Great courses (DVD)

30 lessons, 30 minutes per lesson

Learn how to speak Spanish, one of the world's most useful languages, in this course that helps anyone succeed with a new language

"Topic: Literature & language; Subtopic: Language learning"--Container

"Course No. 2816"--Container

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Presenter, Professor Bill Worden, The University of Alabama

DVD

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired

Disc 1.

Essentials to success with Spanish -- Present tense and prepositions -- Indirect objects and verbs like Gustar -- Spanish pronunciation and reciprocal verbs -- Advanced work with the preterite tense. Disc 2. Introduction to the imperfect tense -- When to use the imperfect and the preterite -- How to expand your Spanish vocabulary -- Mastering the imperfect and the preterite -- Mastering direct and double object pronouns. Disc 3. Expressing possession in Spanish -- Using Se to talk about unplanned events -- Present perfect tense -- Past participles as adjectives and nouns -- Future tense. Disc 4. Cognates and false cognates -- Conditional tense -- Uses of the infinitive -- Relative adverbs and relative pronouns -- Mastering the use of Estar and Ser. Disc 5. Advanced work with adverbs and adjectives -- How to use Para and Por -- Evolution of the Spanish language -- Health and well-being in Spanish -- Advanced work with commands. Disc 6. Introduction to the subjunctive mood -- Expressing doubt with the subjunctive -- Expressing influence with the subjunctive -- Expressing emotion with the subjunctive -- Next steps toward Spanish fluency