Course description
Professional Spanish for Native Speakers is designed specifically for native/heritage speakers of Spanish with considerable oral proficiency. The purpose of this course is to enable students whose heritage language is Spanish to develop, maintain and enhance Spanish-language proficiency in use in across a variety of business settings and industries. Students will have an opportunity to listen and speak about their specific industries with instructor-led discussion and feedback. Each session will include a grammar review on one area which the students appear to find particularly challenging.
Orientation: April 24th, 2019
April 30, May 1, 7, 8, 14, 15
Katty Kauffman is a conference and legal interpreter, a graduate of Pedro de Valdivia School of Law in Santiago, Chile and the Certificate Program in Comparative US/Latin American Legal Reforms at Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, DC. A member of NAJIT and AIIC, she is a contributing author to the 2nd Edition of Fundamentals of Court Interpretation and a member of the Editorial Board of the 2nd Edition of Sandro Tomasi's Criminal Law Dictionary. A frequent speaker nationwide on the criminal procedure reforms that have swept Latin America, a former staff interpreter with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and federal exam rater, she is currently working as a freelancer from her home base in Miami.