Anyone complete any of these studies? (Mexican/Spanish Propios)

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Just looked at the offerings and have never heard of these schools before. The CLEA one has some interesting paramedic and tactical emergency medicine certificate programs. They cater to people that already have Latin American healthcare degrees that just want to expand their knowledge. Most likely the CLEA ones will have a lot of zoom live video panels and weekly assignments. So you should expect to be fluent in Spanish to make the investment worthwhile. Not sure if the healthcare courses will be accepted for credit in US universities.

I have never heard of these specific Spain schools, but I graduated last year from a language course from the INESEM school. Fully self paced (you must finish it in 6 months or risk being unable to graduate). Lots of videos that were easy to understand. I don't recall seeing subtitles anywhere. I don't have any difficulty understanding academic Spanish so I don't remember if you could use close captioning.

The INESEM course has a lot of quizzes but you can repeat them over and over until you get everything right. Some of the quizzes were super easy, others were long reading passages with questions in the next page that test your reading comprehension. I struggled a lot with those ones and used google translate to understand what they wanted. Since I bought the A1 and A2 bundle for around 350 USD, I had a more compressed course with 2 final exams for each level. The A1 was quite easy. The course prepared me pretty well for it. You get two chances to do the final and the questions stay the same so it is very easy to score high on the final. I think there were 50 questions and it was multiple choice. The A2 test was much harder for me because I had to rush through the material without fully learning it to graduate on time, but doable.

There is supposed to be an online tutor in case you want help for the optional writing exercises that aren’t needed to finish the course. I had a hard time navigating the page and found out about the tutoring just a few days before I finished, so I never had rhe chance to try it out. I regret not doing the written assignments, it would have helped me retain more knowledge.

I would say the course was quite easy considering I didn’t know any words of the language and now I am around an upper A1 and lower A2 in reading. The school shipped the physical diploma insanely fast. It was very streamlined and I appreciate them for it. I have not yet had it translated to English, so I don't know if any US university would accept it for credit. If they don't accept them, I might still consider giving the Actfl reading exam a shot.

There is another very popular online school called Euroinnova that offers other courses. I haven't tried them out, but people say they are similar to Inesem.

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