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Intensive Spanish Course
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(9 ratings)
70 students

Intensive Spanish Course

Synthesized content from basic to advanced
Created byGabriela Andrea Cardona Cortes
Last updated 9/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • Recognize the overall grammar structure of the language.
  • Correctly read any word in Spanish.
  • Use the general rules to conjugate verbs in all simple tenses (present, past, and future).
  • Identify the particularities of the language with respect to nouns, articles, adjectives, and pronouns.
  • Understand why only some words have an accent mark. As well as the proper way to use them in reading and writing.
  • Ask questions, agree or disagree with statements, express wishes, requests, suggestions, and give instructions in Spanish.
  • And much more…

Course content

2 sections • 29 lectures • 4h 59m total length

  • General introduction13:59

    Explore Spanish phonetics with clear vowels and consonants, set in Bogotá, Colombia, using a short story about a poor old woman to illustrate sounds and grammar.

  • Phonetics: (Alphabet and introduction to accents) part 114:06

    Master the basics of Spanish phonetics, including the 27-letter alphabet and five vowels. Learn pronunciation rules, exceptions, and the role of dieresis and the extra letter Ñ for accurate reading.

  • Phonetics: (Alphabet and introduction to accents) part 217:05

    Explore basics of Spanish phonetics, including the alphabet, soft and strong e sounds, and tilde marking stress. Practice pronunciation through reading aloud and imitation for Latin American Spanish in Colombia.

  • Word stress and accent marks*26:28

    This lesson refers to everything regarding Spanish accentuation and the proper usage of the "tilde".

    * It can be taken at any time during the course from now on. You can take it right now, or just skip it so you can watch its content at the end, or even at any point all along with the lessons. Simply when you find it appropriate. Nevertheless by this stage having clear all the pronunciation rules previously learned is a must, as they are crucial to understanding this matter in its entirety.


  • Introduction to verb tenses7:19
  • Personal pronouns: Subject pronouns6:04
  • Indicative mood: Present tense13:55

    At this point, we already started talking about Verb tenses and the Present is the first of them. That is why I highly recommend downloading the attached file of this lesson right away. It is a table where you will find a list with all the verbs that I employed as examples during the course. There you can easily visualize the tenses in which verbs are regular or irregular.

    I also suggest having on hand, along with this file, an online verb conjugator such as Reverso or Lingolia, for instance. By doing this, you will have already all the tools to continue in this learning process.


    Here some of the links of the conjugators I recommend:


    https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/conjugador

    https://conjugador.reverso.net/conjugacion-espanol.html

    https://www.elconjugador.com/esindex.php


    Finally, in case of any doubt regarding the table, do not hesitate to write to me.

  • Verbs "estar" and "ser"6:12
  • Present with gerund6:33

    Explore the Spanish gerund alongside the infinitive and participle, including formation rules with estar plus gerund, irregular gerunds like diciendo and durmiendo, and pronoun drop in Spanish.

  • Gender and number agreement: Nouns7:40
  • Gender and number agreement: Articles6:04

    Explore Spanish gender and number with definite articles el, la, los, las and the neutral lo; learn adjective agreement and indefinite articles una, un, unas, unos.

  • Gender and number agreement: Adjectives9:13

    Learn how Spanish adjectives agree in gender and number, with masculine -o and feminine -a endings, placement after noun or before for indefinites, and participle forms like abierto, escrito, roto.

  • Gender and number agreement: Pronouns4:18

    Master gender and number agreement in Spanish pronouns, focusing on subject pronouns and endings that reflect the subject’s gender, with practical examples and notes on usted and ustedes.

  • Indicative mood: Preterite / verbs “haber” and “tener”11:20

    Master the Spanish past: distinguish pretérito and imperfecto, learn regular endings and key irregulars in the preterite, and explore haber and tener as auxiliary, possession, and existence.

  • Indicative mood: Imperfect3:27

    Master the imperfect in the indicative by learning its endings for the second type of past and the shared endings across second and third conjugations, plus three irregular verbs.

  • Differences between Preterite and Imperfect8:43

    Explore the core differences between pretérito perfecto simple and pretérito imperfecto, highlighting completed actions versus ongoing or descriptive past, and learn quick cues for choosing the tense.

  • Break 17:32

    Explore magical realism, a twentieth-century Latin American movement blending reality and fantasy, where the fantastic is normal for characters, exemplified by Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Requirements

  • No prior knowledge of Spanish language required.
  • Basic information of concepts associated with types of words (adjectives, articles, nouns, etc.).
  • Curiosity about languages.

Description

In 29 lessons, you will learn the phonetic and grammatical foundations of the Spanish language.


The whole course was designed under the following framework:

Be SYNTHESIZED: In less than 5 hours you will comprehend the fundamentals (no downtimes, always maintaining a steady pace).

Be RATIONAL: You will find a strong coherent sequence between topics, constantly keeping a common thread so you do not get lost at any time.




By the end of this course, you'll be able to:


• Recognize, in terms of grammar, the macrostructure of the language.

• Read rightly any text in Spanish.

• Use the general rules to conjugate verbs in all simple tenses (present, past, and future).

• Ask questions, agree or disagree with statements, express wishes, requests, suggestions, and give instructions in Spanish.

• Identify the particularities of the language with respect to nouns, articles, adjectives, and pronouns.

• Understand why only some words have an accent mark. As well as the proper way to use it to read and write without errors.

• And much more…


In short, by the end of the lessons, you will have an overview of the language, a complete guideline that will lead you through the path of your autonomous learning process, and also, a wide vocabulary that overtakes the two hundred words, including verbs, nouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and more.

Definitely, this course will supply you with a huge communicative tool, as well as the confidence of being able to express yourself properly verbally and in writing.


Who this course is for:

  • Absolute beginners.
  • Learners with an intermediate or advanced level, who may need to reinforce their knowledge by brushing up basic topics (such as the Present tense of the Indicative) and clearing up possible doubts about the most challenging matters (such as the Subjunctive mood or the DOP and IOP pronouns).
  • Spanish teachers whose mother tongue is not this language, and want to implement a new way of pedagogy, based on the perspective of a native speaker.

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