Conversational Spanish Classes/Lessons, SF, Bay Area, California
Effective and affordable Conversational Spanish Classes/Lessons at:
Maria Oliveira Language Learning Center in Richmond, CA (East Bay)
Read what students say about our affordable language classes!
"I loved this class. The materials were excellent and very relevant to what we were studying. The pace of the class was perfect. I feel that I have a good beginning and I am anxious to continue my studies of Spanish. The instructor made the class so enjoyable!"Patricia - Richmond, California
Classes
- Spanish 1A - Beginning Spanish
- Spanish 1A - Beginning Spanish with Lab
- Spanish 1B - Beginning Spanish
- Spanish 1B - Beginning Spanish with Lab
- Spanish 2A - Beginning Spanish
- Spanish 2B - Beginning Spanish
- Conversational Spanish - Beginning
- Conversational Spanish – Intermediate
- Spanish 3A: Fine-Tune Your Spanish Conversational Skills
- Spanish 4A: Fine-Tune Your Spanish Reading Skills
- Conversational Spanish - Ongoing Group
- Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
- Spanish for Social Service Professionals
- Conversational Spanish Workshops
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Serving: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, Sacramento County, San Francisco County, and Solano County
Spanish 1A - Beginning Spanish
Course Description: Provides essential words and concepts for forming sentences. Builds a firm foundation of useful vocabulary, including greetings, numbers, days of the week, expressing time, colors, foods, and more. Beginning grammatical constructions include definite and indefinite articles, using plurals and gender. Oral practice ensures correct pronunciation.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2020 Available online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Course #: 12500
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials 
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, June, 2, 9, 2020
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Course #: 12515
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Spanish 1A - Beginning Spanish with Lab
Course Description:Provides essential words and concepts for forming sentences. Builds a firm foundation of useful vocabulary, including greetings, numbers, days of the week, expressing time, colors, foods, and more. Beginning grammatical constructions include definite and indefinite articles, using plurals and gender. Oral practice ensures correct pronunciation.
You'll be assigned a user name and password to access your online language lessons the first day of class. This user name and password will be valid for 3 months.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2020 Available Online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Course #: 12600
Tuition: $168.00 plus materials
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, june 2, 9, 2020
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Course #: 12615
Tuition: $168.00 plus materials
Spanish 1B - Beginning Spanish
Course Description: Increases vocabulary of everyday subjects such as family, furniture and clothing. Introduces noun and pronoun usages, adjectives, and the verbs ser and tener. Learn idiomatic expressions, direct objects, and the AR, ER, and IR verb conjugations. Continue forming sentences and oral practice.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2020 Available Online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Course #: 12501
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Dates: Spring2 - Wednesdays:May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2020
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Wednesdays: August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Wednesdays: September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 2020
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Course #: 12512
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Spanish 1B - Beginning Spanish with Lab
Course Description: Increases vocabulary of everyday subjects such as family, furniture and clothing. Introduces noun and pronoun usages, adjectives, and the verbs ser and tener. Learn idiomatic expressions, direct objects, and the AR, ER, and IR verb conjugations. Continue forming sentences and oral practice.
You'll be assigned a user name and password to access your online language lessons the first day of class. This user name and password will be valid for 3 months
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Tuesdays: May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9, 2020 Available Online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Tuesdays: August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Tuesdays: September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Course #: 12501
Tuition: $168.00 plus materials
Dates: Spring2 - Wednesdays: May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2020
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Wednesdays: August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020
Dates: Fall2 - Wednesdays: September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 2020
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Course #: 12512
Tuition: $168.00 plus materials
Spanish 2A - Beginning Spanish
Course Description: Vocabulary includes physical elements of the sky, the world, weather, cities, location. Begin writing paragraphs and conjugating AR, ER, IR verbs in the present and the preterit. The uses of Ser and Estar are studied. Also, the present progressive, impersonal verbs, and uses of Hacer are examined.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Wednesdays: May 6, 13, 20, 27, June 3, 10, 2020
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Wednesdays: August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Course #: 12502
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Spanish 2B - Beginning Spanish
Course Description: Continue forming sentences, paragraphs, questions. The verb ir + a, querer, tener and their idioms are studied. Negative and interrogative words and sentences included. Discussion of cultural readings. Learn the preterit tense for AR, ER, IR verbs. Also, preterit tense for estar, querer, tener.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 -Mondays: May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2020 Available Via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall2 - Wednesdays: September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 2020
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Course #: 12503
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Spanish 3A: Fine-Tune Your Spanish Conversational Skills
Course Description: Explore a variety of everyday situations using your Spanish language skills to communicate useful information. Students will find interactions helpful for travel or business. This class advances toward fluency through oral practice and is best suited for students who have completed in-depth vocabulary studies.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Mondays: May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2020 Available Online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Wednesdays: August 12, 19, 26, September 2, 9, 16, 2020
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Course #: 12506
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Spanish 4A: Fine-Tune Your Spanish Reading Skills
Course Description: Read stories, novels, news articles, and more, to increase your comprehension skills. Deepen your understanding of colloquialisms, idioms, and other common usages. Class discussions will clarify meaning, examine grammar constructions, and increase vocabulary. Readings are intended for intermediate to advanced students.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Spring2 - Not available for Spring 2
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall2 - Wednesdays: September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 28, November 4, 2020
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Course #: 12526
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Conversational Spanish - Beginning
Course Description: The perfect introduction to essential phrases, vocabulary and basic sentence structures for Spanish conversation. Learn greetings, ask for directions, order dinner, and much more. Gain confidence when practicing correct pronunciation of newly developed language skills.
Price includes Online Lab. Online Course id and password valid for 3 months.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates:Spring2 - Mondays: May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 2020 Available Online via Zoom
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Thursdays: October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 2020
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Course #: 125040
Tuition: $148.00 Includes Online Lab. plus materials.
Conversational Spanish - Intermediate
Course Description: Continue to develop basic language skills with new vocabulary, phrases, and sentences. Increase confidence using correct pronunciation. Practice with brief oral presentations; ask questions, offer comments, improve comprehension. Become conversant in Spanish quickly, and enjoy the process!
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Summer Click for available dates
Dates: Fall1 - Thursdays: August 13, 20, 27, September 3, 10, 17, 2020
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Course #: 125230
Tuition: $135.00 plus materials
Ongoing Language Learning Group
Course Description: This class meets weekly and progress at their own rate. Students may join an Ongoing Group at any time if their language experience is at the current level of the group in session. Determination of the student's level is made by the instructor. For placement call us at 1-510-223-3320.
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Tuesdays, Open enrollment
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Course #: 12518
Tuition: Non-members fee $82.00 payable the first of each month
Tuition: Members fee $60.00 payable the first of each month
Tuition: To become a member
You may register online if you've already called for your assessment.
Spanish for Educational Settings - Workshop Series
Course Description: For teachers, administrators, and school staff who wish to communicate with Spanish-speaking students and adults. Learn simple Spanish phrases to obtain essential information, give directions, and identify problems. Use polite terms to increase comfort levels and encourage interactions. Explain the lunch program, school bus details, attendance and behavior issues, and more. Must have 3 students enrolled to have the class. Register now!
Instructor: Maria Oliveira
Dates: Fridays: new dates available soon
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Course #: 12522
Tuition: $135.00 
Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
Course Description: A specialized and intensive Spanish language course designed to enhance effective communication between patients and their healthcare providers. Emphasis is on basic, practical language needed to communicate with Spanish speaking patients and their families at the hospital or doctor's office, on the telephone, or at the patient's home.
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Maria Oliveira Language Learning Center has been approved as a Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing. CEP 15113.
Course Description: For Social Services professionals & employees who interact with Spanish-speaking clients, this class enables communication, saves time in a crisis, and improves efficiency. Learn the basic questions and understand the answers that are vital in emergencies, screenings, and routine interviews. Determine living expenses, financial problems, qualifying factors, family relationships. Obtain identification, income information, and legal status.
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There are 3 ways to register for these Conversational Spanish adult education classes.
Fees are due at the time of registration.
- Register Online
- To pay by check, please fill out this registration
form and mail your check or money order to:
Maria Oliveira Language Learning School, 3150 Hilltop Mall Rd., Suite 13, Richmond, CA 94806 (East Bay)
- Call us to register or if you have any questions:
- TOLL FREE: 877-251-8353 / LOCAL: (510) 223-3320 or (707) 746-5979
Maria Oliveira Language Learning Center is located in Richmond, CA
Serving Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County,
Sacramento County,
San Francisco County, and Solano County
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