Lesson 1. Welcome to Spanish dialogs and phrases. We’ll start by working on pronouncing things the Spanish way, learning Spanish vowel sounds. We’ll focus on saying the names of major cities, and we’ll start to learn some Spanish numbers. And we’ll show you how to best use those middle school Spanish worksheets that go along with the lessons.

Lesson 2: We will learn Spanish greetings and basic Spanish phrases such as “Hola,” which means “Hello.” We’ll learn some less formal greetings too, like how to say “What’s up dude?” in Spanish. And we will learn about Mexican and South American Culture, including how to properly use formal greetings as a sign of respect. You wouldn’t, for example, say “What’s up dude?” to grandma.

Lesson 3: A major aspect of our middle school language arts curriculum for homeschool is using positive expressions to create inclusiveness in the classroom. We’ll learn how to properly validate and praise each other with expressions like, “Cool,” “Nice,” “Good Job,” “Well done,” etc., plus more fun, positive Spanish expressions that just don’t translate well to English. These expressions are really helpful to keep those Spanish conversations going once you get one started!

Lesson 4: The online conversational homeschool Spanish curriculum really gets going with this lesson, in which we simulate our first conversation between two people. It’s a simple conversation asking if you’ve gone to some specific place, with either an affirmative or negative response. We’ll explore dozens of variations of the scripted dialog between teacher and student, student and student, and even student and their family to practice at home. There’s a video so you won’t get lost practicing at home, plus our foolproof script that just won’t let you make all those silly errors that beginner Spanish speakers would normally make.

Lesson 5: We’ll continue the conversation by adding some variations to the scripted dialog. The learners will develop several ways to explain whether or not they’ve been somewhere, so that a natural sounding Spanish conversation can occur.

Lesson 6: We’ll take the Spanish conversation deeper by saying when you’ve been to some place.

Lesson 7: We add how to say what you saw when you were there to the Spanish conversation. At this point, learners will have access to literally thousands of possible script variations to explore many conversations. We’ll have the ability to have some serious conversations as well as some funny ones too.

Lesson 8: We will learn to say both where we’ve been, and also where we were planning to go but then didn’t. We’ll learn how to say your family members in Spanish, so we can develop a rich conversations about where we’ve been, intended to go, and/or didn’t go with various family members.

Lesson 9: We’ll add the ability to inquire where some place is and get directions. We’ll focus on describing locations as a means to deepen the conversation.

Lesson 10: We’ll finish by learning how to talk about where you might go in the future. By lesson 10, the learners will have the ability to have a complete conversation, in Spanish, about describing places they’ve been to or plan to go to. People who travel or work abroad like to have this type of conversation, so we think it’s a really important and useful first Spanish conversation to learn.