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.
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.
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.
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.