Elementary Spanish

Conversation: The focus of this course will be on topics such as material necessities, daily life, emotions, and personal opinions. Students will learn how to communicate feelings and invitations, identify and describe people, places and objects, organize their speech, and use the correct language in social situations. Students will also learn to compare and contrast and to express likes, interests, agreement and disagreement. Grammar: The grammar component will cover the alphabet, spelling, pronunciation, the forms of the infinitive in the three conjugations, definite and indefinite articles, present indicative of the most frequently used regular and irregular verbs, the difference between ser, estar, and haber, gender and number agreement, reflexive and possessive pronouns, and compound sentences.