Learner Reviews & Feedback for Spanish Vocabulary: Meeting People by University of California, Davis
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MB
Jan 6, 2021
Good content. Covers basics and helps to simplify grammar. A lot of self learning and practice videos available. The assignments with written and spoken Spanish as well. Highly recommend.
PR
Aug 2, 2021
this course is super dooper amazing. i have learnt n no of things while doing this course and will prefer everyone the classes are so interesting that you are able to learn everything
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By Kimberly K
•Jun 14, 2025
There is zero help when you need it. You get a 2-minute video on a grammar lesson and then good luck figuring out everything else. Most discussion forums are 5-7 years old. Final quizzes don't give you the correct answers upon grading or guide you through what you did wrong, so you just spin your wheels trying to pass a quiz with no help. (Not even any cheats of answers in the forums. Just other people frustrated trying to pass the quizzes. And some of the comments say they asked native Spanish speakers for help passing and even they couldn't figure out the correct answers.) AI graded an assignment incorrectly and when I submitted a request for help/review, I never got a response. I made it through the first of five courses and am unenrolling. Do not recommend at all.
By Krisztina W
•Apr 27, 2026
The course is overall useful. But the peer review at the end for our introduction is not fair. People do not review each others' work and so I cannot complete the course. Also it would be nice to have some way to contact whoever created this course and give feedback. If nobody reviews my assignment I can never graduate this course. That is absolutely not ok. There are people in the course who submitted their final assignment 17 days ago and got no review. I reviewed several people's work. If they use AI, which they did, then they need to use that all the way, and review the final assignment by AI, as well. I would like to give more stars, but the final assignment basically ruins this course.
By Steven C
•Oct 28, 2022
Its not very intuitive and it doesnt show how to make the right conjugations for verbs which is the hardest part. It wont let me skip ahead to other chapters. I'm not looking for a grade. I want to practice spanish in a hurry and I dont have a lot of time to devote. I want to move on to chapter 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Edwina D
•Jul 13, 2021
This course is not for beginners, I had to do this course twice to understand the basics and also had to refer to google spanish translations. Also was not very comfortable recording videos for peer reviews. Would have preferred if some qualified person had reviewed my work instead as peer reviews are done by students who themselves are in the process of learning.
By Mohammad B
•Mar 14, 2022
1) learning modules are meant for illeritarte mexican kids, not for non-hispanic learner of the language.
2) add a table of refrnece, so I dont have to pause videos
3) text-questons have a bug, i just copy the question and get it right.
By Michael R
•Oct 14, 2020
I understand that this was an introduction course to the Spanish language but I don't feel that the exercise's really assisted in learning the language.
I don't think I would recommend this course to others.
By Sanlı A Ö P
•Jun 18, 2021
For completing the course you have to record yourself and upload it online so other people can see you and evaluate you. I do not feel comfortable doing so, therefore I unenroll.
By SEMANUR A
•Sep 29, 2020
You should include how students can learn vocabularies more. Therefore, you make a platform which enables us to memorizes the vocabularies.
By Julia S F
•Nov 22, 2020
Useful information but difficult format; impossible to complete course due to technical glitches. Very frustrating.
By Anshu M
•Jul 20, 2020
it is very confusing. Instructions are in spanish and its hard to understand without english translations
By Susie S
•Mar 17, 2019
I am finding the material a bit confusing... I do not' know why they have to make learning so difficult.
By Qin W
•Aug 19, 2018
No tutor is available.
Discussion form is dead.
You can ask question but you will never get the answer.
By Olubusola A
•Jul 30, 2020
It is not really suitable for beginners. The course speaker and course videos are fast paced.
By Archideb S
•Jul 10, 2020
Questions and the Practice Tests were much more difficult than what was being taught.
By Julia M
•Feb 28, 2022
as a beginner too complicated. I had a very hard time to do the exams and writings
By Divya S
•Apr 23, 2020
Quite difficult. Some of the exercises don't have proper explanations.
By Muhammad h
•May 3, 2022
weak course, in quizes there are a lot of unstudied words
By Stanislav T
•Jul 8, 2023
Not for beginners! Bad no-systematic program!
By Aishwarya K
•Mar 16, 2021
A little too hard for a beginner to follow.
By Emilia Y O
•Feb 18, 2021
Sorry, Ii is far from what I was expecting.
By Antoinette N G
•May 7, 2022
This course is not for beginners
By Tanya R
•Nov 22, 2020
Difficult for beginners
By Suzanne J
•Dec 14, 2024
not enough structure.
By shriyansi
•Jun 7, 2020
As someone who speaks Spanish but doesn't have anyone to practice with, I figured I'd give this course a go as a refresher. For me, this course was okay - I already had the necessary background. However, for a beginner, this course is just bewildering - the tests involve an extensive vocabulary in Spanish, which is never covered in the modules preceding them.
I understand that designing language courses is hard, especially those that are completely online. However, these mistakes are rather basic, I think. Don't use words in tests that you haven't explained before. It's that simple. Don't test me on grammar rules that you haven't bothered to cover.
These are the sort of courses that turn people off from learning new languages. Please, revise the course if your intention is to give people access to a new language.
By Maria S
•Feb 9, 2026
Der Kurs wird übersetzt (Deutsch) angeboten, allerdings ist die Übersetzung und die Übereinstimmung mit der Originalsprache so fehlerhaft, dass das Erlernen der Sprache unmöglich ist, wenn man den Kurs nicht mit Englisch als Grundlage absolvieren möchte. Dringende Empfehlung: Lasst die Übersetzungen nicht von der KI generieren, sondern von qualifizierten Mitarbeitenden, die das Ganze im Anschluss nochmal prüfen. So lässt sich Qualität gewährleisten und der Kurspreis rechtfertigen. Aktuell nicht zumutbar, umsonst bezahlt, da ich während des ersten Moduls bereits abbrechen musste.