CHANGED FROM CATALOG, NOW TUESDAYS, OCTOBER 22.

Do you want to enhance communication with deaf and hard of hearing family, friends, and co-workers or pre-verbal children? Join Martin Samelson, college professor and job coach for the deaf, as he demonstrates the manual alphabet, fingerspelling, vocabulary, and sentence structure. Learn how to communicate without voice by the end of your first class. No textbook required. Handouts provided. Second session repeats material from the first.

Explore current events and travel via news articles and videos with the goal of improving comprehension and conversation skills, as well as grammatical usage. This is a high-intermediate course. No textbook required.

You will develop skills in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, spelling and conversation. Students are responsible for ordering their own book prior to the start of class: “Basic Spanish” (second edition), by Dorothy Richmond.