One-to-one conversation lessons to actually loosen up. No grammar book in front of you: you speak from the first minute, about things that matter to you, with someone who corrects you without cutting you off.
Preparing someone who's about to travel isn't the same as preparing someone who hasn't used English in ten years. The starting point is what you want it for.
What we practise isn't vocabulary from a list, it's getting by with what you already know when something doesn't go to plan.
What we practiseGoal: travel without hunting for someone who speaks Spanish.
The gap is rarely your level: it's having the phrases automatic so you're not translating while everyone else moves on.
What we practiseGoal: stop being the one who says nothing in meetings.
What holds you back here isn't grammar, it's the fear of being asked to repeat yourself. We work on the English people actually use with friends.
What we practiseGoal: join the conversation instead of just nodding.
You studied it for years, you were good at it, and you haven't used it in a decade. There's no need to start from scratch: it's about unblocking what's still in there.
What we practiseGoal: get back to the level you had, then go past it.
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It's the most repeated sentence in a first lesson. It's almost never a level problem: it's a lack of mileage speaking.
You think the sentence in Spanish, translate it, and by the time it comes out the conversation has moved on. That's fixed with speaking volume, not more grammar.
You recognise it when reading and it won't surface when speaking. That's passive vocabulary: stored, but not to hand. It has to be pushed into use.
You get by, but with a minimal set you reuse for everything. Widening it is exactly what makes you sound natural instead of like a textbook.
Nobody expects you to sound native. What we do work on is being understood: the sounds that don't exist in Spanish and where the stress falls in each word.
With someone speaking slowly you manage. With a series or a work call it all falls apart. Speed is trainable too.
You default to the present because the past makes you hesitate and you'd rather not stop. Tenses become automatic by speaking, not by filling in gaps.
No grammar worksheets up front. The structure is designed so that the person speaking most is you.
Five minutes on how your week went, to shake off the rust before getting into it. The first sentence is always the hardest one.
A real topic chosen with you: a news story, a situation you have coming up, something you care about. No textbook dialogues.
Borja notes down mistakes while you speak, but doesn't interrupt. Cutting in every two sentences is the fastest way to make someone stop talking.
At the end you go through the noted mistakes and the new vocabulary, and it's saved in writing in your account for next time.
Online by video call, Monday to Friday from 9am to 9pm. One-to-one or as a duo with another student at your level.
A conversation lesson isn't just chatting for a while. Behind it there's preparation, correction and a record of how you're progressing.
In a one-to-one lesson you speak for the full 55 minutes. In a group of ten you'd speak for five.
Built around what interests you and what you're actually going to need, not a fixed syllabus.
Mistakes are noted while you speak and reviewed at the end, so you don't lose your flow just as you were finding it.
The sounds that don't exist in Spanish and the words where we tend to put the stress in the wrong place, one by one.
The expressions that come up in class are collected in your account so you can review them between sessions.
With an A2 you can already do conversation: the topic and the pace are adapted to what you can sustain. Below that it's worth building some base first, and we'll tell you honestly in the trial lesson.
It happens in almost every first lesson and it's expected. Borja comes with the topic prepared and keeps things moving with questions: he won't leave you in an awkward silence.
Not on the spot, and that's deliberate. Mistakes are noted while you speak and reviewed at the end, because interrupting every two sentences is what makes people close up and stop taking risks.
Yes, as a duo, and for conversation it works particularly well because the interaction between you comes into play. You should be at a similar level, though, so neither of you gets left behind.
With one lesson a week, people usually notice they get going faster after four or five weeks. Fluency is a question of mileage: there's no shortcut, but the progression is fairly predictable.
30 minutes of real conversation to see where you are and tell you honestly what's worth working on. No commitment and no payment details required.