If you’re an existing member of my Conversational Spanish group, below is a list of the classes I currently offer.
If you stumbled across this page by accident, then I recommend taking a look at the class offerings and consider joining my Conversational Spanish Group. Here’s the link to join and/or get more information about the group:
Conversational Spanish Class
https://www.meetup.com/ConversationalSpanishClass
You can join the Meetup group for free and automatically receive notifications in your inbox about the class schedule.
You can also see the class schedule at the following link:
https://www.meetup.com/ConversationalSpanishClass/events/calendar/
And if you’d like to know about me, Rodney, your Meetup organizer and conversational Spanish coach, just go here:
http://helpingyoulearnspanish.com/hola-soy-rodney
And that’s it. Below are my class offerings and I add new classes on a regular basis.
Conversational Spanish - Learn how to converse with anybody
Describing Your Family
Describing your first airplane ride
In this lesson we'll get some practice with past tense (preterite and imperfect) verbs as we listen to native Spanish speakers describe their first airplane ride.
Describing your health and fitness routine
Learn the vocabulary and expressions to talk about your diet and exercise habits.
You'll hear authentic audio of native speakers with diverse accents describing their health and fitness routines.
Describing yourself to others
In this class you'll learn how give someone basic information about yourself and describe your physical characteristics and personality traits.
Introducing yourself and a friend
In this class you'll learn the vocabulary and phrases to make introductions in Spanish and watch videos of native speakers describe how they typically introduce themselves and others.
Learn how to start a conversation and get to know someone
We'll listen to and analysis authentic audio of native Spanish speakers sharing how they start a conversation and the questions they ask to get to know someone they just met.
Learn vocabulary for everyday items
In addition to improving your listening and comprehension skills, you'll learn a lot of high frequency vocabulary and verbs for common items and everyday tasks.
Saying 'Goodbye' in Spanish
Saying goodbye in Spanish in the real world involves a lot more than the word "adios".
In this class you'll learn the everyday words and expressions used to say goodbye in real life conversations.
You'll also hear native speakers explaining social customs and the appropriate greetings to use in formal and informal settings.
Talking about where you're from
Talking about your favorite foods
Grammar Classes - Learn the rules of the language
Understanding Ser and Estar
Spanish has two verbs that mean "to be".
In this class you'll learn the differences between them and how to correctly use them in conversation.
Understanding the prepositions POR and PARA
It can be extremely confusing to understand the differences between these two prepositions. Many times a sentence can take either preposition, which confuses the situation even more.
We'll examine por and para in detail by looking at them in context with lots of examples and exercises to make sure you know which one to use, and why.
Learn the simple past tense
Learn the Imperfect Past Tense
Learn the fundamentals of reflexive verbs
Learn the conditional tense
Intro to the present subjunctive with Querer que, Esperar que and Ojalá
In this class you'll learn the basics of the present subjunctive mood by focusing on three common subjunctive triggers: querer que, esperar que and ojalá.
You'll also learn several everyday subjunctive phrases that you can start using immediately in conversation.
Learn the Future Tense
Understanding Hay, Había and Hubo
These three conjugations of the verb Haber are used to say "there is" and "there are" in Spanish, but can sometimes can be confusing. Learn how to use them properly in spoken Spanish by examining their use in context and working with numerous examples.
Beyond the classroom - Everything the textbooks don't teach you
Swearing in Spanish
Learn to swear and other taboo and politically incorrect Spanish words and expressions
In this class we take a look at the most common swear words and discuss their meanings, how offensive they are and how their meanings vary between countries. You'll also learn euphemisms to avoid swearing when you need to.
Because each country has it's own words and preferences, we'll cover the common terms that everyone understands as well as looking at words specific to Mexico, Colombia, Spain and the Dominican Republic.
This is the real deal, I'll teach you the exact English equivalents so you can be confident that you'll fully understand what you're saying, and perhaps more importantly, what others are saying.
Understanding Diminutives, Augmentatives and Superlatives
Have you ever seen or heard words like bajito, chiquita, grandote, casita, casona or momentico?
In this class you'll learn the meanings of these words, where they come from, how to form them and how Spanish speakers use them in everyday speech.
Understanding Ya and Ahorita
Are you confused by Ya, Todavia and Ahorita?
This class looks at the similarities and differences between these terms so that you'll understand when, why and how to use them, with a strong emphasis on the use of 'ahorita' in Mexico.
Regional Spanish - Learn to speak like a local
Introduction to Colombian Spanish
Learn some of the characteristics, slang, words and expressions particular or unique to Colombian Spanish.
Social Tasks - Spanish for everyday situations
Buying Clothing
Describing cold and flu symptoms, aches and pains to a doctor
Learn the vocabulary and expressions to talk about everyday aches and pains along with common illnesses like the cold and flu.
You'll hear authentic audio of native speakers from all over the Spanish speaking world describing their health issues to a doctor.
In the Bar
Negotiating a taxi ride
Ordering food in a restaurant
In this class you'll learn how to order a meal like a native speaker, useful restaurant phrases and vocabulary for many common foods.
You'll hear authentic audio of native speakers from different parts of the Spanish speaking world describing how they order a meal.
Talking on the telephone
Focused Verb Studies - An in-depth study of common Spanish verbs
Olvidar and Olvidarse
There are at least three ways to say that you forgot something in Spanish. In this class we'll discuss the differences between each of them.
Faltar
Quedarse
Quedarse is often confused with the verb quedar. In this class I’m going to clear up that confusion by teaching you the most common uses of this highly used Spanish verb.
Hacer
Hacer means "to do"or "to make", but it has many other uses. This class will teach you several other ways Hacer is used in conversational Spanish.