Prerequisites

Must have successfully completed the previous level or must have been placed into this level by taking CR Languages’ placement test.

Course Objectives and Outcomes

Grammar – Use of vos and vosotros. Review of the verbs ser and llamarse. Use of ser as opposed to estar. Indefinite articles. Number of nouns. Possessive adjectives. Descriptive adjectives. Comparatives and superlatives. Use of…

Course Description

Spanish 1 is designed for students who have learnt the basic building blocks and vocabulary to have simple conversations in the present tense about yourself,…

Interjections

Often followed by exclamation marks, Interjections are words or phrases that express strong emotion or sudden reaction. While interjections are a part of speech, they are…

Articles

Articles are words placed in front of nouns to indicate if the noun is referring to something specific or general. There are two different types of…

Sentence structure

In general, from the grammar point of view, sentences are composed of two principal parts: the subject and the predicate. In simple terms, the subject is who or…

Conjunctions

Conjunctions are joining words. They are used when we want to join two words, concepts, phrases, clauses or even whole sentences together. There are four…

Prepositions

The word preposition means ‘something that is placed before’. Prepositions are words used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence.…

Adverbs

Adverbs describe a verb, adjective or adverb. They add description to our sentences. Examples: I carefully wrote a sentence. I finally called my mother. I quickly walked my dog. I…

Adjectives

An adjective is a ‘describing word’. Crucially, though, they specifically identify, modify, or describe nouns or pronouns. In general, adjectives usually give us more information…

Pronouns

Prononuns are words that take the place of any nouns in a sentence. There are various categories of pronoun, depending on the function they perform…

Nouns

There are various categories of noun, but they are all ‘naming words’. They just name different types of things: the people, places, things, or ideas…