Trusted teacherA1 level Spanish course (based on DELE qualifications): beginners levelTranslate this text using Google Translate.
A1 level Spanish course (based on DELE qualifications): beginners levelTranslate this text using Google Translate.
Content of the A1 Spanish full course based on the official curriculum of Cervantes.
For this class, you do not need any knowledge of Spanish. From the very start, we will start to speak as much Spanish as possible. You can use English to express yourself at first, and through the course, you will learn how to express needs, use and understand common expressions, and simple sentences used to satisfy your everyday needs.
This a 60 hours, 1 hour per class. It includes all the knowledge you will need to pass a DELE test.
*Disclaimer: you do not have to purchase all 60 hours, but for all A1 level to be considered complete, you must master all of its content. However, if you consider that you already have some of this knowledge, the course can adapt to what you need to learn only.
What you will learn to say in Spanish:
• Identify, describe, and compare: people, places, objects.
• Express why you want to learn Spanish.
• Talk about your day-to-day activities and things you are doing in the present.
• Opinions: express and ask opinions about someone or something; express agreement or disagreement; confirm and deny what others say.
• Knowledge: be able to say if you know or do not know about something.
• Feelings, desires, preferences: express and ask about likes, desires, preferences, need, and wishes.
• Petitions: ask for something in a public establishment (be able to buy things from a store); ask for the price of products.
• Socialize greetings and goodbyes; introductions, meeting someone for the first time, introducing someone else; say thanks and congratulations.
• Oral communication: be able to say that you do not understand something; ask someone to repeat what they said; check if you understood something well; spell out and ask for a word to be spelled out; ask for something to be written down; ask the meaning of a word or expression; ask someone to talk slower, faster or louder.
• What you will learn about Spanish grammar (detailed):
1. The alphabet.
2. Pronunciation: intonation (how Spanish sounds when we enunciate, negate and interrogate); accentuation and rhythm, syllables; how to use upper case and lower case; recognize the main punctuation signs.
3. Nouns: Gender: identify and differentiate feminine and masculine nouns (referred to people). Number: form plurals.
4. Articles: general uses or definite and indefinite articles. When to say and not to say an article.
5. Adjectives: qualifying adjectives (some, most, all, none, occasionally, sometimes, now and again, usually, always, never, I guess, I think, I know, etc); demonym; gender and number; comparatives (the best, the worst, etc).
6. Personal pronouns: stressed and unstressed forms; how to use them next to nouns and direct objects; learn to recognize the direct object.
7. Demonstrative pronouns: how to identify and point at objects.
8. Possessives: stressed and unstressed forms; general uses; when do we use article and possessives.
9. Quantitative: how much is there of something.
10. Interrogatives: how to ask common questions (qué, cuál, quién, etc).
11. Numerals: ordinals and cardinals; weight and common measurements.
12. How to use the word “que” (a common relative).
13. Verbs: uses of the verb to be (Ser y Estar); verbs to like and to appear; common reflexive verbs; introduction to verbal periphrasis (tener que, ir a, querer, poder, necesitar). Impersonal use of the verb Haber.
14. Verb tenses: simple present tense of common regular and irregular verbs; using the present tense as an imperative.
15. Adverbs: quantity, affirmation, negation, mode, time, and place.
16. Prepositions: a, de, para, en, con, etc.
17. Time references: Indicators of the present. Hours, days of the week, months, dates, seasons of the year.
18. Spatial references.
19. The order of a sentence: nouns and verbs.
20. Sentence structures: declarative sentences, interrogative sentences, comparative sentences, casual sentences.
21. Most common abbreviations.