
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Master Spanish reflexive pronouns and their role among personal and subject pronouns, including placement before the verb, use in negative sentences, and reflexive versus non reflexive verbs.
Learn how prepositional pronouns accompany a preposition and must precede it, memorize me and de, and use conmigo or contigo in common constructions.
Explore DOP and IOP pronouns and their use, compare direct and indirect objects to English, and examine reflexive, passive, impersonal, and reciprocal se constructions.
Learn the imperative mood for present tense commands, with regular verb endings and notable irregular forms from Latin, and practice pronoun attachment for affirmative and negative commands.
Master the simple conditional in the indicative mood, learn its endings attached to the infinitive, compare with the future, and explore its relationship to the past subjunctive and compound tenses.
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.