Let’s take a walk. Join me on a walk through the botanical gardens , practice your listening skills and chat to to the squirrels. How much can you follow? Remember you don’t need to be able to understand every single word or phrase to be able to communicate. But you do need to practice lots and often [More…]

Next Sunday we will be hearing each others’ presentations and discussing them. Here, I introduce the session in Spanish…

We all like to get something for free, and if you are looking for free Spanish learning resources on the internet, you’ll be spoilt for choice. Lots of it is very good and you can learn things and make some progress in learning a language. The chances are though, if you are reading this, you’ve not found this process entirely [More…]

A: No! My prices are excellent value all year round, and if I offered discounts, this is simply not fair to my regular and loyal students. You can sign up to SPANISH CLUB at any time, or register for YA HABLO ESPANOL knowing you are getting the best price and great value for money.

There’s something for everyone with prices from [More…]

Do you need to level up your Spanish skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing? From my point of view, learning a foreign language is like building a table. A table has four legs; a language has four skills: speaking, listening, writing and reading. When you build a table, you measure each leg the same length. However, with a language [More…]

Teachers I have known and admired are always welcoming,  accessible, gentle but firm, determined, understanding, easy-going, humorous, and someone who sees mistakes and “stuck moments” as opportunities to improve, move on and grow.

Thus I have created my own method with a strong communicative focus. From my point of view, the first aim of a language is to be spoken and [More…]

Yesterday I was telling you about one of my blockages in my path of learning foreign languages:  situations that made me feel embarrassed, put off, disappointed, useless, inferior to others…

Today I would like to describe the alternative atmosphere I would like to offer you on your journey to speaking fluent Spanish:

• In Spanish with Victoria, all my students get the [More…]
  

I have been learning languages since I was 10 years old. I have learned English, German and French. I have always loved it, really loved it, but I must admit that I have gone through really embarrassing and putting off situations like:

• being in a group where most people could speak better than me (or that was only my impression)

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It’s amazing the wealth of resources available online to help us to learn Spanish. And much of it is excellent!  You will be able to find whatever you need to help with grammar, vocabulary, idioms, false friends, the main mistakes in Spanish… to all level of Spanish learners!  Thanks to all the teachers who make all this available to us!

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Every two months our Sunday Spanish Club devotes itself to discussing a Hispanic film. This week we will watch “Volver” by Pedro Almodóvar, and on Sunday we will have a discussion about the film. We’ll look at the role of women in Almodóvar´s films, analyse some of the topics in the film, social classes, the plot of the film, the [More…]