SPANISH LANGUAGE

After you choose the course that you want to perform (standard, tailored, conversation or DELE preparation), you complete the subscription form provided on the website and I will contact you through email to schedule a day and time that suits your availability to do your free and without commitment trial lesson.

Before the lesson, you will receive a personal questionnaire and a level test so I can know a little more about you and I can prepare a lesson completely adapted to your needs.

Once the session is completed, you decide if it is the kind of Spanish lesson you are looking for and, if so, we talk about the doubts you may have to specify the schedules of your future lessons and other details.

You can only know if the lessons I offer are what you are looking for when you make your free and without commitment trial lesson. Apart from the quality of the lesson itself and the provided materials, it is especially important to see the chemistry that the student feels with regard to his/her teacher, we shouldn´t forget that, in the learning process, the brain needs to get excited, hence the importance of the affective component.

So that, for this learning to be 100% productive, you have to feel comfortable, being inside an agreeable and natural atmosphere, and you have to be with a teacher that transmits you entire confidence.

Lessons last 55 minutes and they are normally made through Skype, although we can use another platform at the request of the student. But, Why Skype? Because it is the most popular, easy to use and it is also free. Through this virtual platform we can have video calls in which we share documents, images, videos, audios, presentations and everything we may need to make our lessons more productive, interactive and fun.

Regardless of the course chosen, we work all the skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking and grammatical competence). You don´t need to purchase any manual or book for the lessons, all contents worked during the lesson, homework or any other type of material required by the student is provided through email. You will receive full support from your teacher throughout your learning process, being accompanied, guided and advised all the time and whenever you need it.

It is not obligatory, of course, and the student who does not want to use it will be fully respected, but it is highly advisable. As we said, the lessons are very personal and, if you want to have a more effective, close, nice and natural communication between student and teacher, it is better if we can face each other, also allowing the teaching-learning process to be more human for both sides.

Of course. You can cancel a lesson whenever you need it without any additional cost or loss of the lesson. Nevertheless, you must notify it with a minimum of 24 hours in advance via email. The student will recover that lesson at another time set with the teacher. The pack of purchased lessons have one year of expiration.

If you cancel with little time in advance or you do not attend the lesson, it will be deemed given and the amount will not be refunded, except under exceptional circumstances and for duly justified reasons.

The teacher will try to get in touch with the student and will wait up to 15 minutes. If past this time the student has not answered nor appeared, the lesson is considered cancelled and it will not be recovered in the future.

If this happens, do not worry, the lesson will simply be postponed to another day and in another schedule agreed between the student and the teacher.

The pack of lessons chosen will be paid via bank transfer. The teacher will provide the necessary data to carry out the above mentioned transfer via email.

The packs of lessons always receive a 10% discount when you are a new student and it is your first purchase.
This discount can be extended to future purchases if the student recommends the lessons to family and friends (that is, you will receive another 10% discount on your next pack of lessons purchase, if you recommend Talking Spanish Online to a friend or a relative and he/she enrolls).

The teacher lives in Spain, so the lessons fit to the Spanish hourly use. There are applications on Internet where you can consult the hourly areas and calculate the hourly difference between Spain and your country. For instance:

thetimezoneconverter.com

timeanddate.com

Although it is a very frequent question, unfortunately I can not give an exact answer, because that progress depends on the student, his/her motivation, goals, level of commitment, the number of lessons taken per week, etc.

Remember that the learning process is not a mathematical question, each student has his/her own rhythm and must be fully respected. What I can assure is that, as a teacher, I am of the entire conviction that any person, regardless of their nationality, culture or age, can learn a second language. Don´t forget: “If you can dream it, you can do it”, don´t you ever let anything or anyone tell you otherwise, not even yourself. I help you to get it.

Talking Spanish Online can not facilitate any diploma or official accreditation, since the lessons I offer are private and independent of any official institution. To receive an official certificate, you must obtain the DELE (Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language) from Instituto Cervantes (click here for further information). What I do offer is a course to help you prepare for the test you must do to obtain the above mentioned diploma.