Instructor: Janet Gesme

Biography: Janet Gesme is a musician, translator, teacher, wife and mother of two. She earned her Bachelors in Viola Performance from the University of Missouri in 1995 and a Masters in German from Portland State University in 2013. She has played in orchestras across the United States and now makes her home in Bend, Oregon. German, Russian, Spanish, French, Hungarian and Korean are among the languages that she enjoys speaking, reading and translating. She feels blessed to have had the opportunity to translate Christopher Schacht's "Around the World on 50 Bucks" and Martin Schleske's "The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty."

Classes by this instructor

COSSI Group B Language Lab: Beginning High-Intermediate Low

This blended level course is for students who have been introduced to, and have a working knowledge of the present tense This course will provide a thorough and extensive review of the Present Tense only, practice of -AR, -ER & -IR verbs, introduction of stem-changing verbs, Ser & Estar, "Tener + que + infinitive ", and "Ir + a + infinitive." It will introduce reflexive verbs and pronouns, and introduction of the imperfect tense. There will be an emphasis on vocabulary development, communication strategies, and oral proficiency. Group B will be taught using 70%-90% comprehensible Spanish at this level.
June 23-26, 2025 | 8:30am-5:00pm PDT | Redmond