Spanish - Beginner
This course is ideal for:
those who either have some prior knowledge of Spanish through attending no more than a couple of terms of adult ed classes (or going to Spain on a few occasions) or those who did Spanish at school a long time ago but dropped it as a potential GCSE subject in Year 9/Form 3 already.
In this unit we will do a recap of cardinal numbers 1-100, ordinal numbers 1st to 10th, the alphabet and how to pronounce groups of Spanish letters. We will also do a recap of the most useful polite expressions and a tiny bit of basic grammar ( masculine v feminine, singular v plural, ‘ser’ v estar’ for ‘to be’, ‘tener’ v ‘haber’ for ‘to have’ and people pronouns like ‘yo’ ‘ ‘tú’ ‘usted’ You’ll also find out what amenities a place has/doesn’t have and how to ask/say where something in town is in relation to where the person is standing or in relation to another building. In addition, you’ll learn how to ask for/obtain instructions on how to get to somewhere that is not immediately visible. Finally, you’ll discover how to get somewhere a little further afield that is not walking distance, whether by public transport or in your car.
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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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