Profesora de español con 5 años y medio de experiencia en todos los niveles.
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Spanish
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English
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Italian
Profesora de español con 5 años y medio de experiencia en todos los niveles.
About Me
Me as a Teacher
My lessons & teaching style
From ColombiaLiving in Bogota, Colombia (20:33 UTC-05:00)
About Me
italki teacher since Jan 20, 2015
Interest topicFilms & TV SeriesHistoryTravel
I love traveling, writing, reading, teaching and learning different languages, I choose this as a career because I love knowing different people around the world, they are not my students they are my friends I learn a lot of invaluable things with this kind of job, and at the same time I love my mother tongue and I'm always excited about sharing things about my own culture. In my free time, i love planning new trips, listening music, cooking something new or writing a post on my personal blog.
Me as a Teacher
My name is Lorena Castaño Alvarez im professional in Modern Languages (English, French and Italian), and an extra study in business translation, I love teaching and I have three years of experience teaching Spanish as professional in Whee Institute a school in my city Bogotá, I use to teach all the levels: A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1, with reading, exercises, speaking and different games (especially games!) for creating a dynamic environment.
My lessons & teaching style
I teach all the levels, but i have for each one a different methodology:
A1: In this part the most important thing is getting new vocabulary and learn the phonetics, in this level i teach basic sentence, personal presentation, how to ask for the address, present tense, progressive and reflexives.
A2: In this part we will start with the past tense, future, imperative, OD and OI.
B1: In this part we check the subjuntive and conditional. (Conversational class.
B2: Future subjuntive, perfect subjuntive (Conversational class).
C1: Conversational class and writting skils
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My teaching material
Text Documents
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Articles and news
Quizzes
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Graphs and charts
5.0
Rating
515
Students
3,039
Lessons
98%
Attendance
96%
Response
5.0
Rating
515
Students
3039
Lessons
98%
Attendance
96%
Response
Spanish Lessons
Trial Lesson
149 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
General lesson
A1 - C1General1,895 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
Package with 7% off
Conversational class
A2 - C1Conversation Practice611 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
Beginners - Welcome to your journey
A1General213 lessons completed
USD 10.00+
Package with 7% off
Past tense in spanish
A2 - B1General64 lessons completed
USD 12.00+
Package with 16% off
Subjunctive mood
B1 - C2General102 lessons completed
USD 16.00
Package with 12% off
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468 Reviews
jamie k
61 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
i have recommended lorena to 4 friends, because there is no better teacher at meeting you at your spanish level, while also slowly challenging your vocabularly and conjugation. she makes good conversation, has interesting visual aids that prompt discussion, and is especially good at dealing with spanglish -- the crazy phrases and words we use when we're learning spanish -- she can figure it out. you won't find a better teacher.
May 10, 2024
Eduardo
14 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
Excellent! Lorena is very attentive to her student's needs. She is also very flexible with a great variety of very suitable exercises. Highly recommended!
Nov 12, 2020
john
18 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
Lorena adjusted her schedule to accommodate mine, a very good benefit.
She was courteous and helpful. I am doing the long slog through the subjunctive which is very hard and seems to have a million rules and exceptions to rules. Lorena can explain all this in Spanish or English.
Five Star all the way.
Apr 4, 2017
Michael
1 Spanish lesson
Thank you for the lesson Lorena. I learned a lot
Jul 8, 2024
Karin Lavie
12 Spanish lessons
Lorena is incredibly caring and supportive. I've learned so much from her and am so grateful for her help! Highly recommend to all who are trying to learn Spanish in a fun and interactive way.
Jun 27, 2024
Val
8 Spanish lessons
Always a joy to talk with Lorena, and very informative. Thank you!