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Instructor: Bob Oelschlager BOelschl@gmail.com 703 960-2830
Recommended Text: Spanish All-in-One for Dummies
· Supplemental reading and exercises will be assigned but are not required
· The more times you see, hear, read and say something, the better you will learn it
This 8 week course is for all levels of experience. We will keep things light and move to a new topic every 5 to 10 minutes. For the more advanced topics, beginners should think of the material as something interesting thing to be aware of rather than as something they need to know.
Each week we may cover:
I. Pronunciation Modules
1. Vowels
2. y and diphthongs: ei, ie ue, ay
3. Which syllable to accent?
4. ll, ñ, ch, q and h
5. j, g, c and k
6. b and v; s and z
7. x, r and rr
8. review of the Spanish alphabet
II. Irregular verb of the week
1. Ir – “to go”
2. Tener – “to have”
3. Estar and Ser – “to be”
4. Haber – auxiliary verb “to have”
5. Hacer – “to make or to do”
6. Dar – “to give”
7. Ver – “to see;” Decir – “To say”
8. Other irregular verbs
III. Church words of the week
1. Dios (Words for God)
2. El Padre Nuestro (Lord’s Prayer)
3. Que Dios le bendiga (May God bless you)
4. Famous Bible people
5. Books of the Bible
6. Bible Passages I
7. Bible Passages II
8. Bible Passages III
IV. Idioms of the week
V. Verb Tenses and Moods
1. Future tense
2. Present indicative
3. Conditional
4. Compound (perfect and progressive) tenses (I have gone / I had gone / I am working / I was working).
5. Past tense – definite past
6. Past tense – imperfect
7. Subjunctive and imperative
8. Reflexive verbs
VI. Guatemala Focus of the week
VII. Everyday Phrases of the week
4. Numbers and counting
5. Colors
6. Family members
7. Food
8. Shopping
VIII. Pronouns and Articles
1. Subject pronouns
2. Definite and indefinite articles
3. Direct object pronouns
4. Indirect object pronouns
5. Possessive pronouns
6. Who, what, when, where, how, this, that, these, those
7. Use of pronouns with gustar
8. Reflexive pronouns