Spanish 55

I absolutely love Spanish55! I started with Spanish55 last December. I thought I would just test it out but then I found out I absolutely love it! It is so convenient to learn from home with the comfort of your own computer via Skype. I feel like I personally know these guys and we have never physically met. I have learned so much from them. I have been taking consistent lessons a few times a week for the last eight months and I feel I can read Spanish now and get about 70 percent as to what it is saying. I am also getting better at speaking it and also listening to it and understanding what is being said. My teacher Rodrigo is amazing! My lessons are also tailored to me specifically as I work one on one with my coach. I can ask questions and bring up new ideas and Spanish55 is always willing to adjust accordingly. They pair you up with teachers that really get you and your personality based on the Myers Briggs profile tests. They are also very flexible with scheduling and that is important since my schedule is always changing since I am in sales and an actress. This place is definitely a class act and highly recommend them! Thanks Spanish 55. I look forward to getting fluent in Spanish soon :)

If you’re looking for an effective way to learn Spanish, you’re in the right place! Spanish 55 makes immersion learning possible from your home and they tailor the lessons to your specific learning style and goals. Since I am headed into the medical field my particular focus now is learning more medical terminology and using spanish on the job. Spanish 55 was able to identify both my strengths and weaknesses through an assessment so that I didn’t have to cover information I already knew and they were able to hone in on learning exactly what I wanted to learn. I highly recommend them!

I started with Spanish55 in November of last year, and less than 10 sessions later I have already seen amazing results. I’m probably not your typical student because I had a ton of grammatical and vocabulary knowledge already but I found that even though I could understand a lot, I couldn’t get the words out. I could listen, read, and write at a fairly high level, but could barely put a sentence together out loud. All that memorization of grammar tables did me little good when it came time to call up a certain verb fast enough to talk to a child or parent at work. I took classes, I used just about every free resource out there on the internet. It didn’t help. Then I saw an ad for Spanish55 and I knew this was what I needed — if you want to learn to speak a language, you have to practice speaking it. Not listening to TV shows, reading books, or writing. Speaking. To a person, in real time. And it worked! My confidence has improved and I’m now using Spanish fairly regularly in a professional setting. The method that they use is simple, but so effective: find out what you want to say, give you the vocabulary you need to say it, and then role play over and over until you have it down pat. By the time you’re done, you haven’t memorized a script — you actually know the words to get your message across, usually in several different ways. My coach (Mayra) does a fantastic job of anticipating things I might need, tossing in unexpected new questions or jokes to the role play to make sure I’m still thinking, not just reciting. And she’s wonderful with helping me through the ups and downs of learning a language — it’s ten steps forward and two steps back, but that’s okay. «La practica hace el maestro». Most importantly, they have a whole team available if you ever find yourself with some tricky jargon you need a translation for — for instance, I learned to say «single-​subject experimental designs» last week. I highly recommend this service to professionals, students, and anyone who wants to brush up on their Spanish or even learn a new language from scratch :).