Start your beginner Spanish learning journey with our Beginner Spanish: A1.1 Course, suitable for complete beginners with no prior experience of Spanish. This course introduces essential communication skills and provides a strong foundation in basic grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, making it ideal for learners wanting to learn the Spanish language for travel, work, or personal enrichment in a supportive, interactive learning environment.
You will learn to greet others formally and informally, ask for and give personal information, express intentions, and talk about languages and activities. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in context, covering definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, present tense verbs (ser, tener, llamarse, and regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs), gender in nationalities and professions, and uses of por, para, and porque. Phonetics is integrated throughout, with practice in vowel pronunciation, connectors, and intonation for partial questions and answers, to help you sound natural and confident from the very beginning.
Delivery mode for individual classes will vary from term to term, but will be listed as the following:
- Face-to-Face: WEA Sydney
- Online: Microsoft Teams
- Aula Internacional Plus 1 A1 Edicion Hibrida Libro del Alumno (Difusion: 2022), ISBN: 9788419236043
Supplier: Abbey's Language Book Centre
Please note that textbook cost is not included in the course fee. Language courses will be confirmed or cancelled at least 7 days prior to their starting date, so students are recommended to wait until the course is confirmed before buying the textbook.
Communication
- Saying hello and goodbye (informal)
- Numbers 1-10, the alphabet
- Asking for and giving personal information
- Saying hello and goodbye (formal)
- Expressing intentions
- Explaining the motivations for what you do
- Talking about what you do in different languages
Grammar
- Gender in nationalities and professions
- Definite articles (el, la, los, las) and indefinite articles (un, una, unos, unas)
- The presente de indicativo
- Verbs: ser, tener and llamarse; Ending in –ar, -er, -ir
- Uses of por, para and porque
- Personal pronouns
Phonetics
- Intonation of partial questions and answers
- Vowels, connectors
Vocabulary
- Numbers, nationalities, professions, workplaces
- Languages and activities in a language class
- Leisure activities
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Introduce themselves and interact in simple everyday situations, including greeting others, asking for and giving personal information, expressing intentions, and talking about languages and activities.
- Use foundational Spanish grammar and vocabulary with confidence, including definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, the present tense of common verbs (ser, tener, llamarse, and regular -ar, -er, -ir verbs), gender in nationalities and professions, and basic uses of por, para, and porque.
- Communicate clearly in spoken Spanish, practicing intonation for simple questions and answers, vowels, and basic connectors to support understandable speech.
