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Try our free beginning level Spanish course (No-Frills Spanish). This is a serious course but the format is simple. Listen to the audio explanations and then try the exercises. The exercises are drills to help you sharpen your skills and are intended to make you a creator of the language. Say goodbye to canned phrases! The classes correspond to the topics presented in most Spanish 101 university courses. If you are a college student taking Spanish, use these classes as extra practice.

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No-Frills Spanish
Level 1, Class 1 - Class 5

Here are the class notes and exercises for you to print out or view while you listen to each corresponding audio. Scan through them before listening to each audio. Click to listen or right click to download to your desktop, laptop or portable device.

Class 1 - The present tense of regular verbs. Learn how to create thousands of your own original sentences in just one lesson! Expand on that with the following lessons. You can do it! Believe you can!

Class 2 - More of the present tense

Class 3 - ser vs. estar

Class 4 - Stem-changing verbs

Class 5 - Review of level 1

Bonus phrase sheet - Greetings, Introductions and fare-wells

Here are the corresponding audio files. Over 3 hours of audio explanations and exercises!

Introduction - find out why it is called 'No-Frills' Spanish and background information on the intent and suggested use of this course.

Class1 - vocabulary. Memorize this core vocabulary. It's really not that much and is recycled throughout the course.

Class 1 - explanation

Class 1 - exercises

Class 2 - explanation

Class 2 - exercises

Class 3 - explanation

Class 3 - exercises

Class 4 - explanation

Class 4 - exercises

Class 5 - review

Class 5 - exercises, part 1

Class 5 - exercises, part 2

Greetings, Introductions and fare-wells.

If you like this course and wish to sharpen your skills, additional exercises are also in development and will be available soon at low cost.

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