Learn Spanish 4: Spanish Prepositions, Adverbs, and Tenses
Develop your Spanish as you learn to talk about the past and enrich your conversations with prepositions and adverbs.
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Learn Spanish 4: Spanish Prepositions, Adverbs, and Tenses
Hone your Spanish grammar skills
On this four-week course, you’ll delve into Spanish tenses and time, as well as prepositions and adverbs to take your Spanish language skills to the next level. With this knowledge, you’ll build your confidence and ability to have richer conversations.
By following a diverse range of engaging materials, you’ll finish the course with an understanding of advanced Spanish topics and gain an insight into the rich culture of the Spanish-speaking world.
Unpack Spanish imperfect tense
You’ll develop your grammatical knowledge as you learn how to describe past events and experiences.
With this understanding, you’ll be able to develop deeper connections with people as you learn how to share stories about your past.
Explore Spanish prepositions and adverbs
You’ll further your vocabulary as you learn how to use connectors, adverbs, and the prepositions ‘por and ‘para’.
This knowledge will help you narrate past events and add more structure and information to simple sentences.
Learn from the language specialists at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Throughout the course, you’ll be guided by the experts at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana to help develop your listening comprehension, reading comprehension, grammar, and vocabulary.
By the end, you’ll have the skills and confidence to have in-depth conversations in Spanish.
Syllabus
Week 1
Describing past events
Past events
You will be presented with various resources to describe past events using the Imperfect preterite tense, past time adverbs, and time connectors
Week 2
Narrating past events
Narrating past events
You will be presented with various resources to narrate past events using the Indefinite preterite tense with regular and irregular verbs.
Week 3
Talking about past experiences
Past experiences
You will be presented with various resources to talk about past experiences alternating preterite tenses and using adverbial locutions.
Week 4
Using the gerund in past, adverbs of place, and prepositions por and para
Prepositions "por" and "para"
You will be presented with various resources to learn to use the gerund in past, adverbs of place, and prepositions por and para.
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply how to talk about past experiences.
- Apply talking about important past events.
- Apply how to use the following grammar aspects: imperfect preterite tense (regular and irregular verbs); indefinite tense (regular and irregular verbs); the gerund in past; prepositions por and para.
- Apply how to use the following vocabulary aspects: connectors: luego, entonces, porque, aunque, sin embargo.; past time expressions; adverbial locutions; adverbs of place.
- Apply narrating past events.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone wanting to develop their Spanish language skills.
You should have some knowledge of the Spanish language as you will explore advanced topics.
Who will you learn with?
Hola. Soy Gustavo Jaramillo Cardona, profesor de español en el Centro de Lenguas de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Medellín. ¡Mucho gusto!
Soy Jorge Estupiñán, profesor de español del Centro de Lenguas de la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana.
Who developed the course?
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB), located in Medellín, Colombia, is a highly recognized institution not only in the city, but also in the country due to its high-quality accreditation awarded by the Colombian Ministry of Education.
UPB promotes integral development of human being as an ethical, social, rational, religious, artistic person, who gives a humanist sense of the environment through a process of continuous improvement.
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$244.99 for one whole year
Automatically renews
Develop skills to further your career
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- Access to 1,000+ courses
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
Cancel for free anytime
Buy this course
$134/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Tests to boost your learning
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 4 Jun 2024
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