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Three ways in. By level if you know roughly where you are; by topic if you are after one specific thing; or the course in order if you are starting from nothing.
By level
- A1
You can introduce yourself, ask for things, and handle a shop or a taxi if people speak slowly. Everything here assumes you are starting from nothing.
28 lessons
- A2
You can hold a short conversation about your own life, the past, and your plans — as long as it stays concrete. This is where the choices start to matter: which verb, which register.
29 lessons
- B1
You can follow a normal conversation between Peruvians, most of the time. What holds you back now is not vocabulary — it is the past tenses, the pronouns, and hearing what people actually mean.
24 lessons
- B2
You can argue a point, be tactful, and sound like an adult rather than a competent tourist. Subjunctive, conditionals and register do most of the work at this level.
14 lessons
- C1
You are fluent and the remaining work is precision: idiom, implication, and the things that mark you as either at home in Lima or not.
2 lessons
By topic
How the language works
- The present
What is happening now, what happens generally, and what Spanish uses the present for that English does not.
15 lessons
- The past
Two past tenses that both translate as one English one. This is the wall most learners hit at B1.
14 lessons
- Adjectives
Agreement, position, and the ones that change meaning when they move.
10 lessons
- Pronouns
Subject, object, and the ones Spanish leaves out entirely.
8 lessons
- Subjunctive
Not a tense and not optional. What it actually signals, and the triggers worth memorising.
8 lessons
- Ser and estar
Two verbs for “to be”, and the rule that actually survives contact with real sentences.
6 lessons
- Pronunciation
The sounds, and the habits from your own language that get in the way of them.
5 lessons
- Nouns and articles
Gender, plurals, and which little word goes in front.
5 lessons
- Conditionals
If this, then that — including the versions about things that did not happen.
5 lessons
- Joining ideas
The small words that are neither nouns nor verbs — and, but, then, anyway — and that carry most of the work in real speech.
5 lessons
- Prepositions
Por and para, where things are, and the small words that carry more meaning than they look like they should.
4 lessons
- Asking questions
The question words, the accents they carry, and how to ask without sounding blunt.
4 lessons
Where you will actually use it
- Getting around
Taxis, markets, directions — the Spanish you need in the first week, in the order you need it.
19 lessons
- Art and craft
Textiles, ceramics, silver and paint — what the things are called, and how to say what you think of them.
8 lessons
- Small talk
The two minutes at the start and the two at the end, which in Peru are not optional.
7 lessons
- Food and markets
Ordering, shopping by the kilo, and the menu words no course book prints.
5 lessons
- Money and bargaining
Soles, small change, paying by phone, and the script for agreeing a price without either side losing face.
4 lessons
- Buildings and architecture
Doorways, balconies, patios and the materials they are made of — the vocabulary for describing what is in front of you.
4 lessons
- Health and getting help
The pharmacy, the words for where it hurts, and how to ask for help clearly when you are rattled.
3 lessons
Peru, and where you are coming from
- Peruvian Spanish
Where Spanish as spoken in Peru differs from the Spanish in your course book — which is more often than the book admits.
49 lessons
- Register and politeness
Tú or usted, how much to soften, and when the same words land completely differently.
21 lessons
- Lima slang
The words nobody teaches you and everybody uses.
5 lessons