General Curriculum

NuLengua focuses on building student conversational skills while providing a basic structure to advance student understanding and mastery of Spanish grammar. The following course outline is a summary of the general curriculum.

Levels – Grammar by Level

Beginner

  • Spanish Alphabet / Pronunciation
  • Basic Vocabulary
  • Subject Pronouns:
    Singular & Plural
  • Ser and Estar
  • Por and Para
  • Interrogative Words
  • Days of the Week
  • Numbers
  • Gender and Number
  • Time
  • Demonstrative Adjectives
  • Hacer (time expressions)
  • Adverbs of Time
  • Prepositions

Intermediate

  • Direct Object Nouns / Pronouns
  • Indirect Object Nouns/ Pronouns
  • Gustar
  • Mucho & Poco
  • Gerunds
  • Adverbs
  • Relative pronouns
  • Idiomatic expressions
  • Comparisons of in/equality
  • Por and Para
  • Prepositions
  • Possessive Adjectives
  • Superlatives

Advanced

  • Review of all the Tenses
  • Subjunctive and Correlation of Verbs
    (A lot of emphasis on Subjunctive)
  • Idiomatic Expressions
  • Periphrasis
  • Past Participles
  • Conditional Sentences
  • Accentuation
  • Relative Clauses
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Passive Constructions with Ser and Esta

Although we have this basic structure, it does not mean we cannot meet your individual needs within this structure. We are very flexible when it comes to meeting the needs of every student. This is only a partial view of what is offered in terms of the grammatical concepts.