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Basics of phonetics: vowel and consonant sounds, reading rules and stress placement

Basic nouns, demonstrative pronouns (esto, eso) and the linking verb es

Colors, clothes, school supplies and the rules of adjective–noun agreement

The structure of a simple Spanish sentence, inversion in questions and the negative particle no

The difference between a permanent quality (ser) and a temporary state/location (estar), basic prepositions

Learn to describe the presence of objects in space and place adjectives correctly

Forming the plural, the articles los/las, counting up to 5 and questions with cuánto

Rules of the zero article (with numerals and uncountable substances), describing a room

Present tense of -ar verbs. Talking about your profession, job and routine

Learn to tell the time and meet the first stem-changing verb (e→ie)

Morning rituals, daily routine and the use of reflexive pronouns (me, te, se)

-er verbs, replacing cases with the Spanish prepositions de and a, the contracted article del

-ir verbs, the essential verb tener (to have), days of the week and the difference between “much/many” and “very”

Give orders and requests ("Do it!"), learn the verb querer (to want/to love)

Express possession (my, your, his) and learn the irregular verbs salir, oír, venir

Make plans for the future (“I am going to...”), reinforce the verbs ser, poner, traer

Your first encounter with the past! Talk about regular actions and describe a setting

Conjugation of the main exceptions (ser, ir, ver) in the past and summary tense tables

Ask complex questions (“With whom?”, “About what?”) and learn to describe a person’s appearance in detail

Direct and indirect objects (me, you, him, her). The verbs to be able to, to know (a fact), to be acquainted with

Build generalized phrases with the particle se (“people say here”) and fine-tune adjective agreement

Talk about the recent past and life experience. The auxiliary verb haber and counting up to 100

Participles in -ido, all the meanings of the word todo (all, every) and articles with country names

Learn to say “us”, “you”, “them” (nos, os, los, las) and conjugate the verbs ver, encontrar, pedir

Build elegant complex sentences (“the one who”) and learn the verb decir (to say)

Talk about completed, one-time actions in the past (“yesterday I met”). The article for abstractions

The past tense of the verbs estar, dar, ver, tener. Learn to build phrases like “I don’t know anything”

Complete a basic story in the past. Summary tables of all 4 tenses for correct speech

Pronoun combinations (se lo, te la). Make words endearing with the suffixes -ito and -illo

Basic rules for reporting speech (“He said that he was reading”) and the Spanish gerund

All the facets of the word mismo (oneself, the same). The past tense of “to go” and the construction quedar + adjective

Build a chronology in the past (done before something happened). Compare objects (“better than”)

Special comparative forms and the suffix -ísimo (“most delicious”). Complex comparative constructions

The literary past (“as soon as he left...”) and the easy formation of adverbs with the suffix -mente

Talk about habits (soler), replace nouns with el de... and analyze the words poco/solo

The full Future tense (Futuro Simple) for regular and irregular verbs (“I will be able to”, “I will do”)

Emphasize the duration of an action (“I am reading right now”). The passive voice with ser and estar

Learn to speak concisely: “my house is better than yours” (without repetition). The forms mío, tuyo, suyo

The completed future and guesses about the past (“he probably got lost”). The elegant phrase al + infinitivo

Summary tables of all 8 Indicativo tenses. The forms hay / hay que (obligation) in all tenses

The main irregular verbs in all 8 tenses. Useful periphrases acabar de and dejar de

The final rules for choosing between ser, estar and hay. Change of meaning (es bueno / está bueno)

Avoid ambiguities in speech. Study the 7 meanings of the preposition por and the phrase volver a

Introduction to the Presente de subjuntivo. Express will, wishes and orders. The full Imperativo

Subjuntivo for -er/-ir verbs, negative commands (“don’t drink!”) and the conjunction para que

Apply the Subjuntivo to hacer, decir, ir. The constructions “it is necessary that” and the phrase es que...

Subjuntivo for hypothetical objects ("whoever says") and the literary phrase he de (I must)

Systematizing the Subjuntivo: emotions, doubts, concessions (aunque) and the negation of opinion

Expressing the future tense through conjunctions. Strong wishes (“¡Ojalá!”). Spanish poetry

Contrasts, the 9 meanings of the preposition a, diminutives (-ito) and guesses in the future ("He is probably 20")

The Condicional simple (“I would do”) and a key topic: the sequence of tenses (the future in the past)

Unreal conditions (“if I knew”), the forms in -ara/-ase and the construction como + subjuntivo

The universal rule for forming the past subjunctive from the Indefinido for all verbs

Doubts about completed actions (haya hecho), the verb coger and the nuances of the word junto

Unreal conditions in the past (“if I had known, I would have come”) and grand summary tables

The climax of the course! The complete rules of tense shifting in the Indicativo and Subjuntivo for complex syntax

The construction sin + inf., the passive voice in all tenses and an exhaustive set of rules for using articles

The perfect reference: a full classification of stem-vowel changes (e>ie, o>ue, c>zc, etc.)

Inversions, enclisis and proclisis, the correct placement of two pronouns in a row. A text by Rubén Darío

Reading years and dates, arithmetic. Systematizing the 4 main Spanish prepositions: a, de, en, para

The final touch of spelling: punctuation marks, comma and colon rules, and syllable division

A basic dictionary for the Spanish courses on the site, indicating parts of speech and the gender of nouns