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Spanish Conversational Basics
AI-generated course covering: Greeting & Connecting: Beyond Hola, Navigating Your World: Directions & Local Spots, My Day, My Life: Discussing Routines & Hobbies, Sharing Your Voice: Expressing Preferences & Opinions, Shop & Dine: Practical Transactions, Recounting Experiences: Simple Past Conversations
Intermediate
23 lessons
596 questions
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What you'll learn
This course is part of the Learn Spanish track on Tomadora. It covers 6 progressive modules with 23 bite-sized lessons, totalling 596 interactive questions including flashcards, multiple choice, true/false, typing, matching, and fill-in-the-blank.
Course syllabus
Greeting & Connecting: Beyond Hola
Move beyond basic introductions to engage in more meaningful daily interactions, asking about well-being, expressing simple needs, and mastering essential politeness phrases for deeper connections.
- Essential Greetings and Introductions (31 questions)
- Inquiring About Well-being and Responding (27 questions)
- Navigating Formal and Informal Greetings (15 questions)
- Initiating, Maintaining, and Concluding Simple Interactions (35 questions)
Navigating Your World: Directions & Local Spots
Gain confidence in asking for and giving directions, identifying key locations, and understanding public transport, empowering you to explore and interact with your surroundings.
- Asking the Way: Essential Phrases and Cardinal Directions (26 questions)
- Guiding the Way: Giving Directions and Prepositions of Place (34 questions)
- Exploring Local Spots: Naming Places and Simple Activities (26 questions)
- Navigating Your World: Putting it All Together (25 questions)
My Day, My Life: Discussing Routines & Hobbies
Learn to fluently describe your daily activities, routines, and hobbies, tell time, and discuss frequency, enabling you to share more about your personal life.
- Mi Día Empieza: Rutinas Matutinas y Vespertinas (29 questions)
- El Reloj y Mis Pasatiempos: Horarios y Aficiones (34 questions)
- Nuestras Vidas: Describiendo Rutinas y Hobbies (16 questions)
Sharing Your Voice: Expressing Preferences & Opinions
Master the art of sharing your likes, dislikes, and opinions with confidence, using verbs like 'gustar' and essential expressions to voice your thoughts clearly.
- Expressing Likes and Dislikes: "Me Gusta" (25 questions)
- Beyond "Me Gusta": More Ways to Express Preferences (22 questions)
- Forming and Stating Opinions: "Creo Que" (23 questions)
- Engaging in Conversational Debates: Asking and Sharing Views (28 questions)
Shop & Dine: Practical Transactions
Acquire the practical language needed for everyday transactions, from ordering food at a restaurant and making purchases in stores to asking for services and prices.
- Shopping Essentials: Basic Transactions (24 questions)
- Expanding Your Shopping Vocabulary & Payment (25 questions)
- Restaurant Ready: Reservations & Ordering (24 questions)
- Dining Out: Service & Settling the Bill (26 questions)
Recounting Experiences: Simple Past Conversations
Begin to narrate simple past events and share experiences using essential verbs in the preterite tense, allowing you to tell stories and describe what happened.
- Mastering Regular Preterite Verbs (21 questions)
- Navigating Common Irregular Preterite Verbs (24 questions)
- Structuring Your Past Stories: Time Markers and Connectors (32 questions)
- Recounting and Responding: Conversational Practice (24 questions)
Frequently asked questions
- What is the Spanish Conversational Basics course?
- Spanish Conversational Basics is a intermediate course on Tomadora covering 6 modules and 23 lessons. It is designed to be completed in 5-minute bursts during your work breaks, using a Pomodoro-style focus + learn cycle.
- How long does Spanish Conversational Basics take to finish?
- Each lesson takes about 5 minutes. With 23 lessons, you can finish the course in roughly 2 hours of total learning time, spread across as many breaks as you like.
- Is Spanish Conversational Basics free?
- Yes. Tomadora is free to download and the entire Learn Spanish track — including Spanish Conversational Basics — is free to learn.
- What level is Spanish Conversational Basics?
- Spanish Conversational Basics is rated Intermediate. Some familiarity with the basics is helpful but not required.
- What language is Spanish Conversational Basics taught in?
- Spanish Conversational Basics is taught in English.
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