Next Session
January 5th - February 13th
Conversation & Grammar Review Courses
TEACHING METHODOLOGY
- Guided and free conversation
- Guided storytelling and personal narratives
- Grammar review through speaking activities
- Role-plays and simulations
- Error correction during communication
- Cultural comparison and discussion
- Listening and speaking activities using authentic contexts
Each class includes 18 hours of instruction over a 6- week period and meets twice per week for 1.5 hours.
Tuition $110
Beginner Level: Hoy hablamos de...
Meeting details:
January 7th - February 13th
Wednesday and Friday 13:30 – 15:00
Cost: $
Additional Details:
Course Description: This course is designed to improve spoken Spanish while reviewing essential grammar. The class emphasizes practical communication, cultural awareness, and confidence in everyday situations. Grammar is reviewed at A1–A2 level and immediately practiced through conversation. Course Objectives: • Communicate confidently in common daily situations • Use basic Spanish grammar accurately in conversation • Understand and respond to native speakers in Cuenca • Expand practical vocabulary related to life in Ecuador • Improve pronunciation and listening comprehension
Intermediate Level: Lo que pasa, Lo que pasó y lo que pasará...
Meeting details:
January 6th – February 12th
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 – 10:30
Cost: $
Additional Details:
Course Description: This course is designed to speak more fluently and accurately while reviewing and mastering key verb tenses. The course focuses on narrating the past, describing the present, and expressing future plans, predictions, and hypothetical situations, all within real-life contexts relevant to living in Cuenca, Ecuador. Grammar review (B1–B2) is always practiced through guided and free conversation, storytelling, and discussion. Course Objectives: • Narrate past events using pretérito and imperfecto accurately • Talk about life experiences using present perfect and past perfect • Express plans, predictions, and intentions using future tenses • Discuss hypothetical situations using the conditional • Compare past and present experiences living in Ecuador • Speak with greater fluency, confidence, and grammatical accuracy
Advanced Level: Latinoamérica: Podcast y Conversación
Meeting details:
January 6th – February 12th
Tuesdays and Thursdays 13:30 – 15:00
Cost: $
Additional Details:
Course Description: This advanced Spanish course is designed for students who already communicate fluently and want to refine accuracy, nuance, and sophistication in spoken Spanish. The course integrates advanced grammar review (C1–C2)—particularly past tenses, perfect tenses, conditional forms, and the Indicative vs. Subjunctive mood—through in-depth discussion of Latin American culture, history, politics, and social issues. Grammar is not studied in isolation but used as a tool to analyze reality, express opinions, narrate complex events, and debate hypothetical scenarios. Course Objective: • Narrate and analyze past events with stylistic and grammatical precision • Use pretérito, imperfecto, present perfect, past perfect, and conditional accurately and expressively • Master the use of Indicative vs. Subjunctive in complex spoken discourse • Express opinions, doubts, emotions, criticism, and hypotheses fluently • Discuss Latin American social, political, and cultural realities at an advanced level • Adapt register and tone for academic, professional, and informal conversations.
Class Information
• Session's run for 6 weeks. We meet twice a week for 1 1/2 hours each class.• In the first week of class you will receive a novel and class packet.• One Saturday each session we will have a day of activities, conversations, and games.• The cost of the session is $110 for 6 weeks of classes.• Click on the triangle for more detailed information about classes in that level.
Beginner Classes
Story learning is a process that is based on how human beings naturally learn their native language. It uses the power of story to teach you Spanish from the very beginning.
In Beginner 1 we build our foundation with the alphabet, numbers, adjectives, and regular verbs. We will also practice phonetics, pronunciation, basic grammar structure, and vocabulary for daily use.
Moving onto Beginner 2 we will develop more grammar concepts such as present tense irregular verbs, the immediate future, interrogative words, possessive adjectives and pronouns, the progressive form, impersonal sentences and finally comparatives and superlatives. It sounds like a lot, but I promise it will be very easy.
Graduating to Beginner 3 we will cover a few more grammar concepts like reflexive pronouns, indefinite adjectives and pronouns, the diminutive and the argumentative, and the regular past tense. From there we will dive into some Spanish concepts like por vs. para, imperative, and verbs like gustar.
Intermediate Classes
Intermediate ranks helps engage in authentic meaningful conversations that go beyond simple phrases. Lots of exposure to real, natural Spanish to help you reach fluency.
In Intermediate 1 we work on putting together the concepts from our beginner classes and work on further our Spanish foundations. In this level we will introduce the preterit (+ verbs with specials meanings in the preterit), tenses for regular and irregular verbs, and do and io pronouns, as well as working on our expression of certain situations (a completed action or a series of completed actions and a condition that is no longer in effect).
When you reach Intermediate 2 we begin to study the imperfect (past tense for descriptions), further study into the preterit (past tense for events), and prepositions. We will compare and see when to use each tense as well as explore the different uses of Se.
We start to finish off our tense work in Intermediate 3 with the present perfect, the past perfect, the future, and the conditional. We will also work on improving our conversational skills by learning about and using connectors in our speech.
You made it to Intermediate 4 congratulations! In this class we prepare yo to transition to the advanced level. We will focus on pronunciation and improving our vocabulary to sound more natural. This is a great class to shore up any weak points you may have before moving onto the advanced levels.
Advanced Classes
Becoming advanced in Spanish requires you to learn vocabulary and phrases. Conversational connectors and Spanish idioms will help you not only keep the conversation going, but sound more natural while you do it.
Welcome to the Advanced classes. In this first level we will review and reinforce what you have learned so far. We will work on our conversations and introduce the subjunctive.
This level of Advanced classes is to continue conversational practice. In this level we will converse about Latin American topics based on podcasts and journalistic articles. And as always we will continue to review vocabulary and advanced grammar.
Online Classes
I offer online classes so that you can learn Spanish from anywhere in the world. I offer 1:1 and group sessions. Please Contact me for more information on these types of classes.
Online classes can be tailored in many ways to find the learning experience that works best for you. We can review topics you feel need additional reinforcement, or we can dive into new areas to help you improve your Spanish.