Spanish for Travelers, Spring 2012, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Are you traveling to a Spanish speaking country? Are you doing business in Mexico? Or would you like to brush up on your Spanish? If so, this is the class for you. Spanish for Travelers is a beginners class and students will learn through a variety of conversational exercises. Join us and experience how learning Spanish will change your travel experience.

Lessons are for beginners and will be taught through speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Text: Easy Spanish Step-by-Step by Barbara Bregstein.

Dates: Thursdays, starting April 12, 2012 to May 24, 2012  (7 sessions)

Time: 6:00 PM -7:30 PM

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Tuesday evenings Spanish program

Are you traveling  to a Spanish speaking country? Are you doing business in Mexico? or , would you like to brush up on your Spanish? If so, this is the class for you. Spanish for Travelers is a beginners class and students will learn through a variety of conversational exercises. Come see how learning Spanish can change your travel experience. Text: “Easy Spanish Step-by-Step” by Barbara Bregstein, available at most popular bookstores.

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Spanish tutor Detroit

Karen is another very smart student learning Spanish with us.  She is about to start her second year of college and she contacted me because she needed to practice speaking Spanish.  Like other students, our sessions consist basically of conversations and as we progress, we focus on the areas in which she needs practice Spanish. To learn Spanish through real conversations is the most natural way to learn Spanish.  It takes some classes to achieve that level but even our new students start speaking from the very first day.  Practice makes perfection and the first few times it is not always right but to listen yourself speaking Spanish is something most of our students find very rewarding.

School and college Spanish focus on grammatical terms and explanations and a lot of multiple-choice questions.  Spanish needs to be spoken, listened to, read and written to get a strong foundation.  Karen speaks throughout most of our Spanish class and I only help her when she needs it, when she asks for clarifications or to bring new topics to talk about.  She and her parents believe being able to speak Spanish is a requirement for a great professional and personal life.

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Speaking Spanish

Learning Spanish, like is learning anything worthwhile, is a life-learning project.  I am talking from my personal experience.  Back in Madrid, Spain, my parents pushed my my brother and I to learn to english.  None of them spoke english nor any degree but my father as well as my mother thought speaking english will be key for our professional and personal lives.  At the time I had a difficult time understanding them as I lived and studied in a Spanish speaking country and my family and friends spoke Spanish.

As I grew and started to like traveling and conversing with locals wherever I happened to travel:  countries like Japan, Turkey… I would find locals who spoke english.

Smart travelers don’t want to be simply be a tourist but want to experience the full thrill of communicating and speaking Spanish with locals to the regions they travel to.  Talk to any of my students after they return from Mexico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Spain… and let them tell you their experience when speaking Spanish.

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