Cursos de Spanish Chévere

 

  

This curriculum has nine different levels.
Level 0 is “survival Spanish”.
Levels 1-3 are “basic”.
Levels 4-6 are “intermediate”.
Levels 7-9 are “advanced”.

SURVIVAL
At the survival stage, you are just learning some key phrases and vocabulary that will help you get by when traveling in a Spanish-speaking country.

BASIC
At the end of this stage, you will be at a “hacked-conversational” level. Remember, we’re focusing on communication first, perfection later - so your teacher should correct a small percentage of your mistakes. A good teacher knows how to balance this, but for example, using the wrong gender should always be let slide at this point.
At a Basic stage, your main focus is on…
Pronunciation.
Building the foundation of grammar.
Enough vocab
Learn the “window words”.
You aren’t having many “conversations” at this point
Learn the most common 30 or so verbs

INTERMEDIATE
At this point, you have crossed the golden threshold from being rather hopeless, to actually being able to hack together conversations. You can now communicate!
What are you focusing on here?
A lot more vocab.
Honing your accent.
The remaining “core” grammar.
Lots of conversations.

ADVANCED
You are already conversationally-fluent.

That’s it!
This is pretty quick to read, but you’ll want to go back to where you are level-wise and start following the curriculum from there - actually studying the vocab, learning the new grammar, taking classes and having conversations.
Completing the entire process will take awhile. Remember, if you finish all the way to the end of Advanced (and most of you don’t really need to - finishing intermediate gets you to socially fluent, a high level of conversational), than you are completely fluent in Spanish. That will take some time.