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title: "Year 8 Spanish"
site: "Scotch Global Connect"
url: "https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/courses/year-8-spanish"
description: "Spanish will be our language in the Connect Year 8 programme."
published: "2023-10-02"
updated: "2024-02-01"
---

# Year 8 Spanish

Spanish will be our language in the Connect Year 8 programme.
Path: Courses › Year 8 Spanish

## Year 8 Spanish

Course overview

## The Languages curriculum for Western Australia has been written on the basis that schools provide a Languages program, in at least one language subject, from Pre-primary to Year 10. As a minimum, all students will study a Language subject from Year 3 to Year 8.

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#### Spanish will be our language in the Connect Year 7 programme. Teachers will use the curriculum to cater for learners of different backgrounds by making appropriate adjustments to differentiate learning experiences for these students.

Spanish is a global language spoken by approximately 500 million people across the world. Spanish evolved from Latin on the Iberian Peninsula in around the ninth century, and travelled from Spain to the Caribbean and to North, Central and South America as a result of the expeditions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The language has been enriched by many other languages, including Arabic, Basque, Greek, French, English and the indigenous languages of the Americas.

The migration of Spanish speakers to Australia began in the nineteenth century and increased during the 20th century with people migrating from countries such as Spain, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru and Guatemala.

As Spanish belongs to the family of Romance languages, derived from Latin, it has many lexical and structural connections with English as well as other European languages. As a result of this relationship, knowledge of Spanish can facilitate the learning of other languages from the Romance family, such as Catalan, Galician, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian.

## Topics

- Spanish
- Senior school teacher
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