Spanish Across the Americas

Learn Spanish as it is spoken across the Americas.

Spanish is spoken by 575 million people around the world, as a mother tongue or foreign language. More than 80% of all Spanish speakers live across the Americas.

This online Spanish course will teach non-native speakers how to deal with simple information and communicate in everyday situations.

Videos, articles and quizzes will help you learn not only about the Spanish language, but also about the culture of four fascinating destinations across the Americas.

You will also have the opportunity to comment and interact with other learners from all over the world.

What topics will you cover?

Greetings, simple introductions, ways to ask and give personal information.

Regular and irregular Spanish verbs in present tense.

Ways to talk about location, time, dates and prices and to describe people.

Possessives, demonstratives and quantifiers.

Ways to talk about one’s routine, likes and feelings.

Cultural topics on Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Argentina

Learning on this course

You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What you'll learn

• What will you achieve?
• By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
• Describe in Spanish, in simple terms, their present, their environment and issues related to their immediate needs.
• Perform simple, habitual exchanges in Spanish.
• Interpret frequently used phrases and expressions in Spanish related to familiar contexts.
• Apply a range of basic language structures available to deal with familiar and predictable situations.
• Apply a series of simple grammatical constructions.