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Conversational
Spanish Small Group Tutoring Sessions
Assembled by Spanish Blackbelt
General
Characteristics
Groups
are assembled by Spanish Black Belt throughout
the year
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Groups
are very small in size (up
to 4 students per group)
- Conversation
Spanish Small Group Tutoring Sessions in DC, VA,
MD, NYC, North Jersey NJ, Boston MA, Chicago IL,
and Denver CO currently have an amazingly
small size of two to four students, a
size that fosters your learning and promotes personal
interaction.
- In
contrast, classes at colleges and traditional
language institutes because of their size of 15
to 20 students each have no alternative but to
offer lecture-style classes that focus a lot on
grammar and little in practice and conversation.
What ends up happening after finishing a term
with them is that you may understand some grammar
but on the other hand you end up not even being
able to conduct a minimum conversation in Spanish.
Focuses
on developing conversational skills through professional
guidance
- Our
Spanish small group sessions will focus
on developing your conversational skills,
speaking and listening, while still helping you
improve in all other skills of the language: reading,
writing, grammar and vocabulary acquisition.
- Our
group sessions will also be professionally
guided so that you don't just practice
speaking Spanish with native speakers but have
real improvement that will take you to the next
levels.
You
study with others at the same level
- Sharing
classes with a small group of other highly
motivated students is a great way to
expand your knowledge of Spanish and expand your
personal network.
- Practicing
in a group matched by ability
can be comforting and inspirational
because you see other students working through
the same language challenges you are tackling.
It also helps everyone to learn from each other’s
mistakes. Other non-native speakers understand
what you are accomplishing and have lots of patience
as you speak because, believe it or not, they’re
gaining just as much from listening to you as
you are from practicing speaking.
Meets face-to-face on two-hour sessions once a week for
8 weeks
- You will meet face-to-face with your other classmates and your tutor at a convenient cafe or at your tutor's home without needing to commute far away from where you live.
- Group will meet 1 day a week on a two-hour session each week, on either a weeknight or on weekends.
- It is expected that you will need to attend sessions for 8 weeks in order to cover the material required to move forward to the next belt level (i.e. white belt to yellow belt).
- Despite having covered all the required material, you will still need to successfully pass the next belt level examination to be granted that next belt level.
Affordable
- Conversational
Spanish Small Group Tutoring Sessions in DC, VA,
MD, NYC, North Jersey NJ, Boston MA, Chicago IL,
and Denver CO are custom-designed to quickly
lead you to Spanish proficiency while
sharing the fun - and cost - with few other students.
- You
pay about half of the price of Tailored One-on-One
Spanish Instruction, but still benefit from a
closely focused learning experience.

Washington
DC - Maryland - Northern Virginia VA -
Boston MA - Baltimore MD
Denver CO - New York City NY - New Jersey
NJ - Chicago IL
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