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Spanish Classes Los Angeles - Spanish Classes San Diego - Spanish Classes Orange County - Spanish Classes San Fernando Valley
Language Door offers small interactive Spanish classes! Please check the schedule.
For the beginning and
intermediate classes, we use "Ultimate
Spanish
Basic-Intermediate" by Living Language. There is also an optional eight cassette
or CD package that accompanies the
book. For the advanced classes, we
provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (chapters 1-6)
Topics - Introductions, asking for information,
clock time, work, weather, months, seasons, clothing colors, and sizes.
Grammar and usage - Pronunciation, the verbs "to be", negation, gender, subject
pronouns, articles, question words, numbers, present tense of regular verbs,
the verb "to go", etc.
Beginning B (chapters 7-12)
Topics - Body and health, family relationships,
food, likes and dislikes, eating at restaurants, and making a phone call.
Grammar and usage- The verb "to have", the verb "to do", the present progressive,
possessive adjectives, common prepositions, direct and indirect object
pronouns, additional present tense irregular verbs, etc.
Beginning C (chapters 13-19)
Topics - Jewelry store, pharmacy, daily
activities, traveling by bus, train, renting a car, and at the gas station.
Grammar and usage - Additional present tense irregular verbs, the uses of "to know",
reflexive verbs, formal commands, comparatives, the superlative, begin
the preterite tense, etc.
Intermediate A (chapters 20-26)
Topics - Renting an apartment, doctor's office,
dentist's, buying a computer, movie theater, bargaining, and looking for a
job.
Grammar and usage - Additional preterite tense, additional irregular verbs, familiar
commands, ordinal numbers, imperfect tense, past progressive, etc.
Intermediate B (chapters 27-33)
Topics - Post office, the beach, the bank,
currency exchange, police station, watching TV, and movies.
Grammar and usage - Present and past perfect tense, future tense, conditional tense,
uses of "por" and "para", passive, present subjunctive tense,
etc.
Intermediate C (chapters 34-40)
Topics - Sports, hotel, media, holidays and
festivals, politics, errands, and airport.
Grammar and usage - Additional present subjunctive tense, the imperfect subjunctive
tense, the present perfect subjunctive tense, the past perfect subjunctive,
certain common expressions, etc.
Advanced Classes
Topics - Discussion of articles, issues,
literature, etc.
Grammar and usage - As appropriate related to conversation topics.
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us
Feedback from Our Students
"I am learning a lot and understanding the language much more than ever.
Manuel [the teacher] makes things easier for me to learn.
Explaining things, breaks them down for me. I enjoy the class.
He uses both English and Spanish and it accelerates my vocab, Tammy.
"Charina [the teacher] makes the course fun as we learn a new language. Great teacher and course,"
John.
"Very friendly and relaxed atmosphere, very conductive to learning. The small class environment makes for easy class participation. Manuel [the teacher] makes sure we understand before going on,"
David.
"The class is great. I enjoy learning Spanish here. The small classes help and make it more personal. Manuel [the teacher] is excellent and very patient with students,"
Amelia.
"Absolutely wonderful. I love the class. I am learning mucho español. It is exceeding my expectation,"
Lori.
"I'm very pleased with the class. The teacher is very easy to understand,"
Carin.
""The course is very thorough. Consuelo [the teacher] paces the class well according to the students' understanding. Lots of verbal interaction, which is good!,"
Carly.
"Armando [the teacher] is easy to understand and doesn't mind a lot of questions,"
Jeff.
"The course has been great. I feel I am learning a lot. Consuelo [the teacher] is a great instructor. Very fun!,"
Jasmine.
"Armando es inteligente, paciente, y simpático," Suzanne.
Language Description
Spanish, member of the Romance group of the Italic
subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages, is spoken as a first
language by approximately 330 million people. Additionally, there are
another 50 million people who speak Spanish as their second language. Not
only it is the official language of Spain (40 million speakers) and 19 Latin
American countries but also one of the official languages of the United
Nations.
Further Information
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County Spanish classes, please follow the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
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