Let’s take a walk. Join me on a walk through the botanical gardens , practice your listening skills and chat to to the squirrels. How much can you follow? Remember you don’t need to be able to understand every single word or phrase to be able to communicate. But you do need to practice lots and often [More…]

Next Sunday we will be hearing each others’ presentations and discussing them. Here, I introduce the session in Spanish…

We all like to get something for free, and if you are looking for free Spanish learning resources on the internet, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Lots of it is very good and you can learn things and make some progress in learning a language. The chances are though, if you are reading this, you’ve not found this process entirely [More…]

A: No! My prices are excellent value all year round, and if I offered discounts, this is simply not fair to my regular and loyal students. You can sign up to SPANISH CLUB at any time, or register for YA HABLO ESPANOL knowing you are getting the best price and great value for money.

There’s something for everyone with prices from [More…]

Teachers I have known and admired are always welcoming,  accessible, gentle but firm, determined, understanding, easy-going, humorous, and someone who sees mistakes and “stuck moments” as opportunities to improve, move on and grow.

Thus I have created my own method with a strong communicative focus. From my point of view, the first aim of a language is to be spoken and [More…]

I have been learning languages since I was 10 years old. I have learned English, German and French. I have always loved it, really loved it, but I must admit that I have gone through really embarrassing and putting off situations like:

• being in a group where most people could speak better than me (or that was only my impression)

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It’s amazing the wealth of resources available online to help us to learn Spanish. And much of it is excellent!  You will be able to find whatever you need to help with grammar, vocabulary, idioms, false friends, the main mistakes in Spanish… to all level of Spanish learners!  Thanks to all the teachers who make all this available to us!

My [More…]

You’re stuck in a rut with your Spanish. You’ve learned lots, on your own, with an app, in a group class, in a 1-2-1 class, maybe even at school, but now your progression has faltered. The fact is you are lacking confidence, and although you know lots of Spanish in your head, getting the words out of your mouth, in [More…]

You probably have your own answer to this question. Maybe you have Spanish family members and want to be able to communicate with them. Or you go on holiday to Spanish-speaking countries, want to retire there, or own a property there. Maybe you’re multi-lingual already and want another challenge for the fun of it!

Whatever the reason, you can be sure [More…]

¡YA HABLO ESPAÑOL! and SPANISH CLUB are a perfect zero-waste present for Christmas and birthdays for the motivated Spanish learner! And it is a life changing experience, as speaking one of the most spoken languages in the world opens up many doors professionally, and personally, and culturally… All second language students around the world agree with this! Don´t [More…]