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“Written work is strong and speaking out loud is a full stop.”
Speaking from the first lesson
Talking before it is comfortable, because the alternative is three years of grammar and a student who cannot order lunch.
Spanish tutors
178
Spanish tutors on Saal
$26/hr
Lowest rate anyone charges
Two goals that pull in opposite directions: passing the class, and being able to say something. Good tutoring gets both, and it starts by asking which one you came for.
MiddleHighCollegeAdult
What you’ll work on
Five things people say before they book.
One of them is usually the reason. The topic underneath is what a tutor would put the first month into.
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“Past tenses are chosen by which one was taught most recently.”
The tense system
Preterite against imperfect, and then the subjunctive — the two places where every Spanish student's grade is decided.
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“The quiz score is fine and none of it comes back a month later.”
Vocabulary that stays
Words learned in phrases and revisited on a schedule, rather than lists learned for Friday and gone by Monday.
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“The teacher is easy to follow and a native speaker is not.”
Listening
Real speech at real speed, which is the skill the classroom has least time for and the exam tests hardest.
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“Preparation is for the content and never for the format.”
Writing and the oral exam
The formats your course actually grades — the presentational essay, the interpersonal exchange, the two-minute spoken response.
None of them quite it?
Bring the syllabus, the textbook or the last score report to a first lesson. Every Spanish tutor here plans against what you actually have, not against a standard course.
How a first lesson is runWho teaches it
Spanish, taught by 2 of these 178.
In whichever order you find useful. Thirty minutes with any of them is free, so meeting two before you choose costs nothing but the evening.
What it costs
Priced by level, not by subject.
Tutors set their own rate and Saal adds nothing on top of it. These are the bands they set it inside, the same in every subject, and the lowest anyone charges to teach Spanish is $26/hr.
Move or cancel any lesson up to twelve hours ahead at no charge, and the card is charged the morning after a lesson happens. Packages and refunds.
Middle school
$35/hr
what most tutors charge here
First and second year Spanish, with speaking built in before the grammar hardens.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$35/hr
$336/mo
8 lessons a month, at $42 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $42 off that.
Your first thirty minutes
Thirty free minutes, and this is what they are for.
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Talk for five minutes
In Spanish, badly. The tutor is listening for what you reach for, not for mistakes.
The terms, in full
- Free
- 30 minutes
- No card asked for
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Say what it is for
A grade, a trip, a job, a conversation with family. It changes the whole plan, and it is asked first.
It will be one of these five
- Speaking from the first lesson
- The tense system
- Vocabulary that stays
- Listening
- Writing and the oral exam
Questions
What people ask before they book.
Nearby
Where people go next.
The rest of English & languages first, then whatever else is taught at the same levels.
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