After taking this course, you will be able to: ✅ produce simple phrases about people and places ✅ follow very slow and carefully articulated speech ✅ answer simple questions, initiate and respond to simple statements on very familiar topics ✅ write simple phrases and sentences ✅ understand the content of simple informational material and short simple descriptions ✅ learn to use the simplest everyday polite forms of greetings and farewells, introductions, saying please, thank you, sorry ✅ describe yourself, what you do and where you live ✅ have a basic vocabulary repertoire of words and phrases related to particular concrete situations