Spanish (Online)
How to learn Spanish at the Language Centre including pathways, timetables and fees.
Intensive Course Timetable September 2020
| Information for non-members of the University is here. | Course Pathway | Stage* | Duration | Time of live sessions | Date of first live session | Date of final live session |
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| ENROL | General Intensive (Online) | Advanced | 3 weeks | Tuesday 10:00 - 10.30 & Thursday 10:00 - 10.30 | 15 September 2020 | 01 October 2020 |
| ENROL | General Intensive (Online) | Advanced | 3 weeks | Tuesday 17:00 - 17.30 & Thursday 17:00 - 17.30 | 15 September 2020 | 01 October 2020 |
| ENROL | General Intensive (Online) | Advanced | 3 weeks | Tuesday 17:30 - 18:00 & Thursday 17:30 - 18:00 | 15 September 2020 | 01 October 2020 |
Timetable Michaelmas Term 2020
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Information for non-members of the University is here. |
Course Pathway |
Stage* |
Part |
Duration |
Time of live session |
Date of first live session | Date of final live session |
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| ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesday 16:30 - 17:00 | 21 October 2020 | 25 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesday 17:00 - 17:30 | 21 October 2020 | 25 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesday 17:30 - 18:00 | 21 October 2020 | 25 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesday 14:00 - 14:30 | 20 October 2020 | 24 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 1 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesday 14:30 - 15:00 | 20 October 2020 | 24 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesday 11.00 - 11:30 | 20 October 2020 | 24 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesday 11.30 - 12:00 | 20 October 2020 | 24 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 2 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Tuesday 16:00 - 17:00 | 20 October 2020 | 24 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 3 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesday 13.00 - 13:30 | 21 October 2020 | 25 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 3 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Wednesday 13.30 - 14:00 | 21 October 2020 | 25 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 4 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 09:00 - 09:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 4 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 10:00 - 10:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 5/6/7 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 11:00 - 11:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 5/6/7 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 14:00 - 14:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 5/6/7 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 15:00 - 15:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | General (Online) | 5/6/7 | 1 | Weeks 2-7 | Friday 16:00 - 16:30 | 23 October 2020 | 27 November 2020 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 1+2 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Tuesday 14:00 - 15:00 | 20 October 2020 | 15 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 1+2 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Tuesday 15:30 - 16:30 | 20 October 2020 | 15 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 1+2 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Thursday 17:00 - 18:00 | 22 October 2020 | 17 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 2+3 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Tuesday 17:00 - 18:00 | 20 October 2020 | 15 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 2+3 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Thursday 17:30 - 18:30 | 22 October 2020 | 17 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 2+3 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Tuesday 18:00 - 19:00 | 20 October 2020 | 15 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 3+4 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Tuesday 17:00 - 18:00 | 20 October 2020 | 15 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 3+4 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 | 22 October 2020 | 17 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 3+4 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Thursday 15:30 - 16:30 | 22 October 2020 | 17 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 4+5 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Friday 17:00 - 18:00 | 23 October 2020 | 18 June 2021 |
| ENROL | Fast Track (Online) | 4+5 | N/A | Weeks 2-8 (MT). Weeks 1-8 (HT & TT) | Friday 13:00 - 14:00 | 23 October 2020 | 18 June 2021 |
MT = Michaelmas Term (October - December); HT = Hilary Term (January - March); TT = Trinity Term (April-June)
*A Stage is made up of three Parts, usually Part 1 is Michaelmas term, Part 2 is Hilary term and Part 3 is Trinity term. However, in some instances we will run another Part 1 in Hilary term due to popularity, please check the timetable carefully. Please note, complete beginners (Stage 1) cannot join Parts 2 or 3 if they have not completed Part 1.
Fees, funding, enrolment and mode of delivery
If the course on which you would like to enrol is fully booked, please check the timetable to see if the same course is being offered at a different time (many of our courses have several iterations, each with a different day/time for the ‘live session’). In addition, we operate a first-come, first-served waiting list, simply click on the Join the Waiting List button alongside the course of your choice and we will email you if a space becomes available.
If you need to learn a language to support your studies, you can ask your college, department or faculty to sponsor you via our Priority Funding scheme. You'll need to seek permission from your tutor/supervisor, obtain the email address of the financial signatory in your college/department/faculty, and click on the link to the Priority Funding Application Form below. Priority Funding is not available for Fast Track courses. See our course handbook for more information.
Colleges will consider refunding students up to half the Fast Track course fees on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please contact your college to find out more about their arrangements before you start your course. A form to record the agreement between a student and their college of their eligibility for the reimbursement scheme is available for students to download below: it should not be returned to the Language Centre.
For Learners with an Oxford University SSO (Single Sign-On) simply click on the enrol button next to the class that you wish to join.
For Learners without an Oxford University SSO, or who are not members of the University, please email admin@lang.ox.ac.uk with the following details:
- Full name
- Email address and phone number
- The name of the course you wish to study (including Stage and Part)
- The start date and time of the course
- Your connection to Oxford University, if any (to determine course fee)
We will then provisionally enrol you onto the course and send you a link to the Oxford University Online Store for payment. Once payment is received we will confirm your place on the course.
What happens after I enrol?
After enrolment you will receive an automated booking email to confirm your payment. From Week 1 you will be added to the course on Canvas (Oxford University's Virtual Learning Environment). You will receive an invitation to join Canvas, please accept it and follow the instructions for your course and make sure to go through your learning pathway before your first live session with your tutor. Course materials will be available a week before each live session. Please make sure that you read the course handbook for the course you wish to take with us as this contains more detailed information.
We will be starting all our courses for 2020-21 through a flexible and inclusive mode of delivery, which will all be online. This will include small group live online conversation classes every week and online learning pathways for preparatory taught content, activities, and feedback - all using the University's Virtual Learning Environment, Canvas.
Having had the opportunity to learn from the experience and feedback from our learners and tutors in Trinity 2020, we are confident that this mode of delivery works well for our community of learners. It enables you to work at your own pace, have access to a complete set of learning materials beyond the life of the course to master and review - it also facilitates high quality feedback both of a generic and individual nature.
GENERAL PATHWAY
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Term by term commitment
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded option available with Priority funding scheme
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1
- Length of live online session: 30 minutes
- Learning pathway including language instruction and guided learning: 1.5 - 2 hours per week
- Recommended self-study and practice time: 2 hours per week
ACADEMIC PATHWAY
- Focus primarily on reading and on learners' academic needs for the language
- Term by term commitment
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded option available with Priority funding scheme
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1
- Length of live online session: 1 hour
- Learning pathway including language instruction and guided learning: 1.5 hours per week
- Recommended self-study and practice time: 2 hours per week
FAST TRACK PATHWAY
- Focus on communication and use of all four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking)
- Yearly commitment with possible entry point in Hilary term
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully funded (and contributory) options available with some programmes of Study from selected Faculties / departments (Mathematical Institute, Material Sciences, Physics and Chemistry) see appendix 3 in the Fast Track handbook for further information
- Part funding reimbursed by Colleges (UG) or Faculties (PG) upon completion of course and assessments
- Certificates of attendance and completion available
- Number of live online sessions per week: 1 (or possibly 2 for Stages 1+2)
- Length of live online session: 1 hour (or possibly 2 x 30 minutes for Stages 1+2)
- 2 learning pathways per week: 3 to 4 hours including language instruction videos and guided learning activities, communicative tasks and feedback
- Recommended additional self-study and practice time: 1 to 2 hours per week
INTENSIVE PATHWAY
Whether you have been short of time or found it difficult to keep up with your course, or if you prefer learning in a more intensive and focussed manner, we run a selection of our most popular General and Academic courses in an Online Intensive format during Weeks 8, 9 and 10 at the end of each term. Enrolments for these courses will normally open in Week 6 .
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Limited variety of Stages available, mostly beginner and advanced
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Term by term commitment
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Taught in Weeks 8, 9 and 10 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity) – Options for Advanced courses also available pre-term in September
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Number of live online sessions per week: 2
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Length of live online session: 2 x 30 minutes
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Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
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Entry: first-come, first-served
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Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
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Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
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Further resources
Library shelfmark: SP
At Oxford
- The library's Netvibes page offers you the latest news from either Spanish from Spain or from all over theSpanish speaking world. It also includes extended e-resources available at Oxford.
- Spanish at Oxford for undergraduates
- Spanish at Oxford for graduates
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain.
- The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also are in print in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination.
General
- Corpus del Español - access is free but you need to register
- Edinumen online learning in combination with the book Nuevo Prisma Fusión (enter your code which is inside the book after the title page)
- LANIC The Latin American Network Information Center
- Miriada X a MOOCs with many universities participating from the Spanish-speaking world
- MOOCs.es a MOOCs searching platform
- BBC Spanish Language resources
- Ejercicios para aprender español a website collecting exercices from other websites. Mainly for beginner´s level
- Learning Spanish for travel a gateway to other links mostly for beginner's level
- Spanish Study Material - Flash interactive games, very useful
- Spanish Obsessed beginners to advanced
- Spanish resources a very rich site with various levels and exercises
- Study Spanish a Free Online Tutorial - Comprehensive online tutorials for beginning - intermediate level students.
- Mas arriba - online interactive workbook of introductory Spanish language exercises
- Notes in Spanish audio materials
- Spanish Language Exercises From Juan Ramón de Arana at Ursinus College
- Spanish proficiency exercices from the University of Texas at Austen, from beginner to advanced level
- Spanish Pronto Reference resources with sections on pronunciation, the alphabet, and lists of common verbs among others
- Spanish Language Exercises
- University of Victoria Spanish beginners' exercises
Dictionaries
Grammar
- Juan Ramon Araña
- Gramática y ortografía Grammar pages and links from Juan Manuel Soto Arrivi at Indiana University
- How to conjuguate Spanish verbs
- Spanish Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson Spanish grammar exercises
- Spanish grammar drills from Columbia University
- Elemadrid Spanish verb conjugator
Pronunciation
- The Sounds of Spanish: Analysis and Application by Robert M. Hammond Cascadilla Press, 2001. PDF files to download for review questions, tables as well as MP3 sound files to accompany most of the chapters.
Vocabulary
- Medical Spanish medical Spanish for Healthcare providers
- Smart Phrase. Smart Phrase Online Phrasebook Useful vocabulary and phrase finders in the following languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Dutch, Portuguese
- Spanish vocabulary quizzes from JetPunk
Culture
- Amauta Spanish School Latin American film, literature and music website
- Centro Virtual Cervantes
- El cultural Online version of the Spanish magazine 'El Cultural'
- Museo Thyssen-Bronemiza, Madrid Virtual tour of the museum and its collections, special features include new acquisitions and current shows
- Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
- Museo del Prado, Madrid
Literature
- Grandes Escritores lives and works of some of the best known Latin American writers: Jorge Luis Borges; Mario Vargas Llosa; Julio Cortázar; Pablo Neruda; Gabriel García Márquez; Rafael Alberti; and José Saramago
Media
If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page
The library's Netvibes page offers you the latest news from either Spanish from Spain or Spanish from all over theSpanish speaking world.
- Print
- El Pais Digital
- El Periodico
- La Hora Ecuadorean daily paper
- Clarín Argentinian daily paper
- La Nacion Argentinian daily paper
- Últimas noticas Venezuelan daily paper
- Reforma Mexican daily paper
- Online
- BBC Mundo BBC news in Spanish
- Radio
- TV
Miscellany
- Information (in English only) about the Quinceanera
- Dia de los Muertos (in English) information about the day of the Dead (Mexico)
Course fees
Useful links
Course textbooks
Information about course textbooks can be found in the course handbooks above.
