Spanish Language Courses at Minerva
Five days a week for 5 hours each day you'll receive an intensive Spanish Language Course at Minerva Spanish School. In our school there is one-to-one personalized instruction with certified teachers who are specialized in teaching Spanish as a second language. This means that you, together with your teacher, can focus on your essential needs. Our teachers will ensure that you have fun while you are learning the Spanish language and the Guatemalan culture.
At the beginning of your first class we will offer you a test to discover the strengths and weaknesses in your Spanish language ability. We can then focus on pronunciation, listening, writing or a combination of these areas. The school uses literature, grammar books, magazines, games, films, and combinations of all these materials to create a quality and effective learning environment.
Minerva Spanish School
offers programs at levels
Beginner, Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and Superior.
Our school is the only
school in Latin America and Spain that gives
you the possibility to write a thesis (superior
level in Spanish). Our programs are comparable
with the programs in
the American and European
universities. See College
Credit.
We also offers the following
"SPECIAL SPANISH COURSES "
BEGINNER LEVEL
1.
Mini-dialogues in Survival.
A.
Greetings
B. The singular definite article
C. The grammatical persons
D. Basic vocabulary
2.
Simple Intensive
Spanish Programs
in the Indicative Mood (Regular verbs)
A.
Present tense
B. Future tense
C. Simple past (preterit) tense
D. Imperfect past tense
3.
The grammatical article
A.
Definite article: masculine, feminine, singular,
plural and neuter
B. Indefinite article: masculine, feminine, singular and plural
C. Contractions: de+el (del) and a+el (al)
4.
The cardinal numbers
5. The ordinal numbers
6. Colors
7. Fruits and vegetables
8. The days of the week
9. The months of the year
10. Vocabulary of the home and person
11. Time
12. The body
*Beginner Level program supplemented
by reading, writing, composition, oral comprehension
exercises, conversation and translation.
BASIC LEVEL
1. Conjugation
of the simple tenses in the Indicative mood
A.
Present, future, preterit and imperfect
(irregular
verbs)
B. The verbs Ser and Estar (uses and meanings)
C. The verbs Saber and Conocer
(uses & meanings)
D. The verbs Haber and Tener (uses & meanings)
E. Common irregular verbs (uses & meanings)
2.
Conjugation of the progressive tenses in the
Indicative mood
3. Conjugation of the Perfect tenses in the Indicative mood
4. The “Popular Future” or periphrastic tense
5. Grammatical gender and number
6. Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
7. Possessive adjectives and pronouns
8. Sentence structure (affirmative, negative, interrogative)
9. The noun (classification and uses of nouns)
A.
Augmentative
B. Diminutive
C. Pejorative
D. Root and derivative
E. Nationality
F. Collective, fractional and multiple
10.
The Adverb (classes, uses and meanings)
11. Common adverbial modes (uses and meanings)
*Basic program supplemented
by reading, writing, composition, oral comprehension exercises, dictation,
conversation and translation.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
1. The conditional
mood (simple and compound)
2. The imperative mood (affirmative and negative)
3. The pronoun
A.
Personal
B. Possessive
C. Indefinite
D. Demonstrative
E. Relative
F. Interrogative
3.
Reflexive verbs (conjugation, uses, meanings)
4. The preposition (uses and meanings)
A.
The difference between por and para
5.
Prefixes
6. The interjection
7. The infinitive (uses and meanings)
8. The gerund (uses and meanings)
9. The participle
10. Idiomatic constructions
A.
Verbs with prepositions
B. Verbs plus infinitive
*Basic
program supplemented by reading, writing, composition,
oral comprehension exercises, dictation, conversation
and translation.
ADVANCED
LEVEL
1. The subjunctive mood (uses and meanings)
A.
Simple present
B. Simple past
C. Present perfect
D. Past perfect
2.
The conjunction (uses and meanings)
3. Comparative and superlative adjective forms
4. Synonyms and antonyms, homonyms
5. Composition and formal correspondence
6. Intensive reading and writing
7. Introduction to literature
A.
Selections from national literature
B. Selections from world literature
8.
Detailed recapitulation
9. Dynamic conversation
10. Literal and figurative meanings in Spanish
11. Poems and songs
*Basic program supplemented by reading, writing, composition, oral comprehension
exercises, dictation, conversation and translation.
SUPERIOR
LEVEL
1. Idiomatic uses with verbs
A.
With the verb DAR
B. With the verb HABER
C. With the verb HACER
D. With the verb TENER
2.
Idiomatic and colloquial uses most common in
the
Castilian language
3. The common language roots between Spanish and English
4. Introduction to Etymology
A.
Greek etymologies of the Castilian language
B. Latin etymologies of the Castilian language
5.
Riddles and tongue-twisters
6. Synonyms and Antonyms
7. Selected poems and songs
8. Literature
A.
National literature
B. Hispanic literature
C. Global literature
9.
The subjunctive mood
A.
The simple future
B. The perfect future
10.
Thesis
A.
The student will write a thesis about a selected
area of the Spanish language and/or other themes
concerning Guatemalan culture, history, anthropology,
etc.
11.
Oral presentation of the thesis to the student
body of Minerva Spanish School.
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