CLEP Spanish Language: Levels 1 and 2

[MarkT]

How hard is passing this exam versus versus taking DE Spanish at a typical CC?

https://clep.collegeboard.org/world-languages/spanish-language

 

[student has a weak background in Spanish from high school courses so significant self-study would be required ]

[StephanieZ]

My 2 college kids both CLEP'ed out of Spanish. (11 hours/3 semesters credit for one. 14 hrs/4 semesters for the other.) However, we haven't used DE courses, etc, so I can't really compare . . .

 

What I can remind you is that you can re-CLEP in 3 months. So, what we did was to have the kid take the CLEP, see what happened, and plan to re-CLEP if needed. Neither kid opted to re-CLEP. 

 

So, anyway, that's my suggestion. If you think the kid might be reasonably ready, just give it a try. Redo if needed. :) 

[mumto2]

Dd did not do the Spanish Clep but did did do both the French and German. I will share her experiences simply to bump. She took SAT subject exams in both languages a week or so before the Clep, the written version so the listening was different. Dd did receive a high enough score to receive two years credit at some universities. They were accepted for dd.

 

Overall she thought the vocabulary required for the subject exam and Clep were very similar so no problems there. There were several different native speakers and she did have problems with the accents for a couple speakers on each exam. Being a smart test taker who moves forward when they don't know something was important. ;)

 

I don't think REA has a review book for the Spanish Clep but if they do start there. Check your library for SAT subject review books. Also the big Clep exam book will have one so use it with care. ;)

[MomsintheGarden]

Dd CLEPed out of 4 semesters of Spanish. She used Rosetta Stone (didn't like it, but it was paid for), a Barron's Spanish verbs book, speaking with her cousin, reading a Spanish Bible, and the Speedyprep Spanish review. We can't compare with a CC class; ymmv with that because there are so many CCs with different profs, books, etc.

[Momto6inIN]

DS got a ~68 CLEP score which got him out of 3 semesters of Spanish. He used Visual Link (levels 1-3) for 2 years and then Destinos for the 3rd year. He says the all written multiple choice questions were pretty easy and the combo written/listening section was not easy but doable and the all listening section was hard. He used Spanish Hour to brush up before the test but doesn't think that it helped too much.

 

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[StephanieZ]

DS got a ~68 CLEP score which got him out of 3 semesters of Spanish. He used Visual Link (levels 1-3) for 2 years and then Destinos for the 3rd year. He says the all written multiple choice questions were pretty easy and the combo written/listening section was not easy but doable and the all listening section was hard. He used Spanish Hour to brush up before the test but doesn't think that it helped too much.

 

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For his third/Destinos year, is all he used Destinos? How did he find it? 

 

My dd is doing 3rd/4th-ish year Spanish this year, and we're making it up as she's already completed all the high school level Spanish stuff I used with her older siblings (Galore Park levels 1-3, they don't make a level 4, unfortunately, lol). Anyway, this year, she's watching Destinos (a couple episodes a week), doing iTalki (an hour a week), and messing about with Duolingo (the rest of the time, so a couple hours a week). . . as a "Spanish 3/4" year (not sure which I'll call it, lol, depends on what we do for her next year or if she CLEPs out of it at year end). 

 

 

So, anyway, I'm curious how he found Destinos and what he used other than/in addition to it? So far, dd has just watched maybe 11 episodes, and so far, the exercises haven't had any new info, so she's not spending much time on those (yet). I'm wondering if it ramps up at all? Or what "level" you found it?

 

Thanks!

[Momto6inIN]

For his third/Destinos year, is all he used Destinos? How did he find it?

 

My dd is doing 3rd/4th-ish year Spanish this year, and we're making it up as she's already completed all the high school level Spanish stuff I used with her older siblings (Galore Park levels 1-3, they don't make a level 4, unfortunately, lol). Anyway, this year, she's watching Destinos (a couple episodes a week), doing iTalki (an hour a week), and messing about with Duolingo (the rest of the time, so a couple hours a week). . . as a "Spanish 3/4" year (not sure which I'll call it, lol, depends on what we do for her next year or if she CLEPs out of it at year end).

 

 

So, anyway, I'm curious how he found Destinos and what he used other than/in addition to it? So far, dd has just watched maybe 11 episodes, and so far, the exercises haven't had any new info, so she's not spending much time on those (yet). I'm wondering if it ramps up at all? Or what "level" you found it?

 

Thanks!

We watched the Destinos video together, then he did the textbook exercises and the workbook exercises on his own along with the listening cd's. I didn't really have a "vision" of what his language education should look like, I just that I knew he needed 3 years on his transcript so after he finished Visual Link in 2 years rather than 3 and I was trying to figure out where to go from there I read about Destinos on these boards and remembered using it myself in college Spanish back in the day so I thought we'd try it.

 

I don't think that the exercises really introduced more concepts or vocabulary exactly, but just hearing the language spoken aloud conversationally was invaluable. And the written exercises made him more fluent and confident, which i think is what helped him want to try the CLEP.

 

I don't have any idea how to level it ... but for what it's worth I used it in college back in the 90s when it was a newly developed program and after finishing it I was done with my language requirements for a Big 10 school liberal arts major.

 

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