Spanish Made Simple: Advanced Spanish

Explore how definite articles los and la mark days, body parts, and refer back to nouns, and how indefinite uno/una and unos/unas adapt to stressed a nouns and comparison phrases.

Practice session 1 guides advanced Spanish learners through timed speaking drills: say sentences aloud within five seconds, repeat after the instructor, and practice phrases with gender, numbers, and basic verbs.

Learn to recognize false cognates—words that look similar to English but have different meanings—through examples like ActewAGL and Menti, ambassador, carpet, and Exito, with a worksheet for practice.

Explore Spanish ordinal numbers from primero to tercero, including rules for dropping el before masculine nouns and placing ordinals before or after nouns, plus common fractions.

Practice session reinforces rapid recall and pronunciation of Spanish phrases through flash prompts, with examples like 'te puedo preguntar algo' and 'quieres salir a una cita'.

Explore the Spanish prepositions hasta, hacia, and entre, detailing their time, place, and quantity uses, including until, as late as, as far as up to, and between.

Master con, contra, and sin in Spanish, with examples using conmigo and contigo, explore objects of the preposition, and practice common verbs following these prepositions.

Explore aquí, acá, allí, and allá with estar and motion verbs, as in aquí estoy. Learn the degree adverbs muy, mucho, and tanto, plus tan for adjectives.

Practice session 3 guides you through common Spanish phrases for everyday conversation, from directions and time to asking questions, expressing desires, and describing people and prices.

Learn Spanish object of preposition pronouns, which mostly mirror subject pronouns except for me; with con, they form conmigo and contigo.

Explore Spanish suffixes with special meanings, including augmentatives and diminutives, and suffixes indicating containment, measure, and places of sale, with practical examples from everyday words.

Learn how descriptive adjectives in Spanish usually come after the noun, with exceptions for inseparable characteristics, color expressions, and meaning changes when placed before versus after the noun.

Practice session 4 guides learners through forming practical Spanish phrases, switching between informal and formal you, using suffixes for size and duration, and handling negation and preferences in everyday scenarios.

Explore Spanish possessive adjectives and pronouns, using the short forms for adjectives and long forms with definite articles (el, la, los, las), matching gender and number.

Discover how common adjectives in Spanish morph for emphasis and position, including tan before bonita to intensify exclamations, gran before singular nouns, and santo or santa before names.

Explore the Spanish preposition a and its special uses after verbs of learning, beginning, and teaching, including by hand and by machine expressions, and its behavior with infinitives.

Learn the most common subordinate conjunctions and when to use them, using a rule: if the following verb is conjugated, use a conjunction; otherwise, a preposition, and note subjunctive triggers.

Practice session 6 guides learners through spoken Spanish drills with everyday phrases, including describing sounds, tastes, and actions, and notes the upcoming subjunctive content.

Learn what the Spanish subjunctive mood is and how it contrasts with the indicative to express desires, doubts, and possibilities, and note the four conjugations.

Form the Spanish past subjunctive from the third-person plural of the past preterite by dropping -ron and adding endings, with two interchangeable sets and a focus on the left set.

Explore the present and past subjunctive of haber, learn triggers for the subjunctive, and see examples using espera (to hope) in context.

This lesson reveals how the subjunctive follows verbs expressing emotion, mental action, or negation, with triggers like want, hope, doubt, fear, and deny, plus advise, suggest, or tell.

Practice session reinforces forming and translating Spanish phrases, including requests, doubts, and obligations, with examples like 'I don't want to say it' and 'it's important that they visit their parents.'

Learn how Spanish forms positive and negative commands by dropping ar and er/ir endings, and note direct object pronoun placement and lack of nosotros or yo forms.

Learn how Spanish indirect object pronouns differ from direct objects, noting gender does not affect them, and master their placement with conjugated and non-conjugated verbs when used together.

Conclude your Spanish study by recognizing the subjunctive, the command form, and other nuances. Review these lessons and provide feedback to help future students choose this course.