Basic Spanish Course
Practical Introduction to Spanish and Basic Grammar
What you'll learn
- Spanish basic lessons including grammar explanations, examples and exercises
- Greetings, Numbers, the Time, the Date, Introducing Yourself, Interrogative Pronouns and Demonstratives
- The Present Tense of Indicative
- Small Practice Test
Course content
9 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 21m total length
Requirements
- No previous knowledge is required
- I explain everything from zero
Description
Explanations on grammar and vocabulary for basic Spanish. The course content includes the following topics:
Lesson 1: Greetings
· How to say hello or goodbye at the different times of the day
· Expressions used in Spanish to be polite
Lesson 2: The Numbers
How to tell and spell the numbers in Spanish from zero to 1 million.
Lesson 3: The Time
How to tell the time in Spanish.
Lesson 4: The Date
· How to say the days of the week
· How to say the seasons of the year
· How to say the months of the year
· Expressions of time
· Ordinal numbers
· How to put all the above information together to tell the date in full sentences
Lesson 5: How to introduce yourself
· Basic phrases in Spanish to introduce yourself: questions and answers
· The Alphabet in Spanish
· Nationalities: European countries and languages
Lesson 6: Interrogative pronouns
· The interrogative pronouns in Spanish (question words)
· How to create questions in Spanish without interrogative pronouns
· Definite articles in Spanish ("the")
· Indefinite articles in Spanish ("a, an")
Lesson 7: The Demonstratives
· The demonstrative adjectives and pronouns in Spanish ("this, that" - "these, those")
· Transitive and Intransitive verbs (verbs with or without a Direct Object)
· Indeterminate Numerals in Spanish (some, few, many...)
· Revision exercise
Lesson 8: The Present Tense
The present tense is the verbal tense that tells us WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW.
Conjugation of the present tense in French for the different verb endings with examples of regular and irregular verbs and a practice exercise.
* Dialogue: "El Partido"
Practice dialogue with questions, translation, and commentary.
Test with Answers
Test your skills - did you learn the course successfully?
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn an introduction to Spanish from a qualified teacher
- I explain everything with examples and with the Socratic Method: teaching from experience