Uses Spanish majority of the time. You gotta study to participate in class.

Best of the best; challenges you to excel.

Very patient, even with lazy, rude students.

Even morons who should not be in college can learn a lot from this awesome prof.

Like only a loser couldnt make an A in this easy course.

You gotta study or your gonna bomb. He doesnt give away A's; you haveto earn them. Challenges you to participate every class. Better come prepared or youll be lost.

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Superior professor.

Fantastic. Take all your Spanish with him!

Makes answering student questions a priority. Takes time to answer questions about tests, lab book, workbook, textbook. Makes you feel comfortable asking questions when you don't understand something the first time.

Great prep for final. Went out of his way to ask for and answer all student questions. Went through every chapter pointing out specific exercises to prep us. Told us what not to study for. Very valuable time with him.

Brings video, CDs, lab book, workbook along with textbook to make for a total sensory experience. No boring lectures. Lots of variety and personal insight from all the countries he's been to. Cares about keeping our interest every class.

If you take prof. Crasto's class you'll really be prepared for 2nd year Spanish at another institution like Sam Houston. Some community college profs dumb down the material but not Crasto.

Like you really learn spanish in this class, unlike high school spanish which is just a joke. He gives us websites for looking up words or prepping for tests. You can really tell spanish is a pasion for this guy.

Very helpful. Very clear. Gotta study but I still got an A in the class. Never misses class; must like his job.

excelent!!!

the final was just like he said: verbs, verbs, verbs challenging but worth it study daily cuz ya cant cram for the final

Now that the semester's over i can truly say that this class with professor crasto was well worth the time. He did his part, i did mine and i made an A in spanish 1.

El Profesor makes class interesting, relevant and informative. He gives web links, library resources and covers supplemental material in class. Answering students' questions is a priority for him. When I miss class I miss out on very valuable teaching.

What can I say? He's one of the best teachers I ever had. He takes time to explain things and emphasizes what's most important or hardest to understand. You can tell he likes doing what he does and he does it well.

Professor Crasto does a great job of making the class relevant, meaningful and keeps it moving. He sticks to the syllabus. He takes time to answer any and all questions we students have. And the tests test whats in the book and what we do in class & la

His website is great, has the syllabus, speaking part on tests, dates. Gives web resources in class for the textbook and the real spanish academy of language or something like that so we can check n see how verbs are conjugated correctly.

Profesor Crastro is really patient with even like dumb questions and explains things even if he already explained them before and he uses websites on the projector and screen thing which is sweet

I would definitely recommend this professor to all students who want to learn Spanish. He's great and teaches you using all possible teaching styles. Professor Crasto is a great instructor who puts his students first.

Darren is great with students, flexible, answers all questions thoroughly, knows the subject in depth, prepares and involves us in the class. He is willing to work with us when we need extra help and uses videos to make it more interesting.

CRASTO ROCKS..HE ANSWERED ALL MY QUESTIONS AND MADE SURRE I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING..I WOULD TAKE HIM AGAIN ANYTIME

take this class; prof crasto is clear and fair; no surprises on tests

ez as ordering at taco bell

Great guy. Everybody talks, writes and reads in Spanish. Tech savy; uses internet, ppt, etc for class presentations. Drops lowest test and lowest home work grade. gets tests back graded the next class. answers email questions quick. Never misses a class and is always prepared. Take his class.

i needed spanish and wanted to do the holiday minisemester and was surprised how great HCC is cause i didnt think junior college instructors knew much of anything but i was really happy with crasto and how the class went and it was pretty easy and all in spanish so i really feel i really learned.

You can pass even if you fail the tests just show up do the homework and try hard its hard to fail thiis class

we did lots of spanish in class and the tests covered what we covered in class...no time wasted

He's very funny! And uses great examples! And he doesn't make you feel stupid for giving wrong answers. :) He's also a very sharp dresser!

drops 2 lowest grades if you miss no big deal nuff sed

This is my 2nd semester of spanish. I had somebody else for the first one and didn't get much out of it. Crasto explains everything wery well and will take time to answer any question. Hes patient and gives lots of examples. If you never had spanish before i highly recommend him because he doesnt assume you already know stuff and explains well.

muy bueno! Me gusta muchisimo este profesor!

i had some hs spansish before then took french in college but it was too much work so i went back to college spanish cause i had to take a language class but i didnt want to do alot of work. this was a good fun class. for homework all you gotta do was fill in the workbook. what we did in class was pretty easy; unlike french; you'll like it

i wanted to take an easy junior college class and this was. we did the lab stuff in class so we didnt have to go anywhere else. the class was focused and went pretty fast. the only work i had to do outside of class was to read the stories in the story book. the prof was fair, answered questions, explained things. i highly recommend this class.

If you didnt grow up like speaking spanish, take this guy. He is clear an keeps going over stuff until you got it. Ask a question an he answers it totally. Like all you have to do is go to class an do what is goin on and youll get it and pass the class. Get the books cause you use em every day so its not like a waste of mony. Totally worth it.

Senor Crasto is not a professor who will let you slack off. I keep going back to him because I actually learn the language, I don't just get an easy A.

I appreciated the time he took into his ppt presentations. He's not VERY helpful, but he isn't strict on rules. He gives you plenty of time to do the assignments and drops the lowest test grade. The story quizzes are easy. Test outline is on the learning web and the speaking part is a breeze. Be prepared and you'll do fine.

I was in his hybrid class & we only met once a week. He explained everything the first tiem then on test day he went over everything for like an hour. Posted everything on the web so if you didnt go to class you could still get everything. I had spanish in high school so this was very easy. After you seen one test you know what to expect on all.

All you gotta do is take the online quizzes over and over til you make a 100 and fill in all the blanks in the exercise book to get bonus points for every test and the final. He drops youre lowest test grade and dosnt go nuts if youre late or miss class. Nice guy trys to help all you gotta do is do all the work and try.

SO EASY. THIS IS THE SPANISH TEACHER TO TAKE. I DIDNT EVEN GO TO CLASS THE WHOLE SEMESTER JUST CAME IN FOR THE FINAL AND MADE AN A. USUALLY VERY FRIENDLY

Mr castro staid after class every day to answer questinos and his online stuff was realy helpful. I had to study but not to much. He would answer your questions in english; i had another proff who only answered if you asked questions in spanish but, like, if your lost how can you ask the question in spanish?

lame jokes but he knows what hes talking about.. teaches straight out of the workbook..easy 4 credit class :) dont mind talking spanish II with him

V helpful. Bonus points made all the difference. Wouldnt have made it without.

He's a nice & easy teacher, but he rambles A LOT. He will tell you how to pronounce one word a million diff ways, which is annoying and confusing. You have to do all of the workbook/lab manual stuff too. I think you'd only like this class if you were genuinely interested in learning Spanish, which I definitely am not.. I hated this class...

hes the kindist and most pacient profesor ive had. he stay after class every time to anser questions. he doesnt get mad if you miss a few classes and you dont have to bring in excuses if your child is sick and you cant make it to class some day. i like he very mych.

tOOK ONLINE. RESPONDS TO EMAILS. BUT OVERALL TESTS ARE HARD IF U DONT KNW SPANISH. EVERYTHING IS WRITTEN AND FILL IN THE BLANK! MUST TRAVEL TO CAMPU FOR MIDTERM AND FINAL. BUT HES NICE...I GOT AN A BUT THEN AGAIN, I KNOW SPANISH SO KEEP THAT I MIND. TXT BOOK A MUST!

Professor Crasto makes the environment very comfortable 2 lrn. Goes over tngs that r goin 2 be on test quite well tho some things may pop up. Plus if u do online work u get an extra 12 points to ur final grade! so u can go from c to b easily. No he's not going to run bhind u, we r adults! will take him for all my span classes

Short answer? Take this guys class. Slightly longer answer? Do the online work and ask questions in class. He takes time to answer your questions. Class doesn't run on forver because you dont get a grade for coming to class. Bring your laptop and do the online work during class and he'll help you with the online work. No surprises on test.

ok like all you hed to do was reed the sylabus and do the online stuff and the test was the same stuff so i got a a in the class and im so glad i took this class cause we didnt have to go on friday but we just did online stuff on fridays so i could go out of town on weekends wish alll my classes didnt have friday

Soooo...test were on one day and the next class eveeybody got there tests back. Thats freakin awesome. Lotsa teachers take 1 or 2 weeks to get our tests back. Go on test day and the next and youll know all you need

online class: simple, straightforward syllabus. you do the work on your own and if you need help, ask and hell answer you pretty quick. book website is where you do all the work. no wasted time, just the work.

Crasto was the easiest professor I've had. I had him at 8am and still made an A with little effort. He's pretty funny and makes the grammar stuff more interesting than it would have been. All you have to do is turn in the workbook pages by the end of semester and he'll give you full credit. Tests were easy, the instructions were online beforehand.

Castro's online class is "do it yourself" work as fast as you can just use the book watch the vidoes figure it out then go on to the next thing. you don't have to wait for everybody else in the class to do their work or post stupid group discussion questions you just go at your own pace. oh yeah you gotta go a couple times to take tests at campus

just finished spanish 2 online and it was just like the syllabus said, you do the online work quick as you can, record stuff, watch videos, take quizzes, and your done. it was a lotta work but i alwasy knew exactly what i was supposed to do and i could see all my grades on the website and if i got something wrong he would tell me

This class was online and was a very easy A. No mid-term/ final average of chapter work grades. Must take this class online...

It was a tough class, but if you are self sufficient, you should be fine. Do not let these other reviews scare you of professor Crasto. When I needed help because I was confused, I emailed him not expecting a response, he answered me back very quickly and gave me great advice. Do not expect him to hold your hand through this course use your brain.

If Spanish isn' your first language , then it will be difficult, but if you work for it, you can do it. Finals are usually in person but this time it was online due to the pandemic, but even then, you cant find the answers online cause the paper is unique. There is too much homework like 100 activities per chapter, so dont do things last minute.

All lessons are on VHL. Work is simple if you pay attention to the lessons and take notes or already know Spanish. Gives good feedback when answering paragraphs or listening to audio recordings. I would take him again if I needed too. Due dates are reasonable, so don't be worried to much by the "assignment" count. Attend lectures if you need help!