Reading Spanish, An On-Line Spanish Course

Torre del Oro, Seville
© New York Times, 1998

• Introduction
• Lesson One - Using the Dictionary
  • Dictionary Reference
• Lesson Two - Pronunciation and Spelling
  • Writing Spanish On Your Computer
• Lesson Three - Nouns and Adjectives
  • More on Demonstrative Adjectives
• Lesson Four - The Present Tense of Regular Verbs
• Lesson Five - Irregular Verbs in the Present Tense
• Lesson Six - Sentence Structure (I). Sentence Building Blocks.
• Lesson Seven - Prepositions.
• Lesson Eight - More on Articles.
• Lesson Nine - The Past Tenses.
• Lesson Ten - Possessives and Numbers.
• Lesson Eleven - Nouns to Memorize; Another Reading
• Lesson Twelve - The Perfect Tenses
• Lesson Thirteen - Understanding Sentences: The Role of Verb Objects
• Lesson Fourteen - Verb Object Pronouns

• Tasks s
  • Lesson 1 - Using the dictionary
  • Lesson 2 has no assignment.
  • Lesson 3 - The assignment is the reading.
  • Lesson 4 - Assignment finding infinitives and cognates.
  • Lesson 5 - The assignment is the reading.
  • Lesson 6
    • Assignment 1 - The function of infinitives.
    • Assignment 2 - Translation of simple sentences.
  • Lesson 7 - Words to Memorize, I. - Prepositions
  • Lesson 8 - The assignment is the reading.
  • Lesson 9
    • Small assignment on finding infinitives.
    • Reading Assignment
  • Lesson 10
    • Small exercise on possessives.
    • Reading assignment.
  • Lesson 11
    • Reading Assignment.
  • Lesson 12
    • Exercise on perfect tenses and past participles.
  • Lesson 13
    • Small assignments on verb objects: 1 2.
  • Lesson 14
    • Small assignment on verb objects.

• Readings
  • Reading 1 - Una introducción a España
    • Translation of Reading 1.
  • Reading 2 - Problemas hispanoamericanos
    • Translation of Reading 2.
  • Reading 3 - Lo importante de la vida, en Hispanoamérica y en los Estados Unidos.
    • Translation of Reading 3.
  • Reading 4 - España, un país judío
    • Translation of Reading 4.
  • Reading 5 - La población de España en los siglos dieciséis y veinte
    • Translation of Reading 5.
  • Reading 6 - El padre Las Casas
    • Translation of Reading 6.
  • Reading 7 - Santa Teresa, fundadora de conventos

• Words to memorize
  • Some basic words.
  • Prepositions.
  • Adjectives
  • Nouns

• Tools
  • Index of Verb Endings (Present, Imperfect, Preterite, Infinitive, Gerund)
  • Index of Verb Endings (Comprehensive)
  • Irregular and Problematic Verb Stems in the Present Tense
  • Index of Irregular and Problematic Verb Stems (Comprehensive)
  • Table of Pronouns
  • Alphabetical Index of Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives