Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Language Work at Part IA and IB

• Part IA (Spanish)
• Part IA (Portuguese)
• Part IB (Spanish)
• Part IB (Portuguese)

Useful links

• Beginners' Language Courses (Part IA ab initio): Spanish & Portuguese
• Recommended Portuguese Dictionaries and Grammars (all levels)
• Recommended Spanish Dictionaries and Grammars (all levels)
• Part II Language Papers

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Part 1 language papers

The Part I language courses provided by the Department are designed to develop your knowledge of and skills in Spanish or Portuguese to a very high level of proficiency (Part I in a language is recognised as an independent qualification in itself), and to prepare you for the advanced study of the culture (and/or languages) of the many Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries as offered in Parts IB and II of the Tripos.

Language work at Part I has been carefully distributed between Part IA and Part IB, with the aim of providing you with a progressive language course taking you to a very high level of competence before you embark on your year abroad. Obviously, the course content for students who are starting Spanish or Portuguese from scratch will be different from the one aimed at students who already have an A-level in one of these languages - please see the ab initio pages for further information: Spanish and Portuguese.

Besides the courses and classes mentioned here, there will be plenty of opportunity for independent study, both in the Language Centre, which has satellite television and self-access language courses, and in our Computer Assisted Language Learning Facility (CALL).

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Part IA

The following papers are taken by everyone in Part IA; two of these are language papers. Follow the links for information on the examination and teaching provided for every paper.

Spanish

• Option (a) (ab initio students)
  • SP A1: Introduction to Spanish 1: Use of Spanish.
  • SP A2: Introduction to Spanish 2: Translation from Spanish and Oral A.
  • SP A3: Introduction to Hispanic Literature.
• Option (b) (Post A-level students)
  • SP B1: Use of Spanish.
  • SP B2: Translation from Spanish and Oral B.

Portuguese

• Option (a) (ab initio students)
  • PG A1: Introduction to Portuguese 1: Use of Portuguese.
  • PG A2: Introduction to Portuguese 2: Translation from Portuguese and Oral A.
  • PG A3: Introduction to Lusophone Literature.
• Option (b) (Post A-level students)
  • PG B1: Use of Portuguese.
  • PG B2: Translation from Portuguese and Oral B.

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Part IB

The following papers are taken by everyone in Part IB; Option (a) continues to be for students who started from scratch in Part IA, while Option (b) is for those who took the post A-level course in part IA.

Follow the links for information on the examination and teaching provided for every paper.

Spanish

• Option (a)
  • SP B1: Use of Spanish.
  • SP B2: Translation from Spanish and Oral B
• Option (b)
  • SP B3: Translation into Spanish and Spanish through Audiovisual Media

Portuguese

• Option (a)
  • PG B1: Use of Portuguese.
  • PG B2: Translation from Portuguese and Oral B
• Option (b)
  • PG B3: Translation into Portuguese and Portuguese through Audiovisual Media

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