Spanish Classes Calgary – EST

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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To teach conversational Spanish with a highly effective and efficient method so you learn to speak Spanish in a fairly short period of time.

Providing you with the most useful ways of communicating in Spanish when travelling to Spanish-speaking countries.

You will learn the foundation and most important elements of the Spanish language to be used in real-life situations.

OUR PROGRAMS

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The program in Spanish our school offers is designed to smoothly take you from Spanish for beginners, where you know no words at all or just some very basic Spanish, to Spanish for advanced speakers, where you will acquire a fluent level and can easily think in the language and communicate with little to zero effort.

We offer Beginner levels 1, 2, 3, and conversation for beginners; Intermediate levels 1, 2, 3 and conversation for intermediates; and Advanced 1, 2, 3 and conversation for advanced.

OUR INSTRUCTORS

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Our online Spanish courses are taught by university-educated and experienced native speakers in a fun and unique Latin environment.

Our instructors are from Colombia, Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico and Spain, so you are exposed to different accents as well as different teaching approaches.

Spanish for Beginners Level 1

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This level is designed for students who are studying Spanish for the first time. This once-a-week course will help you create a solid foundation in Spanish, providing the stepping stones of Spanish grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and everyday usage. By the end of this course, you will be able to ask and answer simple questions in Spanish and hold simple conversations in Spanish using the present and immediate future tense.

Spanish for Beginners Level 2

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This level is designed for students who have completed Beginner 1 once a week or the equivalent according to our placement test. You will continue to build your oral, written, and listening skills through basic Spanish exercises while expanding your vocabulary and developing greater fluency. By the end of the course, you will be able to articulate descriptions, express wants, desires, and obligations and effectively talk about common actions and situations of everyday life.

Spanish for Beginners Level 3

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This level is designed for students who have completed Beginners 2 once a week or the equivalent according to our placement test. You will concentrate on oral skills as your fluency and pronunciation improve. You will learn to express likes and dislikes, expand your vocabulary base with opposite words, parts of the house and other items, and use connectors to form more complex sentences. You will also learn to speak in the progressive present tense.

Spanish Conversation for Beginners

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This course is tailored to those who have already completed basic Spanish through levels 1, 2, and 3 or have acquired a basic knowledge of the language, either through travelling or other previous studies. You will get an opportunity to practice your conversation skills and improve on what you already know. Using a more empirical approach, your instructor will facilitate situations that emulate real-life and casual conversations as if you were experiencing them in a Spanish-speaking country.

Intermediate Spanish Level 1

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This level is designed for students who have completed Spanish Conversation for Beginners or the equivalent according to our placement test. In this course, you will enhance your ability to communicate by learning how to conjugate ar verbs in Spanish past tense, as well as er verbs and ir ending verbs. You will also improve your reading comprehension as you keep on expanding your vocabulary base and learn the most common irregular verbs Spanish.

Intermediate Spanish Level 2

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This level is designed for students who have completed intermediate 1 or the equivalent according to our placement test. Students will keep developing their reading and writing skills. By the end of this course students will be familiar with the past tense of irregular verbs, and will also learn to use direct and indirect object pronouns to abbreviate phrases the way native speakers do.

Intermediate Spanish Level 3

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This level is designed for students who have completed intermediate 2 or the equivalent according to our placement test. Students will deepen their grammar understanding by learning reflexive verbs and pronouns, the imperfect past tense, and the perfect tense.

Intermediate Spanish Level Conversation

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This course is tailored to those who already have basic knowledge of the language, either from traveling or from previous studies, and would like an opportunity to practice their conversation skills and improve on what they already know. Using a more empirical approach, an instructor will facilitate situations that emulate real and casual conversations as if they were happening in a Spanish-speaking country.

Advanced Spanish Level 1

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Our Online Spanish Lessons for Advanced Students are designed to help push and guide students, who have an intermediate level and or have completed our Intermediate Spanish level 3, to “own” the language and completely think in Spanish in order to demonstrate native-like fluency. In this course, you will keep on practicing your oral skills as you use the future and conditional tenses of regular and irregular verbs.

Advanced Spanish Level 2

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This level is intended for students who have completed Advanced Spanish level 1 or the equivalent according to our placement test. You will dive deeper into the Spanish grammar and learn how to use the subjunctive in Spanish, a mode used to express hypothetic or uncertain scenarios, wishes or desires as they relate to other people, objects or situations.

Advanced Spanish Level 3

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This level is designed for students who have completed Advanced Spanish level 2 or the equivalent according to our placement test. You will learn to use more complex grammar structures such as the imperative Spanish mode and the future perfect tense, all while enhancing your fluency, connecting ideas together, sharing stories and expressing opinions.

Advanced Spanish Conversation

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This course of Spanish for advanced speakers will further improve your level of fluidity in the language by providing you with an opportunity to openly speak and get your points across. You will enrich your vocabulary with sophisticated words as you discuss different topics ranging from cultural events, Latin American politics, news, sports, health, science, art, travelling, and other trending topics. Extensive travelling or equivalent exposure to the language is required.