This course is ideal for individuals who have completed Spanish High Beginner 3 level or similar. Here's an overview of the topics covered in High Beginner 4:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about experiences and value them, value people and things, express desire to do something, give advice, talk about feelings, describe pain and symptoms.
GRAMMAR: Uses of the preterit perfect and preterite, me/te/le/no/os/les gustaría + indefinite, exclamative sentences, uses of the verbs ser and estar, verb doler, form and some uses of the affirmative imperative.
VOCABULARY: Parecer, caer bien/mal, pasárselo bien/mal, places of interest and cultural offers, parts of the body, feelings, illness and symptoms, trips, historical eras, life cycles,
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.
SPANISH BEGINNER 1. The FIRST segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 1 level description:
This course is ideal for individuals who have never studied Spanish before or those who wish to start from scratch. Throughout this level, you will acquire fundamental language skills and knowledge.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Beginner 1:
COMMUNICATION: Saying hello and goodbye, in the classroom, numbers from 1 to 10, the alphabet, resources to develop your learning abilities in Spanish class, ask for and give personal information, saying hello and goodbye.
GRAMMAR: Gender in nationalities and professions, the verbs ser, tener and llamarse, personal pronouns.
VOCABULARY: Numbers, nationalities, professions.
PHONETICS: Intonation of partial questions and answers.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 2.
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 INTERMEDIATE 1. The FIRST segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Intermediate 1 level description:
Spanish Intermediate 1 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish High Beginner 5 or possess a similar level of proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 1:
COMMUNICATION: Talk about habits in the present, talk about past experiences, locate an action in time, talk about the future, express condition, formulate a hypothesis about the future.
GRAMMAR: Present perfect and preterite, periphrasis: empezar a + infinitive/acabar de + infinitive/terminar de + infinitive/terminar de + infinitive / volver a + infinitive / dejar de + intifnitive / lleva + gerund / seguir +gerund, desde/desde que / desde hace. , Si + present, future, some uses of the future, seguramente/seguro que/supongo que + future, temporary markers to talk about future,
VOCABULARY: Work, facts regarding someone’s life, world problems, predictions about the future.
Next level: Spanish Intermediate 2.