Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Course Overview

1 Review of the Indicative Tenses
a. simple tenses: forms and uses
b. perfect tenses: forms and uses
c. verbs with two participles: differentiation

2 Review of the Subjunctive Tenses
a. simple tenses: conjugations, rules, exceptions
b. combination of tenses
c. perfect tenses: formation and exceptions

3 Infinitive Equivalency with Indicative and Subjunctive Forms
a. al + infinitive
b. de + infinitive
c. de + perfect infinitive
d. gerund
e. aun + gerund
f. participle

4 Direct, Indirect, and Reflexive Pronouns
a. differences concerning verb type
b. leismo

5 Uses of and differences between the prepositions por and para