SpanishPod101 Beginner S2 Curriculum

In this 25-lesson season, Carlos and Natalia will expand upon grammar points learned in Beginner Season 2. This series will cover adverb formation, expressing displeasure and embarrassment, the subjunctive, and much more. Again, you’ll hear Spanish spoken in a variety of situations. That means you will pick up both formal and informal Spanish.

	Title	Topic	Function	Grammar Point	Useful Vocabulary and Phrases	Vocabulary List	Cultural Insight
#1	Where ya’ headed?	Taxis	Using The Preterit Perfect	The Preterit Perfect	A ver	maestro (a), nunca, subir, la cuadra, precio, combustible	Taxis
#2	What a shame!	Haggling	Comparing items	Comparisons of equality	¡Que lástima!	detalle, hecho a mano, fábrica, fino (a), descuento, lástima	Bargaining
#3	But if I always buy from you!?	Haggling	Using pronouns to avoid redundancy	How to replace indirect objects with indirect object pronouns	Oiga	kilogramo (kilo), tanto, casero(a), parecer, tomate, cobrar	Locally owned shops
#4	But, Sir, I have all of my papers in order	Visas	Using pronouns to avoid redundancy	How to replace direct objects with direct object pronouns	Depende de…	realizar, solicitar, afiliación, ciudadano (a), frontera, depender	Visas in Costa Rica
#5	But I need to go to Panama. What do I do?	Buying a ticket	Expressing distance or time from one place or moment to another	Two sets of prepositions when expressing distance or time from one place or moment to another: “de and a”, and “desde and hasta”	Buenas tardes	hasta, el boleto, preocuparse, cruzar, nomás, facilísimo(a)	About Panama
#6	Understand me: I want to promote your culture	Visas	Using the verbs “decir” (to say) and “sugerir” (to suggest)	Conjugations in the Preterit Indicative Tense for the verbs “decir” (to say) and “sugerir” (to suggest)	Aquí tiene	realizar, suerte, promover, aduanas, investigación, tramitar	Bureaucracy
#7	I think there was a misunderstanding	Misunderstandings	Expressing a past action that happens before another action in the past	The Pluperfect Preterite	Oye	quedar, recoger, haber, entendido, bacán, confusión	Making mistakes when learning a language
#8	Then, why didn’t you call me?	Misunderstandings	Forming adverbs	The formation of adverbs	O sea	entender, mensaje, concreto, malentendido, precisamente, dejarse entender	Making mistakes when learning a language
#9	You’d better! I’m waiting for you…	Misunderstandings	Talking about actions in the past	The Preterite Perfect Tense	Claro que…	verdad, valer, insistir, medianoche, importar, manera	Misunderstandings when learning a language
#10	I e-like verry much the Junited Estates…	Meeting people	Using relative and interrogative pronouns	Relative and interrogative pronouns	¡Claro! Encantado	alegrarse, mejor, preferir, quien, practicar, encantado	The labels Hispanic and Latino
#11	I’ll give you a special discount	Taxis	Talking about actions and events in the future	Indicative Mood of the Future Tense	¡Suerte! ¡Que le vaya bien!	igual, servicio, movilidad, descuento, especial, plaza	Taxi services
#12	The ride of your life!	Taxis	Using adverbial conjunctions	Adverbial Conjunctions (before, unless, in case, etc.)		barrio, atajo, ruta, vista, antes de que, auto	Taxi services
#13	It looks like you’ve been robbed	Getting robbed	Talking about conditional situations	The Conditional Tense	Por supuesto	desear, hueco, ahora, bolsillo, trasero, mueble	Pickpocketing
#14	You’re going to get me pregnant!	Making mistakes	Talking about actions in the future	Expressing future actions using ir a + infinitive	¡Qué verguenza!	viejo(a), embarazar, avergonzar, querer decir, suceder, anglohablante	Making mistakes when learning a language
#15	Steering your food after lunch	Making mistakes	Using words like “this” and “these”	Demonstrative adjectives (this, these)	No hay de qué	infusión, menta, dirigir, digerir, darse cuenta, parecido (a)	Making mistakes when learning a language
#16	Let’s Breed!	Making mistakes	Using the subjunctive tense	Irregular verbs in the Present Subjunctive		cruzar, tráfico, tener que, parecer, reproducir, como	Making mistakes when learning a language
#17	I’m totally aroused to meet her	Making mistakes	Saying that you are about to do something, or that something is about to happen	The periphrastic construction “estar por [verb]”		estar por, emocionado, excitado (a), expectativa, cochino (a), mente	Making mistakes when learning a language
#18	If I were to win the lottery…	Lottery	Talking about past actions and hypothetical future actions	The Imperfect Subjunctive used in relation to both past actions and hypothetical future actions	¡Ay, dios!	sorteo, premio, millonario(a), deuda, dios(a), año	Lottery in Costa Rica
#19	Good God in Heaven and all the angels!!!	Lottery	Talking about actions in the past	The Preterite Tense	Damas y Caballeros	ganador (a), felicidad, santo(a), repetir, ángel, ganar	Gambling in Costa Rica
#20	My money on my mind…	Lottery	Using prepositions in Spanish	Common prepositions in Spanish	Pues	materialista, gente, ironía, sola(a), rico, triste	Social classes in Latin America
#21	I saw the light!	Lottery	Using prepositions in Spanish	Common prepositions in Spanish pt. II	Entonces	iglesia, darse cuenta, sentirse, entero(a), ocupar, luz	Muggings and petty crime in Costa Rica
#22	Coffee doesn’t get better!	Coffee	Using the subjunctive tense	The subjunctive tense	¡Anda!	cargado (a), levanta muertos, totalmente, taza, suerte, gratis	Costa Rican coffee
#23	She likes her tamales hot!	Food	Using Indirect Object Pronouns	Indirect Object Pronouns	Cierto	tamal, a tiempo, recordar, el chile, picante, cierto (a)	Tamales
#24	It makes you feel like eating there…	Eating out	Talking about actions in the past	Irregular verbs in the preterit tense		deber, hoy, sábado, abrir, limpio (a), almorzar	Costa Rican cuisine
#25	Do Not Bother Me While I Am Trying to Relax in the Caribbean!	Food	Giving commands	The Imperative Mood in Spanish	¿Cómo?	poco a poco, cada, probar, hasta, tipo(a), tener	Latin American Fruits and Vegetables