adult intensive spanish courses

  • Class meets three times a week for 2 hours each
  • Course runs for 4 weeks
  • Students receive a workbook, access to audio materials, and a highly trained, quality instructor
  • $349.00 for 24 hours of total instruction

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First time registrations must take a placement exam. Please email info@spanish-institute.org to schedule.

Intensive courses are for those who want to learn Spanish at an accelerated pace. These courses move quickly and provide a focused, driven learning experience.  Intensive courses follow the same full curriculum as the Standard courses, but pack all of that information into 4 weeks instead of the standard 8.

Intensive courses available at our Boulder School.

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adult intensive spanish courses

Beginner 1

 This course is for absolute beginners.  The curriculum focuses on:

  • The Alphabet and phonics
  • Greetings
  • Numbers
  • Date/ Time
  • Regular & Irregular verbs
  • How to use the “to be” verbs
  • Vocabulary to cover everyday life
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Beginner 2

 Students at this level have a simple base of vocabulary and conversational grammar, but still need to learn how to structure their sentences. Students will learn:

  • Weather
  • The verb “haber”
  • How to talk about daily activities
  • Hispanic culture
  • Direct and indirect objects
  • Latin American history
  • Vocabulary to cover professions, fruits and vegetables, and common activities
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Beginner 3

Upon completion of this course students will be able to establish and maintain a simple conversation in the present tense. At this level students will further their understanding of and learn about:

  • The “to be” verbs
  • Reflexive verbs
  • The use of direct and indirect objects
  • Vocabulary to cover doctor’s office visits, health, body parts, food, events and pastimes

 
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Intermediate 1

Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Express wants & desires
  • Converse in the present tense
  • Describe actions they do to themselves or to someone else
  • Start communicating in the Past Tense
  • Explore the differences of the Preterite and the Imperfect forms
  • Use vocabulary to cover restaurants, airports, visits and department stores
 
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Intermediate 2

 At this level students will further their understanding of:

  • The past tense
  • Relative pronouns
  • Formal and informal commands

Upon completion students will be able to:

  • Distinguish and use the different past tense verb forms
  • Give casual and formal commands
  • Use vocabulary to cover finances, sports, and the kitchen
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Intermediate 3

 This course is for students familiar with the topics covered in the Beginner levels & Intermediate 1 & 2.  At this level students will further their understanding of:

  • Formal commands
  • The subjunctive mood
  • The prepositions: Por & Para
  • The future tense

Upon completion of this course students will be able to:

  • Establish and maintain a conversation in the present, past and future tense
  • Distinguish and use the prepositions Por/ Para
  • Express wishes and desires thorough the subjunctive mood
 

Advanced Reading and Conversation Group

  This class is geared to  those students that would like to practice and polish its oral communication skill. It is a conversation orientated group in which students will practice and strengthen the grammar topics covered in all previous levels through the discussion of short stories, poems, and other readings. Students should be able to converse in the past, present and future tenses, as the goal is to interpret and communicate thoughts in a fluent manner.