Level I  32 Hours : You may have had no Spanish, or perhaps some classes in high school or college. Maybe you’ve spent some time in a Spanish speaking country.  Either way, our Beginner classes start at the beginning and rapidly move through the basics (in the 1st class).  Each student moves along at his/her own pace. Basic survival Spanish is learned early on which includes: Common greetings, the numbers, basic colors, basic foods, body parts , clothing items , telling time, giving/receiving directions, present tense as well as simple conventions to express past and future events.  At the end of this level, you should be able to comprehend 30 to 40 % of spoken Spanish: You should be able to carry on simple conversations, read  and begin to write in Spanish. Learn over 1,200 vocabulary words at comprehension level.  
 (For you Grammarians) Additionally, through role play, games and enjoyable processes,  students pick up naturally and easily how to read, write and  use grammar i.e. Ser Vs Estar (To Be), Verbs like Gustar (To Like), Reflexives, Direct and Indirect Object, Go Go Verbs, Possessive Adjectives, Esa and Esta (This & That), Giving Commands (The Imperative), Gender Agreement, Definite & Indefinite Articles, Por Vs Para and more.   

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Level II  32 Hours: For those who are beginning to put sentences together  and comprehend when people speak slowly and deliberately , who have perhaps a 1,200-word vocabulary and have moved from a state of alienation to a comfortable sense of Spanish structure. . Includes: Review of the Beginner class on the first night of Intermediate.  Stress on becoming more familiar with the various simple tenses, used in authentic communication situations. (For you Grammarians) i.e. future, future conditional mood,  preterit, imperfect and past participle verb tenses.  Verbs Hay and Haber are shown how they work with the past participle.  Gain approximately  1500 additional words.  As in the Beginner Level, classes are taught in the same Accelerated Learning format using games, music, role play, costumes and props. 
As in the Beginner Level, no class is harder than the first class. 

Note: Verb conjugations  are not taught in the abstract or by rote memorization as in traditional learning environments.  Through role-play and games and as they relate in context to  the script dialog material, new grammatical concepts are introduced. 

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Level III  32 Hours:  For those who have completed the Intermediate level and want to increase their vocabulary, fluency and ease in using more varied tenses with the stress on conversation.   Includes: conversational refinement, vocabulary building and fluency through discussion and debate forums. Additionally, acquire more than 1,800 vocabulary words gained through script dialogs, conversations and creative processes. (Grammarians): Emphasis is on the past imperfect tense and the subjunctive mood. The course is taught all in Spanish with the exception of brief explanations in English for clarity purposes.  Accelerated Learning format of games, props, music, and film are also an integral part of the Advanced Level.  
 

Level IV 32 Hours:  for those who have completed the Intermediate or an equivalent  level and wish to polish their fluency and spontaneity and at the same time acquire "modismos" or idiomatic nuances and expression used in fast  paced native fluency.   Cross cultural training is integrated into each lesson.  Curriculum includes: culture, cuisine, art and history of Mexico.  Who was La Malinche, Pancho Villa, Porfirio Diaz and La Llorona?  Taste real interior Mexican food i.e. comida corrida, nopalitos, sopes and more, while learning about the past 500 years of her history and  legends taught entirely in Spanish.  Click here to find out more about Culture Class
                                                                            

"People learn in direct proportion to how much fun they are having".
Bob Pike
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