With individual Spanish Zoom lessons, you can go as fast or as slow as you like. You are free to organize the lessons in accordance with your busy schedule. Individualized attention means you learn faster.

Our live group lessons follow a fixed schedule and enable you to benefit from learning from classmates of the same level. You’ll meet new and interesting people and explore your love of the Spanish language together.

We work with HR to train your employees in the language and cultural skills they will need to make your company successful on the world market. Our timely tracking and reporting system allows you to monitor progress.

You will envy the ability of your children to quickly learn new words in Spanish. Children’s lessons are structured with an eye to the developing mind and to making the environment a fun and productive one.

460 million people throughout the world call Spanish their native language, second to only Mandarin. In the United States alone, 13 percent of the population speaks it as their first language and it is projected that by 2050, it will overtake Mexico as the leading Spanish-speaking country in the world. In certain parts of the country (looking at you, Miami), it’s arguably number one already. The numbers speak for themselves.

Whether for professional, educational or recreational purposes, there are plenty of reasons to study Spanish. Perhaps you are conducting business in Latin America and need it to converse with clients. Someone else might be trying to obtain residency in Spain and are required to pass a language exam. Or maybe a family is taking a vacation to Cuba and craves the ability to communicate with the locals. Especially if you live in urban or suburban America, it’s very possible that you already have friends, classmates or colleagues with Spanish-speaking backgrounds. Some of our younger students have needed to learn it well for their AP exams.

The fact remains that as the population of Spanish speakers continues to grow both domestically and globally, so has the demand to learn it.

Additionally, Spanish is a pretty darn beautiful language to hear spoken and feels nice rolling off the tongue. The Spanish-speaking world has generated a fair share of the world’s classics in literature, music and poetry and continues to this day to exert a huge worldwide cultural influence.

But many of our students simply love the language – so let that be enough! Hasta pronto!

The short answer is no, not really. While learning any language presents its own challenges, acquiring at least a basic foundation of Spanish is far less daunting a task than mastering a “Category Five Language” such as Arabic or Mandarin. It’s a phonetic language whose alphabet is almost identical to English, so for the most part “what you see is what you get”. Yes, the “j” sounds like an “h”, and yes the “h” is silent, but Spanish isn’t meant to trick you. It’s not terribly idiomatic and generally speaking, one word contains one meaning. It certainly doesn’t force you to determine the context in every single conversation as you do in English.

The grammar, however, can be a bit more complex. Aside from simply knowing when to use “ser” or “estar” and “fue” or “era”, verb conjugations require constant repetition and lots of practice in order to use them correctly in everyday conversation. Some of these forms will also depend on whether you are studying Latin American Spanish or the version from Spain. Even within Latin America, you will variety among the different nations, in the same way you would throughout various regions of Spain.

That’s the beauty of languages. They are constantly evolving, yet they always find a way to keep us connected. At Ciao Languages, we’re here to connect you to the nearly half a billion Spanish speakers worldwide.

It’s important to be clear about this! Ciao Languages does not offer “online lessons,” where you go and consult a bunch of exercises on your phone or watch pre-recorded videos.

All of our Spanish Zoom lessons are “live”, i.e., held by a native speaker of Spanish who interacts with you directly.

The advantage is that you the student get immediate feedback on your pronunciation and on what it’s like to have an actual conversation in Italian.

You may learn a bit of grammar from an application like Babbel or Duolingo, but those systems do not really give you a sense of what it’s like to speak to a native in the language.

At Ciao Languages, we believe it’s important to interact with people who grew up speaking the language you are learning.

By “native speaking teacher,” we mean someone who was born and raised in a Spanish-speaking country, was educated there and has spent of deal of their lives thinking, understanding and speaking Spanish.

Undoubtedly, there are people who speak Spanish really well, and who are really good teachers, but at Ciao Langauges we want you the student to have the chance to have authentic interactions with a live Italian tutor who will give you the authentic experience of speaking Spanish.

Our live Spanish tutors are from all over the Spanish-speaking world and you will be exposed to a full range of regional accents and outlooks on life. Your language lesson will be more than a conversation with a native speaker, but an authentic cultural experience.

The Ciao Languages approach is a system of best practices, techniques and attitudes that the owner and Ciao Languages Founder and CEO Sean Cook has molded into a unique and effective teaching method. His experiences as a learner of Italian and French, as the owner of a language school and as a teacher trainer have informed his method, which is based on empathy, encouragement and student engagement.

By designing lessons with the specific needs of online Zoom lessons in mind, Ciao Languages makes the virtual lesson a live human experience.

The lesson slide decks that are used by the teacher contain explanations, as well as exercises and speaking practice activities that enable the student to immediately put new language into use.

At Ciao Languages teachers are trained to strike a balance between the need for the student to be accurate and to become fluent in the language they are learning.

We also firmly believe in making students feel as comfortable as possible during our lessons so that they can feel free to experiment with Italian and to engage in authentic communication with their Italian tutor.

What’s included?

• Live Zoom lessons with a native speaking Italian tutor
• Access to the recordings of all of your Italian Zoom lessons
• Access to the Ciao Languages Student Resource Center
• Access to the Mango Languages application

It would be dishonest of us to say otherwise, so YES, you need to study.

Think of it this way. Can you become good at playing the piano if you don’t practice every week? Can you lose weight without following a diet and/or an exercise regimen? Can you grow the muscles in your arm without lifting some weights or doing some push-ups?

But then again, when you start learning a language, there are just a few things to learn, so the amount of time you study is relatively little, maybe even about ten or fifteen minutes a day.

Our experience has been this, though: Students start studying Italian and then get really into it and somehow find the time to study a lot.

No se ganó Zamora en una hora! (Rome wasn’t built in a day) So, just get started and with time, you’ll find yourself studying joyfully and willingly, with results commensurate with your efforts.

And we will be there to cheer you on!

We’ll cheer you for your successes when you have a break-through.

We’ll give you the encouragement you need when you are getting frustrated. When you’re feeling frustrated, by the way, is usually what you feel just before a break-through – so be patient with yourself!

We’re in it together with you!