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 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 4. The FOURTH segment of the comprehensive Beginner level five-course series designed for Spanish beginners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Beginner 4 level description:
This is the perfect course for individuals who have either completed our Spanish Beginner 3 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 4:
COMMUNICATION: Talking about habits, expressing frequency, asking for and giving the time, learning how to get by in bars and restaurants, asking for and giving information about food, talking about eating habits.
GRAMMAR: the presente de indicativo of irregular verbs, pronominal verbs, yo también / yo tampoco/ yo si/ yo no, primero/después/luego, the verbs poner and traer, direct object pronouns (lo, la, los, las), uses of de and con.
VOCABULARY: Days of the week, times of day, daily activities, food, ways of cooking, utensils and recipients, typical dishes in Spain and Latin America.
PHONETICS: intonation: narration and enumeration, the che and the jota.
Next level: Spanish Beginner 5.
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 INTERMEDIATE 2. The SECOND segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Intermediate 2 level description:
Spanish Intermediate 2 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Intermediate 1 or possess a similar level of proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 2:
COMMUNICATION: Express prohibition, express obligation, express impersonality, talk about habits, talk in the present tense, summarize the plot of a book or movie, tell anecdontes, tell jokes.
GRAMMAR: lo normal / lo habitual / lo raro es + infitive, soler + infinitive, quantifiers, todo el mundo / la mayoria (de...) / muchos / algunos..., es obligario / está prohibido / está permitido + infinitive, se prohíbe/n / se permite/n + noun, some connectors to relate: (y) entonces / en aquel momento, al final, de repente,de pronto etc., porque, como, aunque, sin embargo, the form and usees of the pronouns OD and OI.
VOCABULARY: Social customs, work and school, narrative genres (film, television, novels), vocabulary of movies and television.
Next level: Spanish Intermediate 3.