Here is my "Welcome to my class" introduction. It is important that you hear Spanish spoken even while you are still beginning to build a vocabulary. Although you don't understand what is being said, you can practice trying to comprehend the meaning by hearing content words and getting a feel for pronunciation and intonation. As I say in the video, I have an English accent while I speak. We will be incorporating lots of authentic video and audio of native speakers throughout the class so you can hear a variety of native speaker dialects as models of target pronunciation. In this video, I scaffold your skills by supplying dual language subtitles. In this way, you can see the words while I speak, trying to make out the beginning and ending of each word.