Spanish (Level 1 Beginners)

Would you like to start learning a new language?  Why not Spanish, spoken on four continents and more than 20 countries.  Come to join us in this fantastic introduction and enter the world of Spanish culture. This is an introductory level course.  Follow-on courses levels 2 - 4.5 are also available. Conversation Level 5 is a higher level class for those who wish to develop fluency in Spanish.

We also offer Spanish for Travellers courses in weekend or weeknight formats. These focus on the language of travel as this Spanish Beginners course does not teach travel vocabulary and phraseology. Note that this course requires some home study as well as classroom sessions.

Course outline

During this course, you will study:

• Greeting people and saying good-bye
• Giving your name and asking others' names
• Learn about differences in greetings in Latin America and Spain
• Professions and occupations
• Nationalities and languages you speak
• Calendar, numbers, days of week and months
• Time - asking the time
• Household matters
• Family and describing them

Expected learning outcomes

On completion of this course we expect that you will be able to speak some basic Spanish, remember some essential vocab, be starting to learn some simple grammar, have the basics of pronunciation, and have some idea of Spanish culture and traditions. 

The amount of revision undertaken between classes can have a large influence on the final outcome for individuals. Each week, the course will build upon itself. We ask students to revise material between classes. In addition, a short homework exercise is usually set. 

More information about our Spanish language programme:

• Spanish for Travellers: A ''survival'' language course with essential vocab and phrases for those travelling to a Spanish-speaking country - available as a 12 hour evening course or a 7 hour weekend course. Also suitable for those who have already studied Spanish who wish to learn and practise the vocab of travel.  
• Level 1: Spanish Beginners. This course introduces the basics on grammar, pronunciation and culture. (it does not cover travel vocabulary)
• Level 2: Building on Beginners, this course develops grammar, learning more verbs (still present tense), growing vocabulary, increasing confidence with listening, speaking and responding to questions. Introduction of present continuous tense and reflexive verbs.
• Level 3: The focus of this course is learning about the Past tenses (perfect and imperfect) in Spanish.
• Level 4: Introduction of future tense, conditional and subjunctive.
• Level 4.5: This course will focus on preparing students to a full immersion of Spanish before jumping to Spanish Conversational (Level 5).
• Level 5: Spanish Conversation: To develop fluency, improve pronunciation and learn advanced tenses and modes. For those who have completed Levels 1 - 4 or those who have learnt to speak Spanish whilst travelling and wish to continue learning
• Spanish Master Your Prepositions: An extra workshop for all levels of Spanish learners who are finding Spanish prepositions tricky.