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Learning Spanish: How to Understand and Speak a New Language

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Overview

Experience the fastest and most direct way to learn Spanish-a beautiful and highly useful language-in this course that covers the curriculum of a first semester college course in Spanish.

Syllabus

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  • 01: Introduction to the Spanish Language
  • 02: Definite Articles and Nouns
  • 03: Subject Pronouns and the Verb Ser
  • 04: Regular -ar Verbs in the Present
  • 05: Indefinite Articles and Numbers to 100
  • 06: The Verb Estar and Numbers over 100
  • 07: Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Present
  • 08: The Verb Ir in the Present
  • 09: Expressing Time in Spanish
  • 10: Expressions Using the Verb Tener
  • 11: Verbs like Hacer and Interrogative Words
  • 12: The Verbs Saber and Conocer
  • 13: Stem-Changing Verbs
  • 14: Ver, Dar, and Other Irregular Verbs
  • 15: The Present Progressive
  • 16: Direct Object Pronouns and Adverbs
  • 17: Affirmatives, Negatives, and Demonstratives
  • 18: More Affirmative and Negative Expressions
  • 19: Indirect Object Pronouns
  • 20: Double Object Pronouns
  • 21: Reflexive Verbs
  • 22: Talking about the Past: Acabar and Hace
  • 23: Talking about the Past: Desde Cuando...?
  • 24: Formal Commands and Unequal Comparisons
  • 25: Informal Commands
  • 26: Superlatives and Equal Comparisons
  • 27: Regular -ar Verbs in the Preterite
  • 28: Regular -er and -ir Verbs in the Preterite
  • 29: Irregular Verbs in the Preterite
  • 30: Next Steps in Improving Your Spanish

Taught by

Bill Worden

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