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.
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 INTERMEDIATE 5. The FIRTH segment of the comprehensive Intermediate level five-course series designed for adult learners.
An all-adults class.
Materials are not included in tuition.
Intermediate 5 level description:
Spanish Intermediate 5 is an ideal course for those who have completed Spanish Intermediate 4 or possess a similar level of proficiency.
Here's an overview of the topics covered in Intermediate 5:
COMMUNICATION: Describe the characteristics and functioning of something, give opinions about objects, evaluate situations and facts, comment on actions and behaviors, make hypotheses and conjectures, narrate mysterious events, and express degrees of certainty.
GRAMMAR: Superlatives ending in -ísimo/-a/-os/-as, some modifiers of adjectives: excesivamente, demasiado, exclamatory phrases: ¡qué...!, ¡qué... tan/mas...!, relative clauses with prepositions, the use of the indicative and subjunctive in relative clauses, me parece bien/mal/injusto/ilógico...que + the present subjunctive, está bien /mal que + the present subjunctive, the conditional, lo de + infinitive/noun, some uses of the simple future and the conditional, constructions in the indicative and subjunctive to express different degrees of certainty.
VOCABULARY: Vocabulary to describe objects (material forms), vocabulary to evaluate the design of objects, environment, solidarity, creer algo/creerse algo/creer en algo, mysterious events and paranormal phenomena, psychology, science.
Next level: Spanish High Intermediate 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.