21 countries · two continents · one language
Order properly. Stay longer.
Spanish is the language I did my degree in, in Bogotá, and lived in for six years. Here's the shortcut I wish someone had given me.
Book a free trial lessonWhy Spanish changes how a trip feels
Spanish is the difference between eating where the menu has photographs and eating where the waiter tells you what's good today. Same street, different holiday.
It's also the highest-return language on the map for a traveller. Twenty-one countries, from Mexico City to Patagonia, and none of them expect you to be perfect — they just light up when you try.
And it's kind to beginners. The sounds are few and stable, the spelling matches the speech, and you can hold a real conversation months before you can hold a real conversation in most languages.
Where you start
Four routes through Spanish. Most travellers start at Survival and are surprised how far it carries them.
Beginner
Present tense, hundred core words, and the confidence to say something wrong out loud. That last part is the hard one.
Survival travel
Checking in, buying tickets, asking for the bill, explaining an allergy, getting help when a plan collapses.
Conversational
Past tenses, opinions, jokes that land. Talking to someone for an hour without switching to English.
Advanced
Subjunctive without panic, regional accents from Andalucía to Buenos Aires, arguing about football convincingly.
What a lesson actually looks like
- 1
We start talking immediately, in Spanish, about your week.
- 2
One scene we rehearse properly — a tapas bar order, a bus station, a flat viewing.
- 3
I correct in the moment for anything that blocks understanding, and save the rest for the end.
- 4
You leave with five phrases and one small mission before the next lesson.
Things we'll practise
- Ordering tapas like you've been there before
- Haggling at a mercado without being rude
- Small talk with your Airbnb host
- Asking directions and actually following the reply
- Making friends in a hostel kitchen
- Dealing with a lost bag, a wrong charge, or a pharmacy
Twenty free minutes, entirely in Spanish if you dare.
Twenty minutes, no payment details, no sales pitch. We talk about where you're going and I tell you honestly what's possible before you get there.
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