Specialized online Spanish lessons: Learning to speak, Speaking to learn

“Learning to Speak, Speaking to Learn”: I love this slogan because it says a lot about my teaching approach. I know that reading and writing are useful, and important, but they’re best worked on once we’ve already gained some confidence in speaking. In a lesson, one of my main jobs is to provide useful feedback. It doesn’t mean simply reformulating a sentence or correcting something you can rectify yourself. It’s about helping to develop criteria, so you can learn how to use the right structure and the right words at the right time. Through this process, Spanish needs to feel clear and natural to you, the same way your first language does.