Hi, I am Jiahui. I’ve been taking online classes with ISLA for over two months. I started off having very rusty Spanish without enough practice living in the U.S. However, after a few classes, I realized that I started to pick up grammar and conjugations fairly quickly. I feel a lot more comfortable speaking Spanish and using Spanish with people in my life. A huge thank you to my teacher, who’s been really responsible and patient with me. She designed the course according to my needs of learning more business Spanish and practicing speaking more intensively. Now I feel comfortable using difficult grammar structures even in speaking, which is something I’ve never envisioned in the past. I am beyond excited to be visiting ISLA in May and take intensive courses while getting immersed in the culture and become proficient in my third language.
Jiahui
Nach meinem Aufenthalt in Salamanca habe ich mich für den Online-Unterricht entschieden und bereue es auf gar keinen Fall. Das war die beste Entscheidung, um meine Sprachkenntnisse weiter zu vertiefen und auszubauen. Mir hat der Unterricht vor allem in den kommunikativen Kompetenzen, bei den grammatikalischen Besonderheiten und für die Vorbereitung auf ein Auslandssemester in Spanien sehr weitergeholfen. Am Ende möchte ich noch betonen, dass die Lehrerin sehr kompetent, hilfsbereit und vor allem sympathisch ist.
Jonas Schröder
I am currently having online lessons throughout my final year of University studying International Business and Spanish. Having previously spent time studying at ISLA during my gap year, I decided I would sign up for online lessons to recap certain topics that I am currently struggling with, boost my confidence in reading and writing and get help with preparing for my final exams. My teacher has been great at reading my work and picking out the grammatical errors I am making and planning lessons around these. At the end of each lesson, he sends me some exercises to do for the following class which is beneficial as it means we are making the most out of every lesson we have as I can prepare questions on the areas I struggle with ahead of the lesson. The classes have been very informative and as they are one-to-one you are constantly speaking Spanish for the entire hour and can ask as many or as little questions as you want based on how well you understand the topic covered.
Louise Reid
I have just finished my 10 online lessons with the lovely José María. At first, I wasn’t so sure about having lessons online and whether it would be worth my time and money as I wasn’t physically in a classroom with the teacher and other students, however, I have found it extremely beneficial to my Spanish language development.
It was definitely not what I had expected, which was chatting in Spanish for an hour with someone in Salamanca, it was so much better. I received course materials, there was set homework to complete between each lesson and I was given a short test that examined my progress.
Emily Smith
I’ve been doing online classes in ISLA for over a year now. After I came back to Ireland from my trip to Salamanca, I enrolled in regular Spanish classes. However I found that I missed a lot of classes due to work commitments, and was speaking too much English in the class compared to ISLA. I switched to online lessons instead, and love them. My favourite thing about them (aside from the very friendly Carlos!) is that we move at my pace.
Niamh O’Riordan
