This course aims to introduce Spanish to students with no previous knowledge of the language and to introduce some key cultural features of the Spanish speaking world. By the end of the course, students should have become proficient in the basics of Spanish pronunciation so that Spanish speakers around the world can understand them. Also, students should be able to communicate simple messages in Spanish and describe their immediate surroundings.  By the end of the course students should have reached Level A1.1 of the Common European Framework of References for Languages (CEFR).