You'll build upon these skills through practice with key verbs and adjectives, so that you can express your needs and desires in diverse situations with considerable detail. After only a few sessions, you'll already be having meaningful interactions in a restaurant, and soon you'll be shopping, making plans with friends, getting around a city, going out for entertainment, and making travel arrangements with confidence. Right from the start, you'll begin working with powerful structures and key vocabulary so that you can build useful Spanish sentences. This is a serious introduction to the language. At the same time, you'll develop a strong foundation in how the language actually works, allowing you to go beyond simple stock phrases to actually building sentences yourself. Spanish 1 has been designed to prepare you for the most important and common situations you'll face in the Spanish-speaking world.