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.

Sara is very accommodating for the student. She expects you to put effort in, but when family matters arise, she is a flexible as you could ask and genuinely cares what is going on in her student's life.

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?

A year ago I decided to commit to one year of "intense" study with Sara. (I'm in the dreaded "advanced-intermediate" zone, where it's really hard to figure out, day-to-day, if you are improving vs regressing.) A year later I'm amazed at how far I've come with Sara. She has a good sense of what I need as a student. Not just e.g. telling me we need to cover more basic topics before launching into advanced themes, but also with day-to-day gauging of how I'm responding. Some days I'm up for more challenges, other days I'm convinced I've regressed to A1, and she quickly adjusts to get my confidence (and level) back up. This is so important, as there are fewer objective signs of improvement versus stagnation that I can self-assess for. Sara has worked an amazing system for personalizing lessons, and I can't believe I would have advanced similarly with any other teacher. Unique among her peers!

Sara is always prepared and on time for lessons. When I am struggling with something, she immediately adjusts either the current or the next lesson plan to support my learning. She is a gifted and patient teacher who is sensitive to her students’ needs. And during a recent trip to Spain I was able to converse well with waiters, taxi drivers, guides, store clerks and hotel staff. ¡Buen trabajo, Sara!