Schopenhauer Sprachschule – Deutschland
Spanish – Level C1
Course Information
Start dates
See the calendar board
Lesson time
19:00 - 21:30
Fri, Sun
Duration
10 weeks
(20 days)
Total
60 lessons à 45 min
2 lessons/day
Participants
max. 12
Price
2x480,00€
Location
Online live session
Level
C1.1 and C1.2
Course General Objective
- For the student to gain the ability to use basic greetings, introductions, simple questioning and answering, and expressions needed in daily life.
- To be able to form simple sentences using the present tense among the basic tenses.
- To acquire a basic vocabulary of approximately 300–400 words.
- Participate in virtual classes
- Build reading comprehension competence
- Strengthen speaking and interaction abilities
- Advance listening and understanding skills
- Practice writing clear and well-structured texts
What will you be able to do after completing the B2 Spanish course?
Course topics C1.1
Advanced Diagnostic & Course Expectations
- Skills: Full evaluation of grammar, lexicon, fluency, discourse organization
- Students will learn: To identify advanced-level weaknesses and understand C1 expectations for accuracy, fluency, and complexity.
Mastering Subjunctive Nuances
- Grammar: Less common triggers, emotional intensity, stylistic use
- Students will learn: To control subtle differences in tone and intention using the subjunctive.
Advanced Concessive Structures
- Grammar: Aunque, por más que, aun cuando, si bien
- Students will learn: To express contrast and concession with sophistication and natural flow.
High-Level Cohesion & Discourse Markers
- Vocabulary: Advanced connectors (no obstante, con todo, en resumidas cuentas, dicho esto)
- Students will learn: To produce long, coherent discourse similar to educated native speakers.
Emphatic Structures & Word Order
- Grammar: Fronting, cleft sentences (fue… cuando, lo que… es)
- Students will learn: To highlight information and structure sentences for rhetorical impact.
Advanced Lexicon: Emotions, Attitudes & Subtlety
- Vocabulary: Matized emotional terms, idioms, refined adjectives
- Students will learn: To describe complex psychological states and react appropriately in nuanced discussions
Professional Reports & Summaries
- Skills: Synthesizing information from multiple sources
- Students will learn: To write concise, structured summaries and formal reports with C1-level vocabulary.
Media Discourse & Critical Analysis
- Grammar: Reported speech with transformation, distancing language
- Students will learn: To analyze news articles, detect manipulation, and summarize arguments critically.
Advanced Persuasion & Argumentation
- Skills: Rhetorical devices, structured debate strategies
- Students will learn: To defend complex positions convincingly and respond spontaneously under pressure.
Mid-Course Deep Review
- Activities: Complex grammar consolidation, advanced listening, targeted pronunciation correction
- Students will learn: To eliminate recurring errors and stabilize advanced structures.
Hypothesis, Speculation & Probability
- Grammar: Perfect tenses with speculation, advanced future/conditional
- Students will learn: To hypothesize elegantly and discuss uncertain situations with native-like structures.
Advanced Reading: Academic Texts & Essays
- Skills: Understanding abstract concepts, reading for implications and assumptions
- Students will learn: To handle university-level texts in Spanish and extract sophisticated meaning.
Complex Conditionals & Unreal Situations
- Grammar: Layered conditionals, nested clauses, mixed tenses
- Students will learn: To express highly complex hypothetical scenarios and consequences.
Cultural & Sociopolitical Analysis
- Content: Identity, migration, global issues, social structures
- Students will learn: To discuss abstract societal topics with advanced vocabulary and structured reasoning.
Advanced Opinion/Argumentative Essay
- Thesis development, concession/counterarguments, academic style
- Students will learn: To write a long, coherent, persuasive essay following C1 standards.
Native-Speed Debate & Interviews
- Understanding idiomatic expressions, fast speech, overlapping dialogue
- Students will learn: To follow complex discussions and identify attitudes, implications, and subtleties.
Formal Presentations (5 Minutes)
- Skills: Advanced signposting, rhetorical pacing, audience engagement
- Students will learn: To deliver polished, clear, and well-structured presentations in Spanish.
Science, Technology & Global Change
- Vocabulary: Specialized terms, academic registers
- Students will learn: To participate in intellectual discussions with precise terminology.
Pragmatics & Natural Fluency
- Skills: Colloquial expressions, natural fillers, sophisticated discourse markers
- Students will learn: To sound fluent, refined, and natural in both formal and informal contexts.
Final Assessment & Advanced Feedback
- Assessment: C1.1 speaking evaluation, long-form writing, critical reflection
- Students will learn: To identify next steps for C1.2 and receive personalized linguistic development guidance.
Course topics C2.2
High-Level Diagnostic & C1.2 Expectations
- Skills: Evaluation of stylistic control, discourse organization, pragmatic appropriateness
- Students will learn: To understand C2-style expectations and identify very advanced improvement areas.
Stylistic Subjunctive & Literary Uses
- Grammar: Subjunctive for stylistic effect, literary triggers, archaic/rare forms
- Students will learn: To interpret and produce refined, expressive structures found in high-level writing.
Advanced Syntax & Complex Sentence Architecture
- Grammar: Embedded clauses, layered subordination, long-form complex sentences
- Students will learn: To construct highly sophisticated, elegant sentences similar to academic prose.
Registers & Stylistic Shifts
- Content: Switching between formal, academic, colloquial, and journalistic registers
- Students will learn: To adapt tone instantly and appropriately depending on context and audience.
First steps with the past tense: Pretérito perfecto
- Grammar: Emphatic structures, ellipsis, inference-based phrasing
- Students will learn: To communicate implicitly, manage subtext, and interpret indirect speech.
High-Level Lexicon: Abstract Concepts
- Vocabulary: Philosophy, psychology, society, ethics
- Students will learn: To discuss abstract, theoretical, and conceptual topics fluently.
Writing: Academic Research Summaries
- Skills: Paraphrasing at C1.1+/C1.2 level, synthesizing multi-source texts
- Students will learn: To condense long academic articles into precise, cohesive summaries.
Critical Media Analysis
- Content: Bias, persuasion techniques, ideological framing
- Students will learn: To analyze media critically and articulate complex evaluations of texts.
Sophisticated Debate & Dialectics
- Skills: Argument layering, rebuttals, controlled emotional tone
- Students will learn: To handle heated debates calmly, persuasively, and with high-level linguistic accuracy.
Mid-Course Review (Advanced Consolidation)
- Activities: Complex grammar clinic, advanced troubleshooting, high-level fluency tasks
- Students will learn: To stabilize C1.2 structures and eliminate the last fossilized errors.
Hypothesis, Abstraction & Speculative Reasoning
- Grammar: Compound forms for speculation, discourse-level reasoning
- Students will learn: To create long, abstract hypotheses with precision and subtlety.
Advanced Reading: Literary Prose & Essays
- Content: Narrative style, symbolism, tone, narrative voice
- Students will learn: To analyze high-level literature and understand nuanced stylistic choices.
Complex Conditionals in Academic & Philosophical Contexts
- Grammar: Layered and nested conditionals, counterfactual reasoning
- Students will learn: To express complex theoretical arguments using precise conditional structures.
Cultural Competence: Society, Identity & Ideology
- Content: Cultural discourses, national identity, social change
- Students will learn: To participate in highly abstract sociocultural discussions with appropriate terminology.
High-Level Argumentative Essay
- Skills: Thesis development, logical flow, advanced connectors, refined tone
- Students will learn: To produce polished long-form arguments showing maturity, accuracy, and stylistic elegance.
Unscripted Native-Speed Content
- Content: Radio interviews, political debates, academic lectures
- Students will learn: To understand complex, fast, overlapping speech with minimal repetition.
Formal & Academic Presentations (5 Minutes)
- Skills: Advanced structuring, rhetorical strategies, engaging delivery
- Students will learn: To give long, polished presentations with minimal notes and complete fluency.
Specialized Topics: Technology, Ethics & Global Issues
- Vocabulary: High-level technical and academic terminology
- Students will learn: To handle expert-level discussions with clarity and precision.
Pragmatics & Near-Native Fluency
- Skills: Idiomatic mastery, pragmatic subtleties, discourse markers
- Students will learn: To sound nearly native-like in spontaneity, appropriateness, and expression.
Advanced speaking exam, long writing task, stylistic analysis
- Assessment: Advanced speaking exam, long writing task, stylistic analysis
- Students will learn: To evaluate their readiness for C2 and receive personalized guidance for further development.
PS: The course content may vary depending on the instructors‘ preferences regarding the order of topics.
