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Lorena Ruíz
Spanish
Native
Italian
English
Japanese

From Mexico

Living in Leon, Mexico

A guide to learn and understand Spanish. ¡Hola! ¿Cómo estás? My name is Lorena and I'm a Spanish professor. I have a B.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Second Language from the University of Guanajuato. I'm a curious teacher who loves sharing fun facts about Mexico’s history, culture, traditions, and customs. I enjoy hiking, animals, nature, visual art, and films. My classes focus on natural conversation, idioms, grammar, pronunciation, and topics that interest you. We can talk about culture, art, cinema, current events, or anything you like. While we speak, I’ll help you correct mistakes naturally so your Spanish becomes more fluent and authentic. I also speak intermediate English and Italian if needed. I'm a very curious teacher, I'd like to know about your interests to help you learn while you have a good time. In my classes, I try to include activities about culture and history. I have a lot of curious facts about Mexico to share! I have an intermediate level of English and Italian, so we can use these languages to communicate or solve questions, if needed. My classes are focused to practice your conversation, idioms, grammar and pronunciation with topics of your interest. I enjoy talking about history, culture and current events, but I can talk about anything you want! We will practice your conversation to detect grammar mistakes and correct them in no time, this way you will have a more natural and fluid Spanish.
My teaching material
  • PDF file
  • Text Documents
  • Presentation slides/PPT
  • Audio files
  • Image files
  • Video files
  • Flashcards
  • Articles and news
  • Quizzes
  • Homework Assignments
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Interests

Art
Environment & Nature
Travel
Trial Lesson
212 lessons completed
USD 13.00+
Hablemos en Español - Let´s speak Spanish
A2-C2
Conversation
998 lessons completed
USD 21.00+
5% off
Spanish for all levels (grammar and conversation)
A1-C2
Language Essentials
1,263 lessons completed
USD 23.00+
3% off
Redacción en español (Writing)
B1-C2
Language Essentials
89 lessons completed
USD 18.00+
10% off
Spanish with friends (Group class)
A1-B2
Language Essentials
17 lessons completed
USD 30.00+
5% off
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Patient·6
Structured lessons·3
Provides materials·2
For beginners·24
Arpan Barua
41 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
I have been working with Lorena for nearly the entire year, and I cannot be happier nor more grateful for the work we have done together. She has developed activities that are catered to my progress, ensuring that we are working on improvements that follow a personalized plan for me. She explains idioms and concepts like subjunctive in easy, digestible ways and makes all of it incredibly fun, with each of our sessions filled with laughter. I have seen major improvements in my comfort and fluency through working with her, and all of it could not have happened without her support. For those who are looking to learn and improve their Spanish, there is truly no better place to start than with Lorena.
Student Josh
Josh
17 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
Lorena is by far the best instructor I have ever had. I have tried other methods of learning Spanish but working with her has allowed me to progress quicker than ever and have the motivation to continue working on it. She is a very patient and encouraging instructor. She always comes prepared and provides me a plan for the next class. I always have plenty of time to speak and I get immediate feedback. She even goes as far as to explain the differences for casual and formal phrasing to help when I travel. We have covered foundational topics in different formats to keep learning interesting and challenging. I would recommend her to anyone interested in learning Spanish. She is the most accommodating, supportive, and instructive teacher I have had and will continue taking classes with her.
Tham Chui-Jun
8 Spanish lessons
Lorena is very friendly and encouraging. Her lessons are structured in a useful and engaging way. She begins by presenting on vocabulary or grammar, and then patiently facilitates a conversation. She provides a lot of opportunity to speak and send materials after the class for revision. My sister and I have lessons together with Lorena, and we enjoy them very much.
Student Joey K
Joey K
46 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
Lorena is one of the best teachers on i-talki. Its very hard to find a good teacher that you can trust and will be patient. Lorena is very nice, friendly, patient and caring. She will design a class that fits your learning needs weather you are a beginner or Advanced speaker. what ever you want to learn, she will help create a class that caters to your needs weather that is speaking, reading or writing. Not only that she will give you advice and tips on the Spanish language from pronunciation to rules of grammar. Her classes are also structured if that is what you are looking for and she has tons of material to help you learn. I definitely plan to take more classes with her to learn Spanish. Like I said before, its very hard to find a good teacher who you can trust and is nice, friendly, caring and patient . Its also hard to find a teacher that you can feel comfortable with and their teaching style. She is definitely one of the best teachers that you are going to find on italki.
Student James
James
2 Spanish lessons
I really enjoyed my trial class with Lorena. She was very enthusiastic, encouraging and easy for me to understand. I am looking forward to working with her.
Brian Escamilla
17 Spanish lessons
I always enjoy learning with Lorena. She is helpful with corrections, asks thoughtful questions that keep the conversations moving easily and works to make sure you understand tenses and conjugation. The hour flies by because in addition to the education, it is truly an enjoyable time.