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Getting started with Spanish 2

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This free course is your next step to continue your journey learning Spanish, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. You should have some knowledge of Spanish, either because you have studied Getting started with Spanish 1⁶⁹ or because you have learned Spanish elsewhere.

In this free course you will work with audio and interactive activities to practise the skills you need to talk about everyday activities you do, including how to tell the time. You will also learn the present tense form of some common verbs and how to pronounce the ‘r’ sound.

This OpenLearn course is an extract from the beginning of the Open Centre for Languages and Cultures short course LGXS002: Beginners Spanish 2: ¡En marcha!⁷⁰ After completing this free course, you may wish to register for the full course to continue your learning.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

ask the time, and tell the time to others
develop pronunciation, fluency and intonation through practice
conjugate verbs in the present tense
report on daily routines and favoured activities
appreciate the different 'r' sounds in the Spanish language.

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First Published: 22/04/2021

Updated: 22/04/2021

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- Introduction
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  Introduction
  ¡En marcha! Let's get up and running!This is the second beginners Spanish course, Getting started with Spanish 2. You might have already gone through the previous course in this program or you might be joining us now for the first time. Regardless, we hope you enjoy the course and find it useful.This two-week course is the next step in your learning journey. Each week comprises 3–4 hours of interactive activities, explanations, exercises and tips about language-learning. It’s a good idea to ...
- Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
- Acknowledgements
- Week1Week 1: How to tell the time
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  Introduction
  ¡Bienvenido/a a semana 1! Welcome to Week 1!In this first week, you will learn how to tell the time in Spanish, including asking other people and answering others' questions about the time. You will practise this through a variety of speaking and listening activities.Enjoy the week!This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course LGXS002 Beginners Spanish 2: ¡En marcha! [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
- 1 What time is it?
- 2 Asking and telling the time
- 3 Practising times
- 4 Listening practice
- 5 Speaking practice
- 6 What time is it?
- 7 a.m. and p.m.
- 8 Times at different stages of the day
- 9 This week's quiz
- 10 Summary of Week 1
- Acknowledgements
- Week 1 practice quiz
- Week2Week 2: Everyday activities
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  ¡Bienvenido/a a semana 2! Welcome to Week 2!You will see that this week introduces quite a bit of new vocabulary and grammar, especially the conjugation of new verbs in the present tense. It is really important that you learn these, as there is nothing more frustrating when learning a new language than starting to say a sentence and getting stuck because you can’t remember the word or the verb form you need!Have you got a good dictionary? Do you use a dictionary online? You might need to ...
- 1 Everyday activities
- 2 Saying what you do
- 3 Daily routines
- 4 The present tense of regular verbs
- 5 Reading comprehension
- 6 Finding verbs in a dictionary
- 7 Using the present tense
- 8 Speaking practice
- 9 The correct present tense form
- 10 Sounds for the letter ‘r’
- 11 Listen and repeat ‘r’ and ‘rr’
- 11 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary of Week 2
- Acknowledgements
- Week 2 practice quiz

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Felix Dahlberg 20 August 2026 2:58PM

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The lack of translations really makes this a lot harder than it needs to be. For example, the week 2 part 5 was incredibly hard to understand when you only get a few of the words translated.
Gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because week 1 was pretty useful, but week 2 needs a lot of rework.
Add translations to the words so you are not only learning conjugations without knowing what you are conjugating. Add translations so you know how you should conjugate instead of needing to look it up. It would also be nice to get examples of irregular verb conjugations, like for the verb 'ser'

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DANIELE Sai 16 May 2026 12:47AM

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Very interesting, useful and compelling! Congratulations!

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