Innovations:
Intercultural learning
Cultural barriers are perhaps even greater than linguistic barriers when it comes to communicating with people from different backgrounds. Ritmos targets training in intercultural communication as one of its primary objectives, equal to language learning.
| We believe this is not only necessary, but a critical component of Ritmos. It does no good to train students in Spanish if they refuse to actually speak it, because they are uncomfortable or unwilling to communicate with people different from themselves. |  |
Ritmos helps students develop their ability and willingness to communicate by covering a broad base of cultural information, using guided cultural gap problems, and by having student listen to countless narratives, personal experiences of native Spanish speakers in their home countries as well as their experiences in the USA.
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