Professional evaluation and exercises in order to know your Spanish level, expectations and goals.
In this session we can agree a study plan or proyect. It will be focused on improve all your Spanish skills and work on the issues of your interest.

Nowadays, Spanish is crucial to managers when evaluating employees and communicating on an intra-company basis with overseas divisions. Knowing Spanish opens doors, avoids embarrassment, and makes every trip to Spanish speaking countries more pleasurable.
 *** You have two choices (levels A1 - C2):
         Tailor made lessons matched to your individual goals.
         One hour lessons include resources to practice in your time.

->> Lesson choice 1 – BUSINESS (30 minutes):
Are you a business person with no time to study Spanish?

If you have some knowledge of Spanish and need to practice so that you don't forget the language or if your Spanish is starting to get rusty, this course is for you!
This class is appropriate for students with an levels A2+ to C2. It is focused on the development of speaking skills for work environments and everyday situations.
- Brief grammar explanations are offered only when it is necessary to make corrections or to answer student questions. 
- Discussions about various business and cultural topics.
- Important objectives are to increase vocabulary and to improve listening-comprehension skills by practicing in context.
** There is no homework and you don't need to do any preparation.
** Suggested frequency for the best results: twice a week (or at least once).

->> Lesson choice 1 – BUSINESS (ONE hour):
- Practical Spanish for the office, for meetings, for talking to clients.
- Useful vocabulary for Hispanic business world.
- Business correspondence.
- Pronunciation and preparation for business presentations.
- Grammar.
- Investments, insurance, industry, import and expot vocabulary.
**Prepration for JOB ENTRERVIEWS.

->> Lesson choice 2 - Special for LAWYERS (ONE hour):
- Vocabulary for lawyers & inmmigration service.
- Grammar focuced on legal situations.
- Readings: Newspaper articles on legal cases, immigration issues.
- Discussion practices.

All lessons provide professional teaching material: audios, videos, newspaper articles.

Spanish for Business  OR  Spanish for Lawyers -

Let's go to master the Spanish language!

You have 3 CHOICES:

->> OPTION 1 --- 1 HOUR:  Conversation and Hispanic Culture.
**Levels: A2 - C2.
- Skills to express views and feelings.
- Develop skills to DESCRIBE, COMMENT, ARGUE and TELL stories.
- Pronunciation (eventual practices). 
- Modern expresions and vocabulary for a natural conversation.
- Conversation practice focused on specific grammatical structure.
- Topics of your interest (movies, music, art, travel, culinary, sports, news, 
   economy, etc.).
- Readings and comments on topics of Hispanic world.
- Guided debate practice.
**ADVANCES LEVELS: Communicative and conversational practice to keep your Spanish sharp.
- Materials: Videos, audios, newspaper articles, music and others.
This class includes exercises and resources to practice in your time (homework).

--------------------> OPTION 1 -  (30 MINUTES)
*** Level B1 or upper.
Conversation with feedback (Corrections).
Professional practices according to your Spanish level.
Engaging topics of conversation.
Support to improve pronunciation.
Improve vocabulary.
This class DOESN´T include exercises to practice in your time.

->> OPTION 2: 
       Professional Training to Improve Pronunciation in Spanish – (1 HOUR).
Practice with consonants.
Practice with vowels.
Intonation.
Spelling accent recognition.
Accent reduction.
Reading aloud practices.
Professional listening materials.
EMPHASIS ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION.

->> OPTION 3: Reading and Literature – (1 HOUR).
*** Level B2 and upper.
Support for understanding figurative language. 
Accompaniment in readings of literary works. 
Development of argumentation and description skills.
Conversations about books and movies.

CONVERSATION & Hispanic culture – Fluency – Literature - Pronunciation

Medical Spanish course is suitable for doctors, nurses, dentist, pharmacists, students of medicine and other professionals working in the medical sector.

**Tailor-made lessons matched to your individual goals**
This is a special course for professional communication with Hispanic patients, consulting with doctors and hospital services. It is important to be highly accurate, clear and respectful in this communication with patients and their families, as well as with colleagues.

These classes provide:

- All the elements and strategies to form a profesional fluent speech in Spanish. This way you can expresses your opinions and diagnosis.

- You will practice presenting information and having discussions about medical topics and cases.

- Linguistic skills to describe symptoms and explain treatments.

- Step-by-step grammar concepts and practices in medical situations. 

- Use of specialized medical vocabulary in context. It's not about memorizing long lists of words.

- Cultural issues of the Hispanic world.

- Protocol of questions to write a medical record.

- Practices for writing medical reports and work emails.

***EMPHASIS ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION***
Understanding of different spoken Hispanic accents.
*PROFESSIONAL ENGAGING TEACHING MATERIAL.
Videos, medical articles, audios, readings and grammar practices.

This class includes exercises and resources to practice in your time (homework).

Spanish for Medical  Professions - Spanish for Doctors and Nurses

Spanish is a beautiful language that you can appreciate and enjoy more fully by mastering
the fundamentals of its structure.
I'm a grammar specialist. In my class you will find:

-Structured grammar lessons step by step.
-Lesson plan with the official order of the topics, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (MCER-Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas) and the Curricular Plan of the Cervantes Institute.
- Tailor made lessons matched to your individual goals.
- SKILLS: Reading, writing, listening and speaking. LEVELS A1 - C2.
**  Mastery of the past tenses and subjunctive mood.**
-VOCABULARY to express yourself in different situations.
-PROFESSIONAL ENGAGING TEACHING MATERIAL.
-Professional teaching resources: Grammar guides, excercises, audios, videos and music.
-Focused on regular and irregular verbs.
-Functions of prepositions for effective communication.
-Slang and colloquial expressions.
-Development of the lexical-semantics competence of the variants of Spanish in Latin America and Spain.
-Conversation practices and Hispanic culture.
This class includes exercises and resources to practice in your time (homework).

GRAMMAR - STRUCTURED SPANISH GRAMMAR LESSONS - 4 skills - All levels

You have 2 choices:

------- OPTION 1 – (ONE HOUR)
*** All levels
Listening and reading.
EMPHASIS ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION.
Understanding of different spoken Hispanic accents.
Easy grammar and speaking practice.
Effective Communication in everyday situations.
Useful vocabulary.
-PROFESSIONAL ENGAGING TEACHING MATERIAL.
Pronunciation.
Writing e-mails and friendly messages.
Exercises focused on the use of verbs associated with prepositions.
Practices with professional audios and videos. 
This class includes exercises to practice in your time (homework).

------- OPTION 2 -  (30 MINUTES)
*** All levels
Short listening comprehension practice focused on improving effective listening skills.
Understanding of different spoken Hispanic accents.
Feedback. 
Explanations of vocabulary and colloquial expressions in context.
Practices in reference to your Spanish level.
Professional audios.
This class DOESN´T include exercises to practice in your time.

Listening - Easy Spanish for Everyday Situations - EMPHASIS ON LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Professional preparation to achieve the DELE or SIELE Certifications, in reference to different levels.
Entrenamiento profesional para alcanzar las certificaciones DELE, o SIELE en sus diferentes niveles.

El entrenamiento para el Examen DELE comprende 3 partes:
DELE exam preparation is comprised of three parts:
1°- Ajuste y nivelación gramatical.
2° Entrenamiento para cada tipo de tarea del examen. Revisión de cada habilidad del idioma.
3° Prácticas de interacción oral, vocabulario, expresiones y ajustes de pronunciación.
-PROFESSIONAL ENGAGING TEACHING MATERIAL.

Este es un entrenamiento particular para presentar las pruebas, en sus 4 habilidades (comprensión auditiva, comprensión lectora, producción escrita y expresión e interacción orales) del examen DELE en todos sus niveles (A1 - C2).
Desde mi experiencia como EXAMINADORA CERTIFICADA DELE haremos simulaciones de la prueba oral con soporte de vocabulario.
This class includes exercises and resources to practice in your time (Homework).

La otra opción es la preparación para el Examen SIELE Global que comprende dos (2) partes:
1-Instrucción en gramatical y vocabularios.
2- Entrenamiento acerca del sistema online para realizar el examen.
También se ofrece entrenamiento por habilidades, de acuerdo al tipo de certificación SIELE que desee obtener.
This class includes exercises and resources to practice in your time (homework)

DELE Exam Preparation / SIELE Exam Preparation (Preparación Diplomas DELE y SIELE)

2014 - 2015 (4 ECTS).
Programa de desarrollo profesional para profesores de español.

Spanish for medical situations in hospitals and clinics. Spanish as a Foreign Language Strategies for Doctors, Nurses and Healthcare Professionals.

Pronunciation and Phonetic  about specific cases in different communities of Spanish students.
Strategies of Teaching Spanish phonetics.

Professional instructor for complete the language SIELE Test and get the certificate.
SIELE GLOBAL is an  international Spanish certificate.
20 Hours.

Analysis of the structure of the two DELE and SIELE exams.

Certificate in New Teaching and Learning Methodologies in Spanish as a Foreing Language (ELE). It provides updates and new tools for teaching in classroom and online classes.
Metodologías, enfoques y procesos de aprendizaje ELE.
13 Hours.

This certification qualifies the teacher to be an official international examiner during the DELE exam. It also trains the examiner to prepare students to take the DELE exam.

Diplomado: Business Leadership (1 semester).

Designs of materials for teaching Spanish as a foreign language, on online platforms.
Curso: Creación de espacios y materiales de español para enseñanza en línea.
30 hours.

Certificación DELE. 
(Diplomado en Didáctica del Español como Lengua Extranjera).

Strategies and tools for teaching Spanish to native English and German speakers.
 Seminar given by Wendy Rivera, specialist in phonetics and pronunciation. (Spain).

Course Origin and Varieties of Spanish Language, and Spanish as a Language Heritage.
3 ECTS - 60 hours (In person).

March - November 2017.
(4 ECTS) - 100 hours.

Master's Degree for Teaching and Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language and the Hispanic Culture.

Music as an important element for learning Spanish.

Diplomado en liderazgo empresarial - Business Leadership.

Master's Degree in Teaching and Learning Spanish as a Second Language and the Hispanic Culture.

Private tutoring in person.
Curses for small groups of bussines people in person.
Private tutoring online for specific purposes.
(This is my current job. I started to teach in 2000 in USA)

Spanish tutoring online one on one. All levels beginners to advanced students.

Private tutoring in person for people from Germany, UK, Belgium and Italy.
2010 Tutoring online

Spanish teaching for groups and individual classes in person.

Teacher for a Workshop writing stories for radio script

Cultural journalism for Spanish newspapers and magazines from Colombia and Miami.