.....CONTACT:
If you would like Spanish lessons, call me at 323-405-2383 for a consultation.
——Hola! This is Lissette and below you'll see how I became a Spanish conversational expert! First, you can read a few reviews about me. There are more than 20 online.
Reviews:
1. On a google business: https://g.co/kgs/Ct2pAv
2. https://www.languagewhiz.com/re (via Facebook users)
3. On Yelp: Search for 'Language Whiz'.
4. https://www.languagewhiz.com/testimonials (these I've collected through
the years)
Also, I passed with top grades the three required Spanish CSET Single Subject Exams (grammar, linguistics, literature analysis, writing/speaking skills), that are used to assess mastery of specific matter by candidates for the single-subject (secondary) teaching
MY EXPERTISE---SPANISH CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS:
Most of my students feel like they have gotten as far as they could learning Spanish by themselves. They've been studying with apps, at learning centers, in high school and in college, and they feel that their conversational skills should be further along. For the past 17 years, I've been helping my clients make a quick transition from theoretical Spanish to practical spoken Spanish. Hola
I help my clients acquire conversational skills quickly by:
Teaching them a system that delivers basic conversational skills in three months.
BY THE END OF SIX MONTHS, MY CLIENT'S SKILLS INCLUDE:
---Handling simple transactions in Spanish (at a hotel, ordering food, managing transportation abroad, buying items).
---Finally sustaining simple conversations with new acquaintances and old friends who speak Spanish. Speaking Spanish to the family of their significant other.
---Having conversations in present, past and future tenses.
---Understanding conversations of those who speak Spanish around them, such as coworkers, neighbors, at a store, etc.
---Being able to sustain a job that requires Spanish skills, by being able to interact with coworkers and clients in Spanish.
---Understanding Spanish spoken on radio, TV and on the street.
WHY THIS METHOD WORKS:
---I provide you with drills that I have created which will help you to quickly ask and answer questions.
---My classes focus on speaking. Whether with situational dialogues I've collected through the years, or with the use of several drills and exercises, or with conversations that we improvise in the moment, you will be speaking a lot. That's how you know you will be able to speak Spanish outside of class, because you've been practicing conversations in class from day one.
---Though I focus on conversation, I also teach you grammar. Grammar takes out the random element of learning a language. Why? Because grammar rules are the multiplication tables and formulas that will exponentialize your learning. Otherwise, learning a language is like doing multiplication by using your fingers. It will take you a long time to learn the basics of speaking a language without appropriate grammar lessons. At the very least grammar helps you understand how English and Spanish are different, so that you don't get confused with tricky word order.
After 17 years of teaching Spanish, I know grammar rules by heart, and I can teach them to you at the same time that I provide you with drills, and at the same time that I converse with you in Spanish!!
By now, I intuitively know how folks learn a language.
---I know English and Spanish really well so I can explain complicated Spanish concepts to you in English, which expedites your learning.
---I teach with a Spanish grammar book that you can follow at home for even quicker results.
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