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The Modern Foreign Language

The Castleton Spanish program makes it possible for students to acquire cultural knowledge and to become proficient in the Spanish language in an environment that embraces a holistic approach and retains a genuine interest in cultivating the love for the Spanish languages and cultures.

Our teaching faculty is composed of native speakers from different parts of the Spanish speaking countries; we have a professor from Peru, another from Argentina, and each year we have a teaching assistant typically from Mexico.

A Program with Many Activities
Our students benefit from a diverse student population: some native speakers, others that have gone abroad to study Spanish, and novice but ambitious Vermont and out-of-state students. The program offers small, yet personalized classes that are learner-centered. Our students may voice their interests and opinions at our weekly Spanish Club meetings. They are offered an opportunity to practice their communicative skills outside the classroom setting at our weekly language table meetings. They can put their creativity and competitive minds to work at our cultural semester agenda, which includes cooking workshops, dance classes, film showings, our Spanish radio program and/or our full immersion field trips to cities such as New York, Boston, or Montreal.

Each semester brings in new forces and special people that help us define the particular needs for that time period. Our students have had hands-on experience while translating official documents and they had a unique opportunity to teach Spanish to the little ones from a local middle school. As Spanish is increasingly being spoken in more areas and by more people, we will continue to find new ways to relate our students to the community.

Why study Spanish?
Spanish is a vital and vibrant language in world communication, business, e-commerce, politics, and culture. Some 373 million people speak Spanish as a first language. During the decade between 1980 and 1990 there was an increase of 50% in the number of Spanish speaking people in the United States. Spanish is now the most spoken language after English in this country. It is also the second most used language at the Web. Spanish is gaining more recognition in the academic world as an independent and promising major for students from all backgrounds. .