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Mafe Martinez

Community Tutor

Teaches

Spanish

Native

Speaks

English

French

Colombian teacher with ample experience working with beginners as well as advanced students

Teaches

Spanish

Native

Speaks

English

French

Colombian teacher with ample experience working with beginners as well as advanced students

About Me

Me as a Teacher

My lessons & teaching style

Resume & Certificates

From ColombiaLiving in Barcelona, Spain (16:31 UTC+02:00)

About Me

italki teacher since Sep 10, 2013

InterestsArtHistoryReadingBusiness & FinanceTravel

Hi! I'm Mafe and I'm from Colombia. After living in many different places, I have settled down in Spain (at least for a while). I love traveling, history, cultures and photography. And I am always happy to learn new things from my students as I help them practice conversation about their favorite topics.

Me as a Teacher

I have been teaching Spanish since 2012 and I love it. It makes me very happy to see students that didn't know any Spanish when they first started are now speaking with confidence and are able to hold conversations in Spanish.

My lessons & teaching style

I encourage active learning rather than passive learning, which means that I help my students think and express themselves and their ideas in Spanish from the very beginning. If the student knows enough Spanish to hold conversations, I'll help them practice talking about different subjects. I'll propose a topic and then ask questions related to it that forces them to think and express ideas in Spanish. If the student is new to Spanish I'll explain some concepts first, then we do exercises, we practice and apply what we have learned and I'll even give some homework if the student wants to practice on their time off.

My teaching material

Image files
Articles and news
PDF file
Audio files
Quizzes
Text Documents

Education

2004 - 2009

Bachelor’s - EngineeringUniversidad LibreBS's in Industrial Enginering

5.0

Rating

Students

530

Lessons

100%

Attendance rate

94%

Response rate

5.0

Rating

Students

530

Lessons

100%

Attendance rate

94%

Response rate

Spanish Lessons

Trial Lesson

29 lessons completed

USD 6.00+

Spanish for Beginners

A1 - A2

Language Essentials

493 lessons completed

USD 10.00+

Package with 10% off

Conversation Practice in Spanish

A1 - C2

Language Essentials

2 lessons completed

USD 8.00+

Package with 5% off

Intermediate and Advanced Spanish

B1 - C2

Language Essentials

5 lessons completed

USD 8.00+

Package with 5% off

Availability

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203 Reviews

John

14 Spanish lessons

Teacher’s pick

Mafe is so patient and explains things so well, especially things like subjunctive, which she then uses to build up your ability to talk more naturally. Brilliant!

Oct 27, 2016

Nicole

6 Spanish lessons

Teacher’s pick

He olvidado que facil es hablar con Mafe. Estoy muy feliz que he decidido de estudiar Español otra vez, y estoy segura que Mafe va a ayudar me en mi aprendizaje!

Jun 16, 2016

Stephen Payne

7 Spanish lessons

Me gustó mucho mi primera clase con Mafe. Hablamos sobre cosas diferentes y me parecí que Mafe es una persona muy paciente y muy amable. Tengo muchas ganas de mejorar mi español con ella.

Sep 6, 2018