Spanish for Banking

Hours: 16 / Access Length: 6 Months / Delivery: Online, Mentor Supported
Retail Price: $275.00

Course Overview:

Spanish for Banking is designed for banking and credit union professionals wanting to better communicate with their Spanish-speaking customers.

Students will build their banking Spanish vocabulary and conversation skills while learning with pictures, native-pronunciations, readings, and quizzes, as well as cultural tidbits along the way. 

Course Mentor:

Tara Bradley Williams, co-Founder of Pronto Spanish, is the instructional designer for all of Pronto Spanish courses and materials.  Tara has over 25 years of Spanish and ELL (English Language Language) teaching experience at the high school, community college, and corporate training levels.  Tara has a BA degree in Spanish and Sociology from St. Norbert College and a MA in Adult Education from the University of Denver. She has studied Spanish at the Universidad de Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain and has lived and traveled extensively in Spain and Latin America. 

Course Outline:

Spanish Fundamentals:

• Introduction
• Greetings
• More Greetings
• More Conversational Phrases
• Survival Words
• Numbers 0-9
• Numbers 10-1000
• Colors
• Directions
• Places
• Questions
• Time
• Months & Seasons
• Days of the Week and Date
• Family
• Personal Characteristics
• Likes and Dislikes

Spanish for Banking:

• Common Banking Job Titles
• General Banking Vocabulary
• Banking Verbs
• Opening an Account
• The Application
• Specific Application Questions
• Cashing a Check
• Depositing a Check
• Withdrawals and Transfers
• Banking Problems

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.