The Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass is open for registration!
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Hola a todos, y bienvenidos. [Hi everyone and welcome.]
Yo soy Mark de Coffee Break Spanish [I'm Mark from Coffee Break Spanish]
y estoy muy contento [and I'm very happy]
de estar aquí con vosotros. [to be here with you.]
I'm here to tell you about the Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass
which is our course for intermediate Spanish learners.
Now let me tell you a little about the Masterclass.
We asked our learners, what are your greatest challenges
as an intermediate learner of Spanish?
and some of answers that our learners came up with included:
so in order to address these needs,
we came up with the Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass
which is an online course lasting 6 months.
Each month you get a different module so there are 6 modules
spread out over the 6 months and these are short, regular sessions
allowing you to build your language skills over the course of the 6 months.
It's structured learning so we're focusing on developing different points
and helping you build your skills through audio, text
and video materials, and this is "Coffee Break" learning,
so it's 20-minute sessions and if you can manage
20-minute sessions 3 or 4 times a week, then
the Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass is perfect for you.
Now the Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass is organised
over six months and each month there are a number of lessons
that are published. So let's take a look at what the schedule
looks like. In each month, there are five main lessons,
and these are published on the 1st, the 4th and the 8th of the month
and then there's an exercise before we move on to lessons 4 and 5
on the 15th and the 18th of the month
and that means that from the 18th of the month onwards,
it's all about consolidation.
So you'll be consolidating what you've learned
in those first five lessons in the month.
And to help you consolidate what you've learned,
we provide additional materials such as a checklist
a video review, and the test at the end of the month.
Now the Masterclass is organised in 6 monthly modules
so there are 6 months, and we focus on a different topic
each month. We start with "frases hechas", idiomatic expressions
helping you develop your range of expression, and to use
these idiomatic expressions to sound more Spanish when you talk.
In month 2 the focus is on tricky verbs
so it's verbs - perhaps you're familiar with these verbs, but
you don't know all the meanings of the verbs, and how to use them
in particular scenarios, so that's module 2 on tricky verbs.
Module 3 looks at False Friends, and these are words that
you think you know what they mean, but in fact they mean
something different, so it's all about developing your vocabulary.
Module 4 is looking at tenses, and we cover a variety of tenses
over this module, including the perfect, the preterite
the imperfect, the future and the conditional.
Then, when it comes to module 5, we're focusing on a topic that some
learners find really difficult and that is the subjunctive.
The subjunctive is not something to fear, it's not something
to worry about, and we'll help you understand what the subjunctive is,
how it's used, and the triggers that result in you needing to use
the subjunctive, and of course how to form the subjunctive also.
And in the 6th month, we're focusing on what we call
tricky Spanish, so some of those really tricky aspects of Spanish
including things like por and para, qué and cuál, the personal 'a'
and so on, so tricky things that trip up many learners.
So, to sum up, we're looking at 6 modules over the course of 6 months
and each module features 5 lessons, and within each lesson there's
audio, there's text and there's video review for the whole module.
And we also offer homework activities, where you can practise
what you've learned and we provide guaranteed feedback
on your homework activities, so you'll see your homework
you'll see your corrections, but you'll also see
the corrections of the other members of the group, because
this is a learning community,
where you can learn along with the other members.
The Masterclass is perfect if you want to take your
intermediate Spanish to the next level and you can
register today to take part in the Coffee Break Spanish Masterclass
Simply go to coffeebreakspanishmasterclass.com
I hope that this has been a useful introduction to the Masterclass
Thanks for watching.
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