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FSI Spanish Basic Course is the perfect complement to any other Spanish learning material.
You can study the complete course or just focus on units you are interested in.
You can study the complete course or just focus on units you are interested in.
IMPORTANT
FSI Spanish is a massive course. In this enhanced edition, you will find all the components of the original course (sometimes with minor modifications). If you find some parts too difficult, or too repetitive, or not to your taste - don't hesitate to skip them. The vocabulary and the grammatical structures are constantly repeated and will appear again and again. Don't get stuck and don't aim for perfection! Just move forward, and your Spanish will get better and better!
FSI Spanish is a massive course. In this enhanced edition, you will find all the components of the original course (sometimes with minor modifications). If you find some parts too difficult, or too repetitive, or not to your taste - don't hesitate to skip them. The vocabulary and the grammatical structures are constantly repeated and will appear again and again. Don't get stuck and don't aim for perfection! Just move forward, and your Spanish will get better and better!
Level 1
Unit 1 Useful Phrases I
Unit 3 Arriving in Surlandia
Unit 4 At the Embassy
Unit 5 First Day at Work
Unit 6 Having Lunch
Unit 7 Looking for an Apartment
Unit 8 The Neighbor's Apartment
Unit 9 At a Friend's Apartment
Unit 10 Laundry and Cleaning
Unit 11 Interviewing
Unit 12 No Water
Unit 13 At a Party
Unit 14 Family
Unit 15 Going through Customs
- Pronunciation
- Counting to 29
- Pronunciation
- Some demonstratives: esto, eso
Unit 3 Arriving in Surlandia
- Gender of singular nouns and adjectives
Unit 4 At the Embassy
- Number in nouns, adjectives and articles
- The irregular verb estar
Unit 5 First Day at Work
- The irregular verb ser
Unit 6 Having Lunch
- Present tense forms of regular -ar verbs
- Semantic differences between está(n) and hay
- Review: Use of definite articles with titles
Unit 7 Looking for an Apartment
- Present tense forms of regular -er verbs
- The demonstratives este, ese, aquel
- Review: The distribution of ser and estar
Unit 8 The Neighbor's Apartment
- Present tense forms of regular -ir verbs
- The obligatory contractions: al, del
- Review: Noun-adjective agreement
Unit 9 At a Friend's Apartment
- The present perfect: haber + past participle (-do form)
- Possessive adjectives: Long forms
- Review: Adjective position
Unit 10 Laundry and Cleaning
- Personal a
- Direct clitic pronouns
- Past participles functioning as modifiers
- Review: Present tense forms
Unit 11 Interviewing
- Possessives: Short forms
- The negative particle no with verbs
- Review: Unemphatic 'some, any' from English
Unit 12 No Water
- Subject pronouns
- Pronouns after prepositions
- Components of phrases: con, sin, después, antes de
- Statement intonation patterns: Normal and contrastive statements
- Review: Adjective agreement in remote position
Unit 13 At a Party
- The gerund (-ndo form) and the present continuous
- Possessive constructions with de
- Nominalized possessive constructions
- Question intonation patterns: Information questions
- Review: Placement of negative particle no
Unit 14 Family
- Present tense forms of the irregular verbs ir, dar, ver
- The periphrastic future construction
- Question intonation patterns: Yes-no questions
- Review: The present perfect
Unit 15 Going through Customs
- Indirect clitic pronouns: One object
- Indirect clitic pronouns: Two objects
- Question intonation patterns: Yes questions
- Review: Possessive constructions
Level 2
Unit 16 Sightseeing
Unit 17 Social Life
Unit 18 Discussing Work
Unit 19 Visit to Air Mission I
Unit 20 Visit to Air Mission II
Unit 21 The Weather
Unit 23 At the Market
Unit 24 In the Stores
Unit 25 A Visa Interview I
Unit 26 A Visa Interview II
Unit 27 Sports
Unit 28 At the Golf Course
Unit 29 At the Tennis Court
Unit 30 Bullfighting
- Redundant constructions with indirect clitic pronouns
- Question intonation patterns: No questions
- Review: Masculine demonstrative forms
- Reading: Los Nuevos Vecinos
Unit 17 Social Life
- Preterite tense forms of regular verbs
- Question intonation patterns: Affirmative confirmation questions
- Review: Possessive phrases with quién
- Reading: Comentando
Unit 18 Discussing Work
- Imperfect tense forms of regular verbs
- Imperfect tense forms of irregular verbs
- Question intonation patterns: Negative confirmation questions
- Review: Word order in information questions
- Reading: Comentando (continuación)
Unit 19 Visit to Air Mission I
- Preterite and imperfect in the same construction
- Question intonation patterns: Echo questions
- Review: Spanish simple tense for English verb construction in interrogations
- Reading: Los Robinson
Unit 20 Visit to Air Mission II
- Direct and indirect clitics in the same construction
- Exclamatory qué, cómo
- Question intonation patterns: Choice questions
- Review: Postposed full-form possessives
- Reading: La Primera Visita
Unit 21 The Weather
- Irregular preterite forms
- The verb dar
- Verbs with extended stems: estar, andar, traer
- Verbs with modified stems: poder, traducir
- Verbs with suppleted stems: ser, ir
- Review: Imperfect tense forms
- Reading: Plan de Estudiar
- Present tense irregular verbs
- Stem vowel changing: poder, querer, seguir
- Statement intonation patterns: Sentence modifiers
- Review: Preterite tense forms
- Reading: Jane and Ruth
Unit 23 At the Market
- Present tense irregular verbs
- Velar stem extensions: conocer, salir
- Mixed stem-vowel changing and velar stem extensions: venir, tener
- Mixed miscellaneous: caer, traer, oír, hacer, decir, saber
- Statement intonation patterns: Leave-takings
- Review: The obligatory clause relator que
- Reading: ¿Quién Rompió los Platos?
Unit 24 In the Stores
- Reflexive clitic pronouns
- Chart of clitic pronouns
- Reflexive clitic pronouns with progressive and periphrastic future verb constructions
- Expressions for time of day
- Review: Gender class assignment of certain nouns (I)
- Reading: Los Fuentes se Despiden
Unit 25 A Visa Interview I
- Reflexive and indirect clitic pronouns in the same construction
- Review: Verb-subject order in certain dependent clauses
- Reading: Señora Sistemática
Unit 26 A Visa Interview II
- Reflexive and direct clitic pronouns in the same construction
- Reflexives with no designated agents
- Review: Gender class assignment of certain nouns (II)
- Reading: Día de Mercado
Unit 27 Sports
- Formal imperative forms for regular verbs
- Formal imperative forms for irregular verbs
- Familiar imperative forms for regular verbs
- Familiar imperative forms for irregular verbs
- Review: Nominalized possessives
- Reading: La Técnica de Comprar
Unit 28 At the Golf Course
- Indirect imperative forms
- Hortatory (1st person) imperative forms
- Review: Preterite tense forms
- Reading: Ciudades Latinoamericanas
Unit 29 At the Tennis Court
- Clitic pronouns
- with imperative forms
- with infinitives
- with -ndo forms
- Review: Present perfect
- Reading: El Barrio Viejo de Las Palmas
Unit 30 Bullfighting
- General review
- Reading: En el Mercado
Level 3
Unit 31 At a Dinner Party
Unit 32 A Conversation after Dinner
Unit 33 Saying Goodbye
Unit 34 Talking Economics
Unit 35 A Country Barbecue
Unit 36 A Phone Call
Unit 37 A Cocktail Party
Unit 38 Giving up Smoking
Unit 39 Buying a Car
Unit 40 Mourning a Grandmother
Unit 41 A Student Strike
Unit 42 At the Barber Shop
Unit 43 At the Gas Station
Unit 44 At the Beach
Unit 45 A Baptism
- Past progressive
- Review
- Nominalized verb forms as subject of a sentence
- Gerund (-ndo forms) in absolute constructions
- Reading: Los Negocios en Surlandia
Unit 32 A Conversation after Dinner
- Cardinal numbers, days of the week, months of the year
- Some semantic correlations:
- saber-conocer
- preguntar-pedir
- Review: Strong stress as a function differentiator in verbs
- Reading 1: Resultados del Viaje a Surlandia
- Reading 2: Presidente Inaugura La Represa del Río Chico
Unit 33 Saying Goodbye
- Articles before nominalized adjectives
- Ordinal numbers
- Review
- Reflexive pronouns
- Definite articles with days of the week and time expressions
- Reading 1: El Viaje
- Reading 2: Geografía de Surlandia
Unit 34 Talking Economics
- The prepositions por and para
- Colors
- Review
- gustar, faltar, parecer
- Progressive construction in questions
- Reading 1: Unas Cartas
- Reading 2: Progreso Urbano y Facilidades Públicas
Unit 35 A Country Barbecue
- Nominalization of articles
- Some semantic correlations
- tomar-llevar
- salir-dejar
- Review
- Position of the pronouns in commands
- Agreement of adjectives: hundreds
- Reading 1: Feliz Coincidencia
- Reading 2: Problemas de Educación
Unit 36 A Phone Call
- Present subjunctive (after ojalá)
- Review
- Spanish infinitive for English -ing forms
- Placement of verb modifiers
- Reading 1: Una Visita al Campo
- Reading 2: Surlandia y su Economía
Unit 37 A Cocktail Party
- Present subjunctive in noun clauses functioning as the object of a verb
- Review
- Indefinite adjectives as modifiers
- Genders in demonstratives
- Reading 1: Una Carta
- Reading 2: Historia y Desarrollo Político de Surlandia
Unit 38 Giving up Smoking
- Present subjunctive in noun clauses functioning as the subject of a verb
- Review
- Use of definite articles with gustar
- Use of indefinite articles with modified nouns after ser
- Reading 1: Conflictos Internacionales
- Reading 2: Orígenes del Panamericanismo
Unit 39 Buying a Car
- The diminutive suffix -ito
- The intensive suffix -ísimo
- Adverbs in -mente
- Review
- Verbs with included subject
- The adjective todo
- Reading 1: Los Primeros Días
- Reading 2: La Organización de los Estados Americanos y su Campo Social
Unit 40 Mourning a Grandmother
- Present subjunctive in relative clauses
- Review
- Adjective position: obligatory postposed adjectives
- Nominalization of demonstratives
- Reading 1: Solución del Conflicto
- Reading 2: La Organización de los Estados Americanos y la Paz y Seguridad del Continente
Unit 41 A Student Strike
- Present subjunctive in subordinate clauses: obligatory occurence
- Review
- Prepositions
- Nominalization of possessives
- Reading 1: Un Robo
- Reading 2: Policía Propónese Terminar con Criminales
Unit 42 At the Barber Shop
- Present subjunctive in subordinate clauses: conditioned occurence
- Review
- Prepositions + que
- Nominalization of adjectives
- Reading 1: Un Incidente de Tránsito
- Reading 2: ¡Oh, el Tránsito!
Unit 43 At the Gas Station
- Comparison of inequality
- The position of no in expressing contradictions and reservations
- Review
- Spanish verb = English verb + preposition
- Nominalization of definite articles
- Reading 1: Comprando un automóvil
- Reading 2: Los Problemas del Transporte en Latinoamérica (I)
Unit 44 At the Beach
- Comparison of equality
- Exclamatory expressions
- Irregular past participles
- Review
- Spanish verb + verb = English verb + preposition + verb
- Stress pattern contrast in preterit forms
- Reading 1: La Carrera Panamericana
- Reading 2: Los Problemas del Transporte en Latinoamérica (II)
Unit 45 A Baptism
- The pluperfect tense
- The shortening of certain adjectives
- The past participle of postures
- Review
- Spanish verb + adjective + verb = English verb + adjective + to + verb
- Present subjunctive forms
- Reading 1: Los Pequeños Problemas de los Phillips
- Reading 2: Un Informe Semi-Annual
Level 4
Unit 46 Getting Sick
Unit 47 Discussing Language
Unit 48 The Binational Centers
Unit 49 Running for Congress
Unit 50 Adapting to Life in Surlandia
- Comparison of identity and similarity
- Word order: subject and verb
- Position of adverbial phrase modifier
- Review
- Spanish verb + preposition + object = English verb + object
- Spanish reflexive verb + preposition + object = English verb + object
- Stem changing verbs in present tense
- Nominalization in comparisons
- Reading: Una Convención de la Federación Interamericana de Comercio
Unit 47 Discussing Language
- The imperfect subjunctive
- The present perfect and pluperfect subjunctives
- Review
- Spanish verb + a/de + infinitive
- Spanish verb + que/en + infinitive
- The intensifier mismo
- Hortatory reflexives
- Reading: Un Día Memorable
Unit 48 The Binational Centers
- The conditional tense and the perfect conditional construction
- Conditional sentences with a subjunctive verb and a conditional verb
- The periphrastic conditional
- Review
- The neuter article lo with nominalized adjectives
- Stem changing verbs in preterite
- The present progressive construction with alternate conjugated verbs
- Reading: Progreso y Salud Pública
Unit 49 Running for Congress
- The future tense and the future perfect construction
- Conditional sentences
- Review
- Irregular present / Irregular preterite forms
- Gender in pronouns after prepositions: Inanimate objects
- Gender in pronouns after prepositions: Personal objects
- Spanish subjunctive = English infinitive
- Reading: Mediodía en la Capital
Unit 50 Adapting to Life in Surlandia
- Imperfect subjunctive in main clauses
- Imperfect and pluperfect subjunctive after ojalá, aunque and como si
- Review
- Spanish indirect pronoun for English 'for'
- Tú imperative: affirmative and negative
- Preterite, pluperfect, and perfect in contrast
- Reading: La Lotería y Ud.