En el Barrio - Around the Neighborhood

What you'll learn

• The verb estar for location — Madrid está en España
• Hay for what exists in a place, and how it differs from está
• Places around town — la farmacia, la plaza, el metro, el supermercado
• Prepositions of place: al lado de, enfrente de, cerca de, detrás de
• Asking for directions and understanding the answer — sigue todo recto, gira a la derecha

Why it matters

The first time you walk out of a metro station in Madrid with no idea where you are, this is the module that saves you. Talking about places — where they are, what's nearby, how to get there — is the most useful survival Spanish you can learn after introductions.

Before you start

Module 3 — family vocabulary, possessives, numbers to a hundred, and tener.