Should I take this class online or in a classroom?

Another advantage to an online course is you can go at your own rate, not the instructirs. So you can concentrate one or two days a week and complete more course work than you would with an instructor in two full weeks.

On line courses you can listen with headphones and complete a lot. It’s one course where the instructor doesn’t add much more than correcting pronunciation.

My daughter, an adult, is struggling with an Intro to Psychology course on-line due to where she lives and the conditions of her life. She hates it and craves the stimulation of other students and the professor.

Cranking through a language class where you already know stuff may be easier, but I doubt that a real class would consist of lectures. Language classes are a mix of listening, speaking, writing and reading until the advanced levels.

On the third hand, if your Spanish is good, you might find listening to the other students excruciating. The prof. however would be there to explain the fine points of grammar, vocab., idiom and slang.

If you were learning from scratch, I’d say the classroom, but since you already have a good grasp of Spanish, online would be the easiest and most convenient (and you can always come here with questions you have and I will refer you to someone else because I don’t speak a lick of Spanish! I know my avatar makes it look like I do, but I don’t. And neither does the kid in my avatar!)

I don’t care for online classes much but in this case, it might be fine since you know a lot of Spanish already.

I’ve taken some on-line classes and what I am always challenged with is the quality of voice interaction over conference calls and the like (Blackboard, etc.)

See if you can audit an on-line class and evaluate that aspect of the program. Given your Spanish program might very well contain significant voice dialogue test the quality of doing that remotely. If it’s good, and given your comfort with the language then on-line would be a great option.

I would go online, particularly if you already have a good basis to work from.

The only thing that sucks about online, IMO, is that you can just type a question on a test or a quiz into google, and find the answer to that exact question. I think you lose a lot of actual education that way, but that also depends on the individual and how much they want to actually learn.

If you are interested and like to take classes online then you can go ahead with that otherwise traditional lectures are also the best option to share your ideas with students and make strong communication.