Spanish Classes at our Language Door School in the heart of the San Fernando Valley in Encino. Serving students in Burbank, Calabasas, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana and Woodland Hills California.

Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!

Language Door offers small interactive Spanish classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Spanish fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.

Please check the schedules:

• San Fernando Valley Weekly Language Class Schedule with online registration
• San Fernando Valley Language Immersion Class Schedule
• San Fernando Valley Language Crash Course Schedule
• San Fernando Valley Kids Language Class Schedule with online registration

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 at our Language Door School San Fernando Valley in Encino.

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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Learning a Language can be Fun

We currently offer the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Korean and many more languages in language class programs at our San Fernando Valley Language Door School in Encino or our West Los Angeles Language Door School. Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning the language of your choice fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.