- the Spanish alphabet, the vowels, pronunciation rules, stress and accents, diphthongs, and tongue-twisters.
- words of greetings and introductions, leave-taking, days of the week, months of the year, counting 1 -- 199, and telling time
-verbs in the present tense, personal pronouns, verb conjugations, and negating verbs.
- stem changing verbs, To be or to be? Ser vs. Estar, Haber -- another verb meaning to be, and reflexive Verbs.
- words for parts of the body, family & extended family, at home, common phrases, in a restaurant, counting 200 -- 1999, dialogue in a restaurant, and forming plurals.
- nouns and adjectives, list of adjectives to describe people, list of adjectives to describe places and things, colors, placement of adjectives, and possessive adjectives.
- the verb gustar (to like) and other similar verbs, such as Parecer, a verbs that works like gustar.
- prepositions por vs. para, preposition used to describe location, and common prepositions in use.
- the preterite tense: regular verbs, vocabulary the triggers the preterite tense, irregular verbs in the preterite, the imperfect tense, and irregular forms of the imperfect.
- Yes/no questions and question words.
- direct objects, indirect objects, and reflexive pronouns.
- word endings to refer to the near future, future tense, and vocabulary that triggers future tense.
- the concepts of Cognates, and False Friends.