Upper Beginner
Continue building your Spanish with more structure, more context and more practice
Target:
This course will help you expand your foundation in Spanish, understand more complex structures and start using the language in a wider range of everyday situations.
You will work with new grammar, vocabulary, listening activities, reading practice and written exercises, while continuing to build clarity, confidence and familiarity with Spanish.
This course is for you if...
- You have completed Spanish from Scratch, or you already have a real foundation in Spanish and want to keep learning with structure.
- You want to build on what you already know and understand new grammar, vocabulary and structures more clearly.
- You want more tools to express yourself in a wider range of everyday situations.
- You want to improve your listening and reading comprehension, and speak with more confidence.
Why choose this course?
Upper Beginner is designed to help you continue learning Spanish after building your foundation.
In this course, you will review and expand what you already know, while gradually introducing new grammar, vocabulary and contexts.
The lessons are structured so you can understand how the language works, practise what you learn and start recognising Spanish in longer, more natural examples.
You will work with exercises, audio activities, reading practice, vocabulary lessons and optional writing tasks, all designed to help you consolidate what you have learned and will be learning step by step.
The goal is to help you build a stronger and more flexible base, so Spanish starts to feel more familiar, connected and usable.
Course contents:
Click on each module to see the contents in detail.
- Lección 1. Nuevos usos de SER y ESTAR.
- Lección 2. El apócope del adjetivo (buen, mal, gran, primer…).
- Lección 3. Más estructuras seguidas de infinitivo (hay que, dejar de…).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 1.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 1.
- Lección 4. Los gerundios irregulares.
- Lección 5. Más sobre verbos como GUSTAR.
- Lección 6. Más sobre verbos con construcción reflexiva (verbos terminados en -SE).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 2.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 2.
- Lección 7. El pasado. Pretérito indefinido.
- Lección 8. Verbos como gustar en Pretérito indefinido.
- Lección 9. Expresiones comunes y coloquiales.
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 3.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 3.
- Lección 10. Más sobre posesivos (mío, tuyo, suyo…).
- Lección 11. El objeto directo y el objeto indirecto (lo, la, me, te, le, les…).
- Lección 12. Más sobre los indefinidos (alguien, nadie, nada, algo…).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 4.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 4.
- Lección 13. El Pretérito imperfecto. Otra forma de expresar el pasado.
- Lección 14. Más sobre la comparación (mejor, peor, mayor, menor…).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 5.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 5.
- Lección 15. El Imperativo afirmativo.
- Lección 16. Conectores (así que, sino, por eso, es que…).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 6.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 6.
- Lección 17 . El Futuro simple. Otra forma de expresar el futuro.
- Lección 18. Más preposiciones (por vs. para, desde, hasta…).
- Vocabulario general.
- Revisión Módulo 7.
- Audio lecciones Módulo 7.
Más adjetivos para describir, expresiones y vocabulario general sobre temas variados.
Vocabulario general sobre temas variados que vas a ir aprendiendo a través de las distintas actividades: la salud, los viajes, la casa, el entorno, gustos e intereses, medios de comunicación, etc.
What exactly does the course include?
- 7 modules that you can see in more detail just above this section.
- Practice exercises to help you understand, review and use what you learn in each lesson, with gap-fill activities, translation practice, sentence building, listening and reading comprehension, and self-assessment quizzes.
- Vocabulary lessons to help you expand the words and expressions you understand and use, with practice activities to help you remember them in context.
- Audio activities to help you improve your listening comprehension. You will start working with longer conversations and use them as context to understand the grammar and vocabulary you are learning.
- All the answers to the exercises.
- Optional writing tasks with feedback. Some lessons include optional writing tasks. You can send them to me by email, and I will review them for you.
- BONUS: Have access to `Español VIVO Podcast´ for 1 year to continue learning and improving your Spanish.
FAQs:
IN WHAT LANGUAGE ARE THE COURSE MATERIALS?
In this course all explanations are in Spanish. The instructions for the exercises are also in Spanish. There are only a few exercises to translate from English to Spanish.
WHAT IS THE COURSE DURATION?
The course is designed so that you can do it at your own pace. Either way, my recommendation is to be consistent. If you do one lesson a week you can finish the course in less than three months. But remember that short, frequent sessions are more effective than a five-hour marathon every ten days.
HOW DO I ACCESS THE COURSE AFTER MY PURCHASE?
After your purchase, if you are not enrolled in Escuela Español VIVO yet, you will receive a personal username and password to access the school and the courses you are enrolled in at any time and from anywhere. You only need an internet connection.
About me
¡Hola! I’m Ana, the teacher behind Español Vivo.
I’m from Galicia, in the north of Spain, and I have been teaching Spanish to adult learners since 2010.
Over the years, I have worked with students from different countries, levels and backgrounds. That experience has shaped the way I create my courses and materials: clear, structured, practical and human.
In this course, my goal is to help you build on the foundation you already have, understand Spanish in a more connected way and keep moving forward with more structure and practice.
Satisfaction guaranteed
You have free access to the course for 7 days to try it out and decide if this course is for you.
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Upper Beginner
- 7 structured modules
- Spanish in context
- Clear explanations and guided practise
- Revision lessons & Quizzes
- Audio lessons with activities
- Optional writing tasks with my feedback
- Answer keys
- BONUS: Access to `Español VIVO Podcast´ for 1 year.
