Spanish - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who either have just a little prior knowledge of Spanish or those who did Spanish at school a long time ago and who have forgotten almost everything.
In the first unit we covered numbers 1-100, greetings, enquiries about general wellbeing, polite phrases, personal introductions and basic personal info that can be explained with a bare minimum of verb involvement (the only verbs fully conjugated in the present tense were the verbs ‘to be’ and ‘to have’; otherwise it was just the ‘I’ and ‘you’ forms. The sub-topic was shopping for simple picnic/breakfast items in a shop.
In this second unit there will be ordinal numbers, the alphabet, ordering food and drink in a restaurant and getting around an area on foot and by public transport and car. From a grammatical point of view, I will be showing you how to conjugate a large number regular verbs in the present tense so that you can talk about other people doing things and not just yourself. From a cultural point of view, we will be talking a lot about Spanish monuments and food and drink.
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Since my first of many twinning exchange trips to the Loire Valley in France and to the Ruhr Valley in Germany in my teens, I have always loved foreign languages, cultures and people (and of course the food and drink too). As part of my university studies, I spent eight months in Lorraine on the border with Belgium and Luxembourg, four months in Nordrhein-Westfalen on the border with the Netherlands and four months in the city of Lyon. Having only started learning Spanish as an adult, I have not spent extensive amounts of time in Spain but I have holidayed there as well as in Peru. Before becoming a licencee with Language for Fun, I taught for twelve years in secondary schools, including one in Zambia near the border with French-speaking Congo. I have had many adventures in many Francophone, Germanophone and Hispanophone countries where my language 'skills' have both saved the day AND got me into a bit of hot water! Let me use MY cringeworthy past experiences of making hilarious mistakes save YOU from doing the same.
When I am not teaching or learning languages (I speak some Dutch and Italian now too), I enjoy swimming, reading and walking but I am particularly passionate about the performing arts; I think you will be able to tell this when you meet me! I look forward to meeting YOU!
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