanish teachers who are competent teaching levels 1 and 2 in a school setting but lack confidence teaching levels 3, 4 or AP. The course uses precisely the same method that is used in our beginning methods, but the content is different.

Students are invited to take this course more than once. Each year the curriculum changes in anticipation of the class and also changes during the class as the instructor adapts the class to the needs of the students in the class.

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