Spanish beginner's level 1st part (0-A1) -en-cours-2025-lespa1101

Sep 28, 2026

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Spanish beginner’s level 1 learning unit (0-A1) provides structured training for absolute beginners, focusing on foundational grammar and core vocabulary aligned with the Council of Europe A1 framework. The module covers self-introduction, preferences, family, daily needs, everyday life, the environment, weather, the city, shopping, time expressions, and practical polite phrases for concrete situations such as greetings and restaurant visits. Learners develop communicative skills for asking/answering simple questions, understanding short texts, filling out basic forms, and writing short posts about themselves and imaginary characters.

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Université catholique de Louvain-Spanish beginner's level 1st part (0-A1) -en-cours-2025-lespa1101 lespa1101 2025 Spanish beginner's level 1st part (0-A1) | 5.00 credits | 45.0 h | Q1 or Q2 | | --- | --- | --- | | Teacher(s) | Garcia Migura Begona ;Perez Fernandez Ana ;Tirado Fernandez Alicia Maria (coordinator) ; | | | --- | --- | --- | | Language : | Spanish | | | Place of the course | Louvain-la-Neuve | | | Prerequisites | As far as the Spanish language is concerned, no basic requirements have to be met.
On the other hand, administratively, students need to add the credits to their faculty programme. Non-programme students are not accepted, except outgoing Erasmus students who have been allowed to follow the course by their faculty.
Maximum 20 students per group. | | | Main themes | This course is aimed at beginners, this learning module aims at covering the basic grammatical structures and vocabulary corresponding to starting to learn the language from scratch and a Council of Europe Framework of Reference level A1 .
The various themes addressed are: myself and the others (introducing oneself, preferences, family, basic descriptions); daily needs (personal belongings, the classroom, feelings); everyday life (habits, food, clothes, hobbies and sports); life in general (the environment, the weather, the city, shopping, asking for directions); telling the time (the calendar, times, expressions of frequency, timetables); expressions relating to concrete situations (greetings, forms of politeness, useful business-like expressions, such as purchasing things and going to the restaurant) . | | | Learning outcomes | At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | | | | 1
2 | • ask and provide information about oneself and others, daily needs, everyday life, one's living environment and the weather, using basic expressions.
• describe themselves and their living environment, using basic words and expressions in isolation.
• express themselves about concrete situations using basic control of simple syntactic structures and grammatical forms belonging to a standard memorized repertoire as well as basic forms of politeness.
• answer and ask simple questions, react to simple statements and make statements about basic needs or familiar topics.
• understand instructions that are given to them in a clear way as well as follow short and simple instructions.
• spell out personal information and recognize the most frequent nouns, familiar concepts and elementary expressions used in ordinary situations of everyday life; pronounce a very limited repertoire of expressions and memorized words, such that a native speaker used to listening to non-native speakers can easily understand them.
• understand short and simple texts, sentence by sentence, indicating nouns, familiar words and basic expressions, re-reading when necessary, as well as get the hang of the contents of a simple informative text, especially if it is accompanied by some visual aid.
• fill out simple forms (a hotel booking or a brochure) by oneself; provide basic information about onself, numbers, dates, hours, placenames, quantities, prices, etc.
• write short and simple texts about oneself and imaginary characters, using familiar words and regularly used expressions, as well as postcards using elementary compounds and connectors, such as "and"or "then". | UCLouvain-en-cours-2025-lespa1101-page 1/3 Université catholique de Louvain-Spanish beginner's level 1st part (0-A1) -en-cours-2025-lespa1101 | Evaluation methods | December and June sessions:
Final exam 50% .
Oral exam 30% .
Continuous assessment 20% .
Important: a minimum mark of 10/20 in each of the two examinations is required to add the Continuous assessment results to the final mark.
September session:
Final exam 60% .
Oral exam 40% .
Important: a minimum mark of 10/20 in each of the two examinations is required to pass the cour

FAQs

What does the course cover at A1 level (0-A1)?

It covers basic grammatical structures and vocabulary for starting from scratch, including self-introduction, daily needs, everyday life topics, the environment and weather, time expressions, and practical polite phrases for concrete situations.

What are the main learning outcomes for students?

Students can ask and provide basic information, describe themselves and their environment using simple words, understand clear short instructions, recognize frequent nouns and expressions, complete simple forms, and write short texts about themselves and imaginary characters.

How is the course evaluated and what are the AI rules?

Evaluation includes final exam, oral exam, and continuous assessment depending on the session, with a minimum mark requirement of 10/20 in each of the two examinations for continuous assessment to be added (and for passing in the September session). Generative AI may not be used and will be considered cheating.

Sep 28, 2026

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