Carolina Hernandez

I feel so fortunate to have found Carolina. She is the best! Works with me at my level towards my goals. She uses really good materials that are very helpful. I am always happy to have had a lesson with Carolina. Siempre cinco Estrellas!

Outstanding. I chose Carolina because of how clearly she spoke in her video, making it easy for me to understand her. I also was impressed that she is a journalist. I could tell that she was a nice person. She was very helpful and knowledgeable in our first lesson. I'm going begin regular lessons with her immediately.

We are almost 1/3 of the way through a series of 30 short movie fragments designed to help me with comprehension of movie dialog and monolog. As far as I know, my problem is unique, yet Carolina recently helped me break through a similar problem in reading, with spectacular results. She is my ally and thorough guide in helping me with the various nuances of listening comprehension. After living with this problem for 3-1/2 years, I had pretty much given up hope, but now I see new possibilities thanks to her. That's how she works.

I often say similar things about my lessons with Carolina, because they're consistently true. She works me hard. I feel like my brain is getting a workout. We pick difficult material and it's slow going, but I'm learning steadily. I'm learning about the legal system in Colombia and the standards of evidence, and I'm not involved in police or legal work--these are simply topics that have caught my interest in looking at other aspects of Colombian social life. Wherever you are in your studies of Spanish, Carolina can take you higher, at whatever pace you're ready for.

Carolina's methods are both highly structured and highly personalized. We are nearing the 5-year mark in our studies together, and she has taught me many skills to the expert level using structured, long-term course materials which she always has at her fingertips. I have had a long-term inability with understanding movie dialog, and she has found a method that is cracking the code, after I had considered it impossible until very recently. I am grateful to her, and beyond grateful, for what she has done for me as a student of Spanish.

I'm slowly starting to see improvement in my ability to understand movie dialog, something I had started to see as impossible. In my 5+ years of learning Spanish, I have developed a number of high-level skills, several with Carolina's guidance, yet this one has remained outside my reach for the entire time. I am the only student I know with this difficulty, and I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced it, but don't know how to check. Carolina has endured with me for more than 4-1/2 years. Carolina, know that I appreciate your work more than I can say.