Anyone can follow a course on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.
Standard Set
This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.
- What made you interested in this topic?
- What do you hope to achieve by participating?
- Are you interested in helping with the course organization?
Public Custom Set
This set of signup questions is particular to this course. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.
Thanks for signing up! I can't wait to have you in our class. In order to access the exercises, you'll have to create an account and enroll at SpanishMOOC on CourseSites.
We'll be using an adaptive-learning platform called Instreamia, which bases your learning on videos in Spanish.
It's great to have you! Please answer these questions:
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What's interesting about this course to you? Do you want to learn Spanish, or do you teach it?
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Where are you from and what's your background with Spanish
Again, welcome aboard!
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Location: Antwerp
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In my opinion, when you talk the language of native people you can understand them and their behaviour better. May be, in the future, I get to work in Spain or Latin-South America, I think it's very nice to make yourself understandable by then.
I have already had some classes in Spanish, but that's a couple of years ago. I would like to improve my spanish, by starting again from the beginning.
Normally I would say that I am very interested to help the organisation. But this is my first course from P2PU, so I'll first try it as a participant :).
I want to improve my Spanish, I have already had some lessons a couple of years ago. I am from Holland and I study in Belgium. With making this small step to a 'foreign country', I realise again that I love to get to know cultures and cultural similars and differences. I hope in the future I can use my Spanish to learn more about the Spanish people from locals in Spain or Latin-America.
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I have traveled quite a bit to Spanish speaking countries and have always wanted to become fluent in Spanish. this course would be a good first start. I hope to get a better understanding of basic Spanish principles such as grammer, pronunciation, etc and be able to develop some basic communication skills.
At this time, I am not able to help with course organization.
Free onlne education, doesn't get any better than that. Plus, my schedule prohitibs me from taking a traditional course. I want to learn Spanish. I am from the Washington DC area and I have a basic level communication skills in what I call "travel" Spanish.
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Location: Los Angeles
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I have always wanted to learn Spanish as it is spoken all over California. I hope by participating in this class I can learn the basics of Spanish.
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Addicted to learning
Location: Lithuania
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It is ussefull to know spanish language
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California born and raised. Reader. Writer. I'm in love with Mr. Knightley from Jane Austen's Emma. All men should be like him. War and Peace is quite an agonizing read after all. Sean Connery is the best Scottish actor ever. My next car will be a Subaru or a Toyota. And Apple beats Microsoft. Every. Single. Time.
Location: Marietta, GA
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I've always wanted to master Spanish and never have been able to return to school. This will be a great way for me to dust off my high school Spanish and grow my vocabulary. I'd never heard of Spanish MOOC before, so I'm interested to see what it's all about.
I'd like to learn Spanish so I can finally have mastered another language. I do have three years of high school Spanish, but that was many moons ago. I'm lucky I know how to see "my name is." I'm originally from Santa Cruz, California so Spanish was the other language.
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Location: Las Vegas
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I'm a general scatter brain that loves being busy with 1001 things at the same time. Some rare occations of laser focus do occurs and I enjoy those moments too.
I am also part of the P2PU staff and will be working on the guts and gears of Lernanta
Location: Durban, South Africa
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I know a few Spanish words, but not a lot about the grammer, so I would like to learn about it.
I would like to learn to have conversations in Spanish.
I know a few words and phrases.
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I love learning and I learn new things every day. I hope to expand my knowledge base by learning new things from you.
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I have never been great at learning new languages. It's hard for me to learn things quickly and I've always had to cram everything all at once, so I never understand what I've been taught. I hope to achieve a better understanding of Spanish so that I may better communicate with others who speak it. I am interested in learning but I'm not sure how much I could help with course organization.
I went on a vacation to Puerto Vallarta, as well as Cabo San Lucas and I was not able to understand any one there. I would love to be able to learn Spanish so that I may better understand others who speak it. I hope to learn Spanish from you. I am from North Carolina and I've had a few classes in spanish but I have not been able to truly grasp the language.
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Desire to learn a language
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Location: Atlanta
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I have always wanted to learn Spanish. I hope to be able to have a conversation in Spanish at the end of the course. I am not interested in helpin with the course organization.
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Hi. My name is Karen, and I am one of the founders and organizers of P2PU's School of Ed.
I love being involved in exciting, passion-driven learning projects! I think that having a passion for what you do is one of the most important things in life.
My professional pursuits involve writing, K-12 education, ed tech, and open education. I am an advocate for OER and frequently present on this topic at conferences and other venues. I am the co-founder of the Kids Open Dictionary project. I have also been involved in running several ed tech businesses.
My personal pursuits include writing, cooking, organic farming, and carpentry. I live off the grid in a very remote part of the U.S. in a house built with my own hands.
Portfolio
Location: AZ/NM border
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What made you interested in this topic?
I have set a goal to learn Spanish next year, in part to advance the work I'd like to do in the field of social justice.
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What do you hope to achieve by participating?
Any gains in speaking or understanding Spanish would be just great. (I"m language learning imparied, but highly motivated. :)
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Are you interested in helping with the course organization?
Sure, if I can. I'm very experienced with P2PU and online learning in general, but have no Spanish skills. At the least, you can count on me to be active in the course!
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What's interesting about this course to you? Do you want to learn Spanish, or do you teach it?
Want to learn Spanish
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Where are you from and what's your background with Spanish
I live about 45 miles north of the Mexican border in a very remote part of the desert southwest on the AZ/NM border. I have no background in Spanish.
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Location: New York
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I live in NYC, which is reason enough to try to learn Spanish! I am also involved in non profit work with mixed Spanish speakers and English speakers. I would love to be able to do some basic communications with my collaborators without an interpreter.
I have done a little bit of self-study, but I am hoping I will learn more better by working with others in a somewhat more structured way.
Since I am truly a beginner, I don't think I would be appropriate to help organize the course.
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