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First Conversation · Beginner Spanish
Your first real conversation in Spanish.
Sixteen live online beginner classes for adults starting from zero, or who started Spanish once and never got to the part where you actually talk.
Starts November 3. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ten seats. Live online.
Enrollment for the fall group has closed. Ask about upcoming start dates.
Claim your seatYou have tried this before.
An app with a streak you abandoned. A few years of school Spanish. A phrasebook from a trip.
None of it got you to the moment that matters: someone speaks Spanish to you, and you answer. First Conversation is built for that moment.
Sixteen live online classes.
How the sixteen classes are built
Week one. What to say when you are lost.
Before anything else, you learn the phrases that keep you in a conversation. Most programs never teach these, and not having them is why beginners switch back to English.
Every class. Hear it, say it, remember it.
Your instructor models everything first. You repeat it as a group, then on your own, then with a partner in a short dialogue. And every class you say it out loud from memory, because recall is what makes it stay.
Session five, November 17. Your first real one.
Sixty seconds, unscripted, no English. Two weeks in.
The final week. Hear the difference.
You record the same short conversation in week one and in the final week. Then you listen to both.
The sixteen classes
Every Tuesday and Thursday from November 3 to January 5, with nights off for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
November 17 is your first unscripted exchange. No class Thursday, November 26, Thursday, December 24, or Thursday, December 31.
What you get
- Sixteen live online classes. Small group, everything modeled before you are asked to say it.
- Two recordings of the same conversation. One in week one, one in the final week, so your progress is something you can hear.
- Weekly practice. Short, out loud, built from that week's classes.
- A path into Speaking Up. When you finish, the next level is already there.
Your first conversation, or the next session is free.
Attend 13 of the 16 classes and do the weekly practice. If you cannot hold a two-minute conversation in Spanish by the final class, you take the next session at no cost.
Tuition
Sixteen live online classes and twenty hours with your instructor, which comes to about $22 an hour. Private lessons at ALC run $68 to $75 an hour.
Hold your seat with $100 now. It comes off your tuition, and the remaining $350 is due before the first class on November 3.
Hold my seat for $100Refundable for 7 days after your first class. How enrollment works
Ten seats
Enrollment closes Wednesday, October 28. Class begins Tuesday, November 3.
Can't make these dates?
Enrollment for this group has closed.
If Tuesday and Thursday evenings or this fall do not work, tell us where to reach you. The list hears about the next beginner group first.
No payment now. We will only email you about First Conversation.
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Questions
How much do I have to speak?
Less than in our intermediate classes. Beginners learn by hearing, repeating, and remembering. You will speak every class, but always after your teacher has shown you how.
What if I miss a class?
Contact us and we will help you catch up. The guarantee allows for three absences.
What happens over the holidays?
No class Thursday, November 26, Thursday, December 24, or Thursday, December 31. The course ends Tuesday, January 5.
Do I need to buy anything?
One textbook, Complete Spanish Step-by-Step by Barbara Bregstein. We cover chapters 1 to 9. Everything else is provided.
What comes next?
Speaking Up, our low intermediate conversation class.