My class was taught by Professor Adelaida E. Rama Luna (both she and Professor Robinson were listed as instructors). She is super nice and a very good lecturer, and if you need extra help she is more than happy to help you. I get socially anxious sometimes so it was really nice to have a professor who gave off very warm energy and made me feel comfortable asking for help.

Class size was pretty small with only 12 students. Grade distribution: 60% 3 essays, 10% online activities, 15% group oral presentation, and 15% 4 quizzes. I was very nervous going into the class because I'm not a great writer, but honestly if you just follow the instructions for the essays you will get a good grade. They also only have to be 2-3 pages long double spaced. The online activities were just answering questions about readings and also grammar practice, and most of the time you get unlimited attempts so it is not too hard to do well in that section. The quizzes were also about the readings and the grammar, and for the first two if you got at least 10/14 right it counted as 100%. The group oral presentation was just to analyze work by any Latin Artist, it only had to be 10 minutes for 3-4 people, and my group was great so it was very fun to do.

Overall the class is pretty chill; I definitely did not put in as much work as I should have but thankfully I still got an A.

TA: Maddie Paulow (the GOAT in my opinion)

I'm quite surprised to see that there hasn't been a single new review since 2012 from here! Okay here is my review! The grade breakdown is as follows:
Practice using the online lessons: 15%
Listening/Reading/Writing/Performance Assessment:40%
Speaking Assessment: 30%
Quizzes: 15%

Basically, you will be tested on your Spanish capabilities at least twice in the quarter (they essentially act as your midterm and final). You gotta go to class because that is where you will be able to practice your Spanish with your peers. Maddie was the best because she would create her own material that went beyond the textbook and make the activities very fun. As someone who was scared to death speaking Spanish in the class, it truthfully wasn't that bad. I do think the material pick up a bit after week 4, but it was definitely manageable, and Maddie made everything feel very doable. If she's teaching the whole series, I cannot recommend her enough! She cares so much about student's learning about Spanish, and she is more than willing to explain to you the certain quirks about the language!

The writing exam part of the exam were always easier for me, but the oral is harder in the sense that you have to act out scenarios with a group of 2-3 of your peers. The quizzes mainly consisted of the stuff you learned for the unit you were being taught, and the online practice was essentially free points! Maddie is the goat for real!

Professor Falce-Robinson is a very welcoming and approachable professor. She is very understanding of individual student situations and does her absolute best to make the classroom a comfortable environment for participation. The pace and workload of the class were very manageable and reasonable to keep up with. Overall, I felt her class was a very valuable experience and I hope to take more Spanish classes with her in the future. It is very important to her that students participate in class and keep up with the assigned readings, but this isn't difficult to do since the workload is very manageable.

Great teacher, useful class if you put in the work.

Absolutely loved taking her class, she is very nice and wants to help the student.

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Class was facilitated by Anita Joo Kyeong Kim and was pretty straightforward. Directions were always clear and Anita made herself extremely available for questions. I think the course load was very manageable and the classes themselves are fun. I wish the course covered more material, but the pacing itself was good and I still managed to learn a lot.

TA Armando Guerrero:

This is probably the best class you can ever take at UCLA. Armando is the best TA. He knows his stuff and is dedicated to teaching his students. I wrote this before receiving my final grade so my opinion would not be bias. Definitely take this class!

I took Spanish 7A with David Ramirez Prieto, under the supervision of Falce-Robinson, J. The professor is a grad student but he's basically as knowledgeable as any other professor.

I loved David's teaching style and personality. He was very kind and welcoming to everyone, regardless of their level of Spanish. The class consisted of interactive activities during class and for homework we had only mini assignments on Quia. You do need to buy a brand new textbook and access code from the UCLA bookstore. I did not find a way around this.

The midterm is online through a lockdown browser. It was simple and straightforward, at least for someone with a fairly good knowledge of Spanish. We did have to write a small essay in it, 1-3 paragraphs. The final was a bit difficult because the vocabulary was more challenging. We did have 2 group presentations, one as a midterm with 2-4 people. And again, a final presentation that required us to go visit a museum.

This class was fun with David and I would recommend him to anybody looking to strengthen their Spanish.

This is one of those classes where you don't meet the instructor and everything is conducted by your TA. My TA was Madison Panagotacos (I think that was her last name...Madison for sure) and she was great. I took 4 years of Spanish in high school and considered it to be a strength of mine, but it had been 3 years since that before I took this class. Even so, everything came back pretty quickly and it wasn't difficult at all. But this is because I was proficient enough to not have to take Spanish 1 and 2 at UCLA, so that probably contributed to my performance in the class. There were a lot of people with different speaking and comprehension abilities in the class and Madison was well aware of it. She made herself very available for anyone who needed extra help. There are a lot of annoying homework assignments in this class but it's just busy work, nothing is actually difficult. That would be my only complaint for this class. Otherwise very easy and fun.

Expect a lot of groupwork every time you walk inside that classroom. Participation is very important.