Sara

Sara is a fantastic teacher! I have learned so much from her over the past 2.5 years and my Spanish has definitely improved. I love Sara's organized and structured lessons where she clearly explains concepts and then gives ample opportunity to practice. She provides homework to help students internalize the learning points, and gives numerous examples to help me improve. She is extremely friendly, motivating, and hardworking - she deeply cares about all of her students and has helped me thrive! She is also excellent at providing varied practice so I could improve my oral, listening, and writing skills. When I first started my lessons with Sara, I knew some grammar points from my high school classes, but I had mostly forgotten them. Because of Sara, she helped me learn so much that I can now speak with more confidence and ease. Thank you Sara - you have been an incredible teacher these past few years and I have loved all of our lessons!

If you truly want to be fluent in Spanish, and have the discipline & dedication to put in the work week over week to achieve this – then Sara is the right tutor for you. Sara is extremely organized and a phenomenal guide on the journey to learning a language. With over 5 years of experience teaching Spanish on learning platforms like Italki, she first assesses your current capabilities and then customizes a roadmap/gameplan to improve your Spanish. If you feel that the plan needs to slow down or speed up, Sara has the flexibility to adjust in real time. Sara comes prepared to every class with activities, drills, tests and conversation topics to ensure you are progressing and reaching your language goals. With the help of Sara, I have gone from a beginner level, barely being able to put sentences together, to now, being able to confidently have full conversations with native speakers.

In contrast to other teachers that I have learned from, the time in the class is very focused, with little "small talk" conversation. Makes each session feel like double the value thos of other teachers. (Nothing bad about the other teachers - sometimes I'm actually aiming to have a meandering, wide-ranging talk. There are great folks for that!) But for focusing on grammar, advancing my level, etc., Sara is uniquely deliberate.

Sara is a peerless teacher from my experience, and I've had a few teachers. I've been taking lessons with her for almost 3 years and she's super organised, her classes are challenging but interesting, and she's got an amazing personality too, so will keep you entertained throughout. She's also super patient, attentive and will correct all your errors mid-conversation, thus helping you improve more quickly. Sara is a consummate professional, however like anything in life you get out what you put in, but it's important to choose a teacher like Sara who works very hard to help you as an individual and continuously improves her classes and techniques. She also develops her own supplementary resources including podcasts and magazines to support the learning process outside of classes. What more could you want?

I've taken Spanish classes for many years, and Sara is the first professor who could explain the uses of ser vs. estar vs. haber vs. tener in a way that's easy to understand, and matches how they're used in real life. It's a super fundamental concept in trying to learn the language and I'm happy to finally have some clarity. Also, her assignments and exercises are challenging enough to be thought provoking and interesting, but not so hard that I want to give up and quit. She makes a conscious effort to find the balance there, and adjusts if needed based on the interaction.

I had a trial lesson with Sara. I found Sara to be organised and had a clear approach in her teaching. Everything was explained clearly and well planned out.