university levels of education Spanish I — V
Five courses in one reader, from the alphabet to the Spanish of boardrooms, contracts and newsrooms — handmade, no ads, no sign-ups. A hundred and five written lectures with Spanish examples throughout, three hundred and thirty-five worked examples solved step by step with the reasoning shown, four hundred and twenty practice questions with hints and answers, quizzes for every lecture, and two hundred and thirty unsolved exercises to do on your own, in nineteen ways of studying including a continuous read of a whole course. The original studio, with its five-language interface and its reading wing of eighteen graded articles, stays on as the last entry. Start at whichever level you need; the next-to-last entry opens all five courses as one book.
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Spanish I
Foundations: Sounds, the Present Tense, and Daily Speech. The ground floor of the language in eight chapters — the sounds and first words, nouns with their genders and articles, ser, estar and haber, the whole regular present tense, then stem-changing and irregular verbs, the pronoun system and possession, reflexive daily life, and describing, comparing and going places. Twenty-seven lectures, 324 questions. Every lecture carries a written explanation with Spanish examples throughout, a table of the phrases and forms that matter, defined terms and the mistakes to watch for, worked examples revealed step by step with the reasoning beside each step, practice questions with hints, a quiz, and unsolved exercises to do on your own, studied through nineteen modes, from flashcards and drills to timed exams and a continuous read of the whole course as one page.
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Spanish II
The Past Tenses, Commands, the Future and the Compound Tenses. The tense system beyond the present — the preterite and the imperfect one at a time and then the art of choosing between them, pronouns, negatives and time expressions, commands in every person, the future and the conditional, the perfect tenses, and the relatives and connectors that let sentences grow. Twenty-three lectures, 276 questions. Every lecture carries a written explanation with Spanish examples throughout, a table of the phrases and forms that matter, defined terms and the mistakes to watch for, worked examples revealed step by step with the reasoning beside each step, practice questions with hints, a quiz, and unsolved exercises to do on your own, studied through nineteen modes, from flashcards and drills to timed exams and a continuous read of the whole course as one page.
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Spanish III
The Subjunctive, from First Forms to Conditional Sentences. The mood English barely has, taken slowly — forming the present subjunctive and using it in noun, adjective and adverbial clauses, then the imperfect subjunctive, the three families of conditional sentences, the compound subjunctives, and the register and nuance that decide when the mood appears at all. Seventeen lectures, 204 questions. Every lecture carries a written explanation with Spanish examples throughout, a table of the phrases and forms that matter, defined terms and the mistakes to watch for, worked examples revealed step by step with the reasoning beside each step, practice questions with hints, a quiz, and unsolved exercises to do on your own, studied through nineteen modes, from flashcards and drills to timed exams and a continuous read of the whole course as one page.
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Spanish IV
Voice, se, Advanced Syntax, Idiom and Variation. The advanced machinery — the many uses of se and the passive voice, prepositions and the verbs that govern them, infinitives, gerunds and participles, the building of long sentences, then idiom and the traps of translation, word formation, variation across the Spanish-speaking world, and register in written style. Eighteen lectures, 216 questions. Every lecture carries a written explanation with Spanish examples throughout, a table of the phrases and forms that matter, defined terms and the mistakes to watch for, worked examples revealed step by step with the reasoning beside each step, practice questions with hints, a quiz, and unsolved exercises to do on your own, studied through nineteen modes, from flashcards and drills to timed exams and a continuous read of the whole course as one page.
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Spanish V
Professional Spanish: the Workplace, Formal Writing, Specialised Fields and Mastery. The capstone course — formal address and the grammar of respect, job applications, professional email, meetings, presentations and calls; register, RAE orthography, connectors, reports and academic prose; the vocabularies of business, law, medicine, technology and the media; and the last mile toward mastery, from false friends at the professional level and the map of the Spanish-speaking world to collocation, debate, and polishing your own style. Twenty lectures, 260 questions. Every lecture carries a written explanation with Spanish examples throughout, a table of the phrases and forms that matter, defined terms and the mistakes to watch for, worked examples revealed step by step with the reasoning beside each step, practice questions with hints, a quiz, and unsolved exercises to do on your own, studied through nineteen modes, from flashcards and drills to timed exams and a continuous read of the whole course as one page.
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The whole of Spanish
Every level at once — all five courses, thirty-six chapters, 105 lectures and 1,280 questions read as one book. The whole-course view strings every lecture into a single continuous page from the first sounds to professional style, the phrase sheet and glossary pool the entire language, and mixed exams draw questions from all five courses at once. This is the one to open when you want to read Spanish from the beginning or revise across course boundaries rather than work through a single level.
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The Spanish studio and reading articles
The original Spanish studio, kept in full: the same eighty-five topics as an arcade of drill modes with a five-language interface, and the reading wing of eighteen graded articles — nearly nine thousand words of Spanish with a hideable translation, a glossary and comprehension questions for each. Open this for graded reading practice or for the old drill-arcade way of working through the topics.
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