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Level 1 : f you have little or no background in the target language, this class is for you! Maybe you know a few words, exclamations or short phrases—or maybe not. No worries, at this level, you will learn: the sound system and pronunciation, basic greetings, numbers, telling time, speaking in the present with regular verbs and describing places.
Level 2: Continue to practice building short conversations about daily life, describe people, places and pets, adding grammar, practice speaking in the present and in the future (“going to”) and learn about food and ordering at a restaurant.
Level 3: Improve your use of the present and future tenses. Review the grammar used to describe people and places. You will also learn about stem-changing verbs in the present tense and how to talk about things that you like.
Level 4: Build on more irregular verbs in the present. Learn how to talk about the weather and your routine with reflexive verbs. By the end of this course, you will be able to express yourself in the present, the future and immediate past.
Level 5: Review of the present and future. Learn how to talk about your life experiences in general as well as what you did yesterday, last week or another specific time in the past using regular verbs.
Level 6: Continue building on the present, future while adding some irregular verbs to the simple past. Focus on the different types of pronouns that are used with regular verbs, reflexive verbs and direct/indirect objects.
Level 7: Compare some of the various structures used to express yourself in the past tenses. The past tense is usually challenging for many students, so it is common that students take this level a couple of times to work on fluency and accuracy before they move on to the next level. It also reinforces different grammar points from previous levels.
Level 8: Ready to have longer conversations using a mix of present, past and future tenses? Introduction to phrases and grammar to help you express your mood, feelings and opinions with the present subjunctive. You will practice having longer conversations about your life, work, hobbies, interests and opinions.
Level 9: Explore more sophisticated grammar structures like past subjunctive, other compound verb tenses and the conditional as you continue to improve your fluency and accuracy of the different verb tenses. A great opportunity to gain confidence in speaking through activities aimed at recreating real world situations for you to respond to in a natural way.

Spanish for Healthcare Professionals

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