VENTURE OUT INTO SPANISH | A1 Beginners' course
This is the perfect course for those who have never dared into the lands of Spanish language or have just set off on their journey. Armed with the sword of self-confidence and me as your faithful squire, we’ll beat the dragons that guard the doors of Learning Success and you’ll become a member of the Argentinian Spanish Fellowship.
Now, a bit more seriously, this course is intended to give you, as a beginner, a clear understanding of basic aspects of Spanish and to provide you with relevant functions based on a communicative approach to language learning. What is a communicative approach? Well, it’s basically not looking at language as a linguist but rather as a language user. You don’t need to know how a car works in order to drive one, do you?
On this structured course, the goal is to get you confident and initiated in the lifelong and rewarding quest of learning a language.
In my experience in teaching beginner students, it is best if you can keep a twice a week schedule for best results, but sometimes that’s not possible. It all depends on your availability, of course.
There is a 5 and 10 lessons package at a discount for this course.
All package purchases include a compressed folder with resources you can explore on your own to complement your learning journey.
Please, message me in case I’ve left your question unanswered.
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HOW TO BOOK A LESSON?
- Choose either a single lesson or a package from the dropdown menu.
- Proceed to PayPal checkout.
- Once you payment is confirmed, you’ll be redirected to a confirmation page where you’ll be able to schedule your lesson/s (shown in your local time).
- Done! All set to meet for our lesson.
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Main topics in the study plan:
Greet and reply to a greeting | Introduce someone | React to being introduced
Formulas
Times of the day
Social conventions (shaking hands, kissing, hugging)
Evacuate doubts | Ask for help in class
Classroom situations (meaning, pronunciation, spelling, repetition, keyboard shortcuts)
Answer personal questions (first name, last name, age, date of birth, country, nationality, work, email, telephone)
Closed and open ended questions
Interrogative pronouns | Cómo/ Cuál/ Cuántos/Dónde/De dónde/Qué/A qué/
Question marks in Spanish | Tilde in interrogatives
Formulas for each item | verbos ser/llamarse/tener/trabajar/estudiar
Tú vs Vos | 2nd person singular
Gender of nouns (professions)
Spelling (alphabet and sounds)
Months of the year
Cardinal numbers 1-31
Introduce yourself (name, surname, age, date of birth, country, nationality, job)
Talk about others
The family
Cardinal numbers 1-99
Friendship
Interrogative pronoun: Quién
Possessives | Possessive with de
Personal pronouns
Presentation verbs 3rd person singular
Periphrasis estar + gerunds -ar / -er / -ir (present continuous)
Describe the city where you live
There is/isn’t | are/aren’t
Adjectives
Comparatives
Superlatives: Lo que +/- me gusta
Talk about likes/dislikes
Verb gustar
Graduation: love, like a lot, don’t like at all
Talk about the weather
Mi SN favorito es…
Ask for tastes: open/closed ended questions
Verb preferir
Talk about the routine in the morning
Reflexive verbs
Discourse markers
Breakfast vocabulary | The mate
Talk about the weekly routine
Weekdays
Present indicative – Regular and irregular verbs
Express frequency: siempre, nunca, casi siempre, casi nunca, a veces.
Talk about yesterday
Indefinite past tense
Regular verbs + ir | estar | hacer
Talk about the weekend
Free time activities
The weekend in Argentina
Give and ask for the time / schedules
Meals of the day
Usual hours (banks, office, school)
Frequency (public transport)
Describe aspect
Physical description adjectives
Agreement rules (gender and number)
Modifiers | Un poco, Bastante, Muy, No muy
Conjunction “y”
Describe character
Character adjectives
Learn and talk about South America
Countries
Nationalities and Languages | Gender
Cardinal points
Verbs ser / estar 3rd person
Adjectives
Climate
Evacuate doubts | Ask for help
Excuse me / Please / Thank you
Ask for information
Vocabulary The city
Ask for existence – ¿Hay algún/un/una + SN + cerca de…?
Ask for directions – ¿Dónde está/queda + SN?
Directions: have to
Talk about skills
Verb saber | Sé/No sé + inf | saber vs conocer
Verb poder | Puedo/No puedo + inf
Ask for permission
Puedo + inf?
Shopping
Shops in town
Question: Cuánto cuesta
Demonstrative pronouns
Cardinal numbers +100
Order at a restaurant
Food vocabulary
Direct Object pronouns
BOOK YOUR LESSON!
HOW TO BOOK A LESSON?
- Choose either a single lesson or a package from the dropdown menu.
- Proceed to PayPal checkout.
- Once you payment is confirmed, you’ll be redirected to a confirmation page where you’ll be able to schedule your lesson/s shown in your local time).
- Done! All set to meet for our lesson.