Spanish Made Simple: Advanced Spanish (Udemy.com)
Take Your Spanish To The Next Level, Master Spanish Grammar, and Speak Like a Native
Created by: Mark Barnes
Last updated May 2023
What you will learn
- Your understanding of Spanish will greatly increase. By increasing your understanding your fluency will greatly increase, as well, and the more native you'll sound when you speak.
- You'll learn the pesky Spanish subjunctive.
- You'll learn how to use the command form of verbs.
- You'll learn the details and nuances with regard to all the parts of speech that will catapult you from the level you are to an advanced level.
- By the end of the course, given the knowledge you already have and what you'll learn in this course, you'll never need another Spanish course.
How it compares
Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 41% of them
- Reviews1,463#148 of 536 by number of reviews
- Length3.1 hoursshorter than 68% of them
- Last updatedMay 2023earlier than 58% of them
Course Description
In my beginner to intermediate course, you build a solid foundation and become conversational in Spanish. This course will take your Spanish from an intermediate level to an advanced level.
If you have never taken a Spanish course and have limited knowledge of Spanish this course is not for you, you'll want to take my beginner course first. If you took my beginner to intermediate course this is the course you're going to want to graduate to. If you didn't take my beginner course but you are conversational, know how to conjugate the basic forms of verbs (present, past, and future), know the pronouns (yo, tú, ud., él, ella, etc,) and have a basic foundation of Spanish and are wanting to take your Spanish to the next level this is your course.
This Course Will Take You to an Advanced Level of Spanish in the Following Ways:
- Your understanding of Spanish will be greater as you learn more advanced rules for the parts of speech for the Spanish you already know and Spanish you've yet been taught. Native speakers will be impressed!
- You'll learn the special uses of common words you've already learned in your Spanish journey. There will be no more confusion about the different meanings of a single word.
- In my beginner course, you learned the cognates (words that are practically identical in spelling and meaning in Spanish and English). In this course, you'll learn the false cognates (words that are almost identical in Spanish and English but don't carry the same meaning whatsoever.)
- There are quizzes and vocabulary lessons spread throughout the course. Therefore, you'll continue to learn the most common vocabulary and verbs spoken in everyday Spanish and be tested to see if you're grasping all the material.
- You'll learn what stem-changing verbs/boot verbs are and how they change. You'll also learn the command form of verbs (which doesn't exist in English).
- The second most important overall thing you'll learn is the Spanish subjunctive. The subjunctive is probably the hardest thing for us English speakers to wrap our heads around, in this course I'll definitely simplify that for you.
- And the most important thing about the course... if you took my beginner course you know how my approach to learning Spanish really does make it simple and soooo the most important thing about this course is that even these more complex concepts of the Spanish language are still taught in a simple step by step fashion that everybody can grasp!
By The End of The Course...
If you've taken my beginner course you already know how important the pronunciation is, it's half the battle of being fluent. If you have the pronunciation down really it's a small difference between being fluent and speaking like a native. In this course, you'll learn that "the difference" is mainly understanding and applying the small nuances for the parts of speech and these small nuances all together make a big difference. For example, when you learn and understand how to use the subjunctive mood for the verbs, it blows the native speakers' minds. This and other nuances of the parts of speech is what sets you apart from being conversational/ fluent and speaking like a native.
After finishing this course you will know everything you'll need to know to master Spanish, it will just be a matter of being consistent at practicing and applying what you already know and what you'll learn in this course. I look forward to seeing you on the inside!
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
1,463 Reviews
Mark Barnes
Before I was 20 years old I didn't know any Spanish, I bombed 1 year of French I took in high school and thought I’d never be able to learn a second language. When I was 20 I took a 2-month crash course in Spanish and went to Mexico for two years where I continued to self-teach and mastered the Spanish language. I’ve been speaking Spanish since 2002. I’m a member of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. While working in Miami, I met a guy from Venezuela who had authored a book in Spanish. He wasn't very proficient in English and after about a week of getting to know him, he asked me if I could translate his book to English. I did and it was fun and all but translating a book isn't as exciting as teaching Spanish. I was an interpreter for a couple of landscape companies in Las Vegas and ran a business of my own in Spanish being that my employees were Spanish speakers. Over the years I've had a lot of people ask me if I can teach them to speak Spanish like I speak it. From these requests came Spanish Made Simple. I've taken the concepts of how I learned and mastered Spanish and have simplified them so that those who take my courses will become conversational and fluent in Spanish in a simple step-by-step fashion.
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Reviews
By Peter Benning on 5/2/2023
Best spanish course on this level. Mark has the ability to present complex grammar rules in a simple way. Excellent pronunciation and pace. Good examples throughout the course. Would love to have a course from Mark on a more advanced level, like discussing various topics (economy, medicine, technology etc).
By Eduviges Caridad on 2/1/2021
I enjoyed taking the class, however I think a few things need to be reviewed by the instructor. At the beginning of the class, there was a document of false cognates that were 7 pages long. It was really helpful to learn new vocab! However, when looking up these words on other resources, some of them were actually cognates. Also, it is especially helpful when listing those vocab words is that a lot of the time there are multiple meanings for a Spanish word or multiple Spanish words that fit an English word. I think it's important to give that information to the students, especially in an advanced course. I also noticed some videos had spelling mistakes on English words. Other than that, I learned a lot!
By Bruno Barcellos on 11/15/2020
Ojal fuera todo en espaol!
By Dorreen Smith on 10/28/2020
I took this course with some Spanish skills - after alerting me to how basic my Spanish was, the course provided a great review of what I knew and drew my attention to numerous aspects that had been completely missed, over-looked or simply not instituted in the original "learn to survive" method that I'd used. The section that intrigued me most provided an awareness and understanding in conveying the context and not simply making a raw statement. I will review this section multiple times before the Subjunctive becomes second nature and thank the course for sparking a desire for continued improvement.
By Elaine Cristina Sarabando on 10/26/2020
Yo pienso que el curso hace una perfecta compacin entre los idiomas.
By Nancy Rosas on 10/23/2020
Love your deep voice and well articulated instructions.
By Janani Selvam on 10/21/2020
Absolutely love this course! He breaks it down so concisely and makes it very clear and easy to understand. Thank you so much!
By Jan-Hendrik Bahr on 10/20/2020
good examples and good structure of the course. Helpful for speaking and understanding spanish in real use cases
By Patricia Lipscomb on 10/19/2020
Ask me later
By Denise Duarte on 10/13/2020
Great
By Rufei Lu on 10/6/2020
The course is really well organized and clearly explained all the Spanish grammar rules. I am an advanced Spanish learner and found it easy to understand, probably this is an intermedia level course instead of advanced one. But really I'm enjoyed it and it's always good to review all the grammas and rules.
By Diego Rubalcava on 9/26/2020
So far the course looks like it is limited in what is being taught and only introduces the topics. It seems like the teacher expects you to take the topics and go and learn them on your own. I would've preferred a little more practice or extra examples.
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