Each Beginning-Intermediate 8-week course will help you build a strong foundation in Spanish, and allow you to communicate right away with increasing confidence.

Each 8-week course is unique, with different classes that allow you to approach our “high-frequency” (most used, most essential) Spanish vocabulary in different contexts so that you can truly acquire and master the language!

• Introduction: ¡Bienvenido al Curso!

  Get oriented and set up for success.

• Clase #1

  Start your course with a true beginner class.

• Clase #2

  Grow your skills and enjoy your next class.

• Clase #3

  Grow your skills and enjoy your next class.

• Clase #4

  You’ve reach an intermediate-beginner level!

• Clase #5

  Grow your skills and enjoy your next class.

• Clase #6

  Grow your skills and enjoy your next class.

• Clase #7

  Grow your skills and enjoy your next class.

• Clase #8

  You’ve reached an advanced-beginner level!

• What’s Next?

  Where does your journey go from here?

1. Introduction: ¡Bienvenido al Curso!

• Course Navigation

• Course Contents

• Learning Spanish: Tips & Tricks

2. Clase #1 highlights:

• haber, ser, estar, vivir, saber, salir, mirar

• giving personal descriptions, adjective placement

• story-telling and personal questions

• the preterite, imperfect, and past progressive tenses

• reflexive verbs and changes of physical state

• the future tense and declarative statements

3. Clase #2 highlights:

• using ir to talk about going places and going to do things

• using para with verbs to give reasons

• relating activities in order to give a personal account

• the past and present tense

• prepositional phrases of time: before, after

• incorporating time-related vocabulary into daily journal practice

4. Clase #3 highlights:

• querer + infinitivo

• imperfect and preterite tenses

• relating personal experiences

• talking about future plans and desires

• expressing desire along with action fulfillment

• daily journal practice

5. Clase #4 highlights:

• querer, mudarse, graduarse, empezar, terminar, tratar de, llegar

• talking about professions

• describing family structure and relationships

• describing life sequences of events

• listening and reading comprehension between multiple past and present tenses

• forming superlative statements

6. Clase #5 highlights:

• sabes que, tengo que, hay que, deja que, para que, y otras frases con “que”

• using diminutives in Spanish

• popular Spanish-language music

• cultural references found in popular music

• listening comprehension through music

• making and changing impressions based on meaning in context

7. Clase #6 highlights:

• me gusta, me interesa, me fascina

• describing changes in opinion with maturity and age

• the present and past tenses

• subject-object inversions

• continuing conversation with comments of agreement or disagreement

• talking about childhood experiences

8. Clase #7 highlights:

• jugoso, poner, meter, receta, cocinar

• food and ingredient-related vocabulary

• giving cooking instructions

• the present tense narration

• describing flavor, appeal, and taste

• talking about food and culture

9. Clase #8 highlights:

• seguir, seguir + infinitivo, después de

• listing items and actions in a sequence

• ordinal vocabulary

• the present tense and the gerund

• making future plans

• building confidence in conversation

10. The Journey Continues…

• Helpful Review

• Further Practice

• Next Steps on Your Language Journey