This course is ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish Beginner 5 level or similar. Here's an overview of the topics covered in High Beginner 1:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about habits and difficulties, duration, make recommendations, describe feelings, motivation, talk and relate past events.
GRAMMAR: Present of regular verbs and irregular verbs, reflexive verbs, form and use of the preterit, markers to express the past, preposition desde, durante y hasta.
VOCABULARY: sentirse ridículo/-a, seguro/-a, inseguro/-a, professions, alphabet, movies, biographies.
This course is ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish High Beginner 1 level or similar. Here's an overview of the topics covered in High Beginner 2:
COMMUNICATION: Express likes and preferences, coincidence, location of objects, describe a house and objects, Feel comfortable in daily situations: invitations, introductions, greetings and goodbyes, ask for things, actions and favors, ask and give permission, give excuses and justify.
GRAMMAR: Comparatives, possessive pronouns, prepositions of location, possessive pronouns, uses of ser and estar, verbs gustar, encantar, preferir, the gerund (regular and irregular forms), estar+gerund, conditional.
VOCABULARY: Types of houses, parts of the house and materials, Greetings, verbs of courtesy: poder, importar, ayudar, poner, dar, dejar and prestar.
This course is ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish High Beginner 4 level or similar. Here's an overview of the topics covered in High Beginner 5:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about habits and circumstances of the past, locate actions in the past and in the present, argue and debate, tell an event in the past, sequence actions, express emotions.
GRAMMAR: Imperfect tense, ya no/todavía, temporary markers for the past, temporary markers for the present, irregular forms for the preterit, contrast between the preterit and the imperfect, forms of the past of estar +gerund, temporary markers to tell stories
VOCABULARY: Historical events, emotions. SPANISH BEGINNER 3. The THIRD segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 3 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 2 course or similar. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 3:
COMMUNICATION: Identifying items, expressing needs, buying in shops, asking for products, asking about prices, etc., talking about preferences, talking about physical appearance and personality, expressing and comparing likes, dislikes and interests, asking about likes and dislikes, talking about personal relationships.
GRAMMAR: demonstratives: este/esta/estos/estas, esto, el/la/los + adjective, que + noun, cuál/cuáles, tener que + infinitive, the verbs ir and preferir, the verb gustar, quantifiers (muy, bastante, un poco), possessives, también/tampoco, diacritical accents.
VOCABULARY: numbers over 100, colours, clothes and accessories, objects in daily use, uses of the verb llevar, combinations with the verb ir, family, personality adjectives, music.
PHONETICS: the erre, intonation in questions.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 4.
SPANISH BEGINNER 2. The SECOND segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 2 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 1 course or have some minimal experience with the Spanish language. We'll help you build upon your existing knowledge and skills to further develop your Spanish proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 2:
COMMUNICATION: Expressing intentions, explaining the motivations for what you do, talking about what you do in different languages, describing places, expressing existence and location, talking about climate and the weather.
GRAMMAR: Gender, definite articles (el, la, los, las) and indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas), the presente de indicativo, regular verbs ending in -ar, -er, -ir, uses of por, para and porque, uses of hay, the verb estar, the superlative, quantifiers: muy, mucho/mucha/muchos/muchas, qué, cuál, cuáles, cuántos/cuántas, dónde, cómo.
VOCABULARY: Languages, activities in language class, leisure activities, climate and the weather, geography, information about countries, cardinal points, seasons.
PHONETICS: Connectors, accentuation.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 3.