Se Habla Español

I’m so glad I found Se habla español! They quickly diagnosed my level and started targeting the areas I needed to work on most. Instruction is extremely organized, and they are excellent at seamlessly correcting pronunciation and grammar even in the middle of conversation practice. I look forward to many, many more sessions and can’t recommend them enough.

I began studying with Ricardo in January 2015 in order to prepare for an international work assignment. I studied Spanish in high school & took some college courses, but felt I didn’t have recent experience with conversing in the language and I wanted to review all grammar concepts. I originally signed up for a 12 hour package, but I have continued studying with Ricardo because I have significantly improved my Spanish speaking ability. These are the top reasons I think Se Habla Español is a great choice for studying Spanish:
1. The course material is all included and it is top quality. As I mentioned, I’ve studied using high school and college text books. Ricardo has chosen a quality language workbook for some of his beginner exercises, but he also creates his own exercises. Usually textbook exercises repetitively practice one grammatical concept instead of incorporating more, however Ricardo’s exercises incorporate multiple concepts which is why I am a huge fan of the exercises he makes for practice.
2. It’s flexible. As someone with a very busy work schedule I appreciate someone willing to meet me for classes. He is extremely flexible is scheduling classes around my other work. For example I had to reschedule 3 different classes (once when I was sick, and 2 others for work travel), Ricardo was able to accommodate each time change with no extra hassle or cost.
3. It’s personal. What I wanted out of the class is probably different than someone who is a complete beginner. I wanted half of the class speaking and half of the class grammar. So usually we spent the 1^st 45 minutes talking completely in Spanish on a topic. I did most of the talking, with Ricardo asking questions to keep me talking, or offering some information to the topic. I even had flexibility choosing the topic such as: the championship game of a sport, or medical discussions, etc. And I even had input in the grammar lessons. Once I found a type of exercise I felt I learned well from, I asked for more of that same type and Ricardo would always try to create/​find more like it for the next class/​concept.