SPANISH BEGINNER 5. The FIFTH segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Beginner 5 level description:

This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 4 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 5:

COMMUNICATION: Discover villages, neighbourhoods and cities, talk about what you like the most about a place, ask for and give directions, express tastes and highlight aspects, talking about past experiences, talking about skills and abilities, talking about people’s strengths and weaknesses.

GRAMMAR: quantifiers (algún, ningún, mucho…), prepositions and adverbs of place (a, en, al lado de lejos, cerca…), the pretérito perfecto, saber + infinitive, poder + infinitive.

VOCABULARY: services and places in cities, adjectives to discover neighbourhoods and cities, professions, personality adjectives, skills and abilities, quantifiers.

PHONETICS: dipthongs, pronunciation of /p/, /t/, /k/

Next level: Spanish High Beginner 1.

SPANISH BEGINNER 5. The FIFTH segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Beginner 5 level description:

This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 4 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 5:

COMMUNICATION: Discover villages, neighbourhoods and cities, talk about what you like the most about a place, ask for and give directions, express tastes and highlight aspects, talking about past experiences, talking about skills and abilities, talking about people’s strengths and weaknesses.

GRAMMAR: quantifiers (algún, ningún, mucho…), prepositions and adverbs of place (a, en, al lado de lejos, cerca…), the pretérito perfecto, saber + infinitive, poder + infinitive.

VOCABULARY: services and places in cities, adjectives to discover neighbourhoods and cities, professions, personality adjectives, skills and abilities, quantifiers.

PHONETICS: dipthongs, pronunciation of /p/, /t/, /k/

Next level: Spanish High Beginner 1.

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.

SPANISH INTERMEDIATE 4. The FOURTH segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.

An all-adults class.

Materials are not included in tuition.

Intermediate 4 level description:

Spanish Intermediate 4 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Intermediate 3 or possess a similar level of proficiency.

Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 4:

COMMUNICATION: Getting by on the phone taking a leaving messages, ordering and transmitting orders and requests, resources to tell anecdotes, reources to show interest when listening to a story, talk about causes and consequences, express interests and feelings, talk about relationships between people, show disagreement , soften an expression of disagreement, counterargument.

GRAMMAR: Indirect speech: me ha dicho que.../ me ha pedido que.../ me ha preguntado si.../ me ha preguntado cuándo/dónde/por qué..., some connectors to talk about causes and consequences: como, poque, así que, de modo que, etc., the preterite pluperfect indicative, combine the tenses of the past in a story (present perfect, past perfect, preteterite, imperfect), me fascina/me encanta/odio/no aguanto...que + subjunctive, me fascina/n /me encanta/n /odio/ no aguanto... + subjuctive/infinitive.

VOCABULARY: Verbs that summarize the intention of a message (preguntar, recomendar, etc), types of messages (letter, mobile message, email, etc.), travel, types of turism, verbs to express interests, feelings and sensations, manias, resources to show disagreement, adjectives to describe people's character.

Next level: Spanish Intermediate 5.