Class Description: This Spanish grammar course is intended for students who have never before studied Spanish or for those who have not used the language for so long that they need to start over.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Preliminar:

• The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation  

• Greetings

• Months of the year & days of the week

• Colors

• Numbers: ordinal and cardinal;

• Fractions; divisions; multiplication; adding and subtracting 

Grammar:

• • Nouns and articles

  • Adjectives

  • Personal pronouns ( primera parte )

  • SER and ESTAR

  • Present tense of regular verbs; irregular verbs & verbs with spelling change

  • Present Tense of verbs with stem change

  • Numbers

  • Interrogative and Exclamatory words

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework from the textbook and accompanying workbook.

Prerequisite: None 

Book/Materials:   

**NEW** Asi Es Spanish Edition   by  Nancy Levy-Konesky; Karen Daggett, 

ISBN 0030259282

Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

501 Spanish Verbs, Tenth Edition (Paperback or Soft-back) Tenth Edition

Class Description:  This grammar course is for students who have been introduced to the Spanish language but are still at a beginning level. Typically, students should have completed Spanish 1 at La Causerie or have taken several years of high-school Spanish, a couple of semesters of college Spanish, or have had an equivalent life experience (lived abroad, etc.) that gives them some pronunciation skills and a basic foundation of vocabulary.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Grammar:

• The progressive tense

• Prepositions

• Indefinite and Negative words and expressions

• The preterit tense

• The imperfect tense

• Preterit and the Imperfect

• The future ( 1st part. Talk about the 2 futures )

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework. 

Prerequisite: knowledge of the material covered in Spanish 1.

Book/Materials:  Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

Class Description: This Spanish grammar course is intended for students who have never before studied Spanish or for those who have not used the language for so long that they need to start over.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Preliminar:

• The Spanish alphabet and its pronunciation  

• Greetings

• Months of the year & days of the week

• Colors

• Numbers: ordinal and cardinal;

• Fractions; divisions; multiplication; adding and subtracting 

Grammar:

• • Nouns and articles

  • Adjectives

  • Personal pronouns ( primera parte )

  • SER and ESTAR

  •  Present tense of regular verbs; irregular verbs & verbs with spelling change

  • Present Tense of verbs with stem change

  • Numbers

  • Interrogative and Exclamatory words

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework from the textbook and accompanying workbook.

Prerequisite: None 

Book/Materials:   Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Makes-Perfect-Complete-Spanish/dp/126046315X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=NZG66UOM2TIQ&dchild=1&keywords=complete+spanish+grammar&qid=1624287145&sprefix=Complete+Spanish+Gram%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-3

Class Description: This is a multilevel class designed to enhance and reinforce learning from the leveled classes. It is not a prerequisite to advance to the next level.

This is a conversation focused class. The instructor may use reading, writing, and other means to provide opportunities to build conversation skills.  

**This class is only an enhancement to the leveled language classes. Registering for a leveled language class is highly recommended.

Class Description:  This grammar course is for students who have been introduced to the Spanish language but are still at a beginning level. Typically, students should have completed Spanish 1 at La Causerie or have taken several years of high-school Spanish, a couple of semesters of college Spanish, or have had an equivalent life experience (lived abroad, etc.) that gives them some pronunciation skills and a basic foundation of vocabulary.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Grammar:

• The progressive tense

• Prepositions

• Indefinite and Negative words and expressions

• The preterit tense

• The imperfect tense

• Preterit and the Imperfect

• The future ( 1st part. Talk about the 2 futures )

Instruction: The instructor will use English for grammatical explanations, will incorporate Spanish into drills and other exercises, and will assign homework. 

Prerequisite: knowledge of the material covered in Spanish 1.

Book/Materials:  Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Makes-Perfect-Complete-Spanish/dp/126046315X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=NZG66UOM2TIQ&dchild=1&keywords=complete+spanish+grammar&qid=1624287145&sprefix=Complete+Spanish+Gram%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-3

Class Description: This grammar course is for students who have learned the basic elements of the Spanish language. It builds on what has been learned in Spanish 1 and 2.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Grammar:

• Reflexive 

• Personal pronouns (Obj. directo y Obj. indirecto)

• Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives and pronouns

• Adverbs

• Present perfect and past perfect

• Future perfect & conditional perfect

• Relative pronouns

Prerequisite: The material covered in Spanish 1 and 2.

Instruction: The instructor will speak in Spanish during most classroom activities, but when necessary, she will move briefly into English in order to make grammatical explanations clearer. Homework assignments will be from the book and the accompanying workbook.

Book/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Makes-Perfect-Complete-Spanish/dp/126046315X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=NZG66UOM2TIQ&dchild=1&keywords=complete+spanish+grammar&qid=1624287145&sprefix=Complete+Spanish+Gram%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-3

Class Description: This is a multilevel class designed to enhance and reinforce learning from the leveled classes. It is not a prerequisite to advance to the next level.

This is a conversation focused class. The instructor may use reading, writing, and other means to provide opportunities to build conversation skills. 

**This class is only an enhancement to the leveled language classes. Registering for a leveled language class is highly recommended. 

Class Description: This upper-level grammar course builds on the foundations of what students have learned in Spanish 1, 2, and 3. The instructor will conduct the class entirely in Spanish and will resort to English for grammatical explanations only when absolutely necessary. Students at this level are likely to experience new doors opening to them in terms of their abilities to read short story length material and to speak a number of coherent sentences in a row. The instructor will assign homework from the book.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Grammar:

• The passive voice and passive constructions  

• The commands

• The Subjunctive Mood

• Subjunctive: adverb and relative clauses

• Subjunctive: the imperfect and the pluperfect subjunctive

Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish and will resort to English only when necessary to make grammatical or usage points clear.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of the material in levels 1, 2, and 3

Book/Materials:  Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition

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Class Description: This advanced Spanish conversation course is aimed at furthering the development of students’ oral and listening skills through the discussion of topics presented by a carefully selected series in Netflix in Spanish, and a book. The instructor will conduct classroom sessions entirely in Spanish based on a series on Netflix or a book  that inspires discussion and analysis of the topics. 

Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish. Often, grammatical and usage points come up during discussions, and the instructor may from time to time incorporate brief grammatical explanations in English into the conversation, but this is not a grammar class, and the focus will be on refining verbal-communication skills in Spanish.

Prerequisite: This advanced Spanish conversation course is designed and intended for students with good grammatical backgrounds, listening and speaking abilities. 

Book/Materials: "Burro Genio" by Victor Villaseñor" Available on Amazon-click here.

Class Description: This intermediate Spanish conversation course is aimed at furthering the development of students’ oral and listening skills through the discussion of topics presented by a carefully selected series of simple YouTube videos in Spanish. The instructor will conduct classroom sessions entirely in Spanish based on relatively short YouTube videos that inspire discussion and analysis of the topics. YouTube-video topics will come from a variety of authors and countries. The instructor as well will use the book: "Stories: Buenas Noches para Niñas rebeldes”, and use it for reading and discussion.

Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish 1, 2, and 3 or equivalent knowledge.  This intermediate Spanish conversation course is designed and intended for students with good grammatical backgrounds but with limited listening and speaking abilities. We request that advanced students NOT take this course so that the instructor can adjust the vocabulary and speed of the language used in the class to levels appropriate for students who are striving to develop basic listening and speaking skills.

Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish. Often, grammatical and usage points come up during discussions, and the instructor may from time to time incorporate brief grammatical explanations in English into the conversation, but this is not a grammar class, and the focus will be on refining verbal-communication skills in Spanish.

Book/Materials:  "Cuentos para niños que se atreven a ser diferentes“  Available on Amazon-click here.

Class Description: This is a multilevel class designed to enhance and reinforce learning from the leveled classes. It is not a prerequisite to advance to the next level.

This is a conversation focused class. The instructor may use reading, writing, and other means to provide opportunities to build conversation skills. 

Course Description: This grammar course is for students who have learned the basic elements of the Spanish language. It builds on what has been learned in Spanish 1 and 2.

Course Objective: Completion of the following chapters and topics

Grammar

Unit # 8     Reflexive  pg. 81

Unit # 19   Personal pronouns (Obj. directo y Obj. indirecto)   pg. 231

Unit # 21   Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives and pronouns   pg. 253

Unit # 22   Adverbs   pg. 266

Unit # 10   Present perfect and past perfect   pg. 104

Unit # 11   Future perfect & conditional perfect   pg. 115

Unit # 20   Relative pronouns   pg. 244

Prerequisites: Spanish 1 and 2 or equivalent

Books/Materials: Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses, Premium Fourth Edition 4th Edition by Dorothy Richmond  

ISBN-13: 978-1260452457

Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Verb Tenses, Premium Fourth Edition: Richmond, Dorothy: 9781260452457: Books: Amazon.com

Class Description: This upper-level grammar course builds on the foundations of what students have learned in Spanish 1, 2, and 3. The instructor will conduct the class entirely in Spanish and will resort to English for grammatical explanations only when absolutely necessary. Students at this level are likely to experience new doors opening to them in terms of their abilities to read short story length material and to speak a number of coherent sentences in a row. The instructor will assign homework from the book.

Instruction: The instructor will conduct the class in Spanish and will resort to English only when necessary to make grammatical or usage points clear.

Prerequisite: Knowledge of the material in levels 1, 2, and 3 

Book/Materials:  Practice Makes Perfect, Complete Spanish Grammar, Premium 4th Edition