I am a Swiss-Spanish certified teacher and I help enthusiastic language learners to break through the barriers of culture and language learning by focusing on pronunciation techniques and fluency.
💡 bilingual in Spanish/French
🥁 trained in pronunciation and phonetics
🌐 passionate about languages, cultures, and places
💪 confidence and fluency builder
📝 accredited DELE Examiner by Instituto Cervantes
Fun facts about me?
🌏 I went around the world on a boat teaching Spanish to Japanese students.
🚴♀️ I lived for 5 years in Japan and cycled back to Europe across Asia. お会いで来るのを楽しみにしています。
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Me as a Teacher
My lessons and teaching style go beyond regular tutoring.
I help you unlock your Fluency and Confidence by focusing on the power of Pronunciation and Prosody.
I create a learning environment in which you can give the best of yourself. At the moment, I have 2 learning programs for you to achieve results.
1. FLUENCY FOCUS (for intermediates and above): develop your fluency and enjoy talking about interesting topics through guided conversations and authentic materials
3. PRONUNCIATION & ACCENT FOCUS (all levels): if you are a beginner and want to start on a good foot or if you are intermediate/advanced and want to polish your accent to speak more naturally and confidently.
My lessons & teaching style
** IMPORTANT: PLEASE FILL IN THE TEACHER CONTACT FORM BEFORE SENDING ME A LESSON REQUEST OR MESSAGE ME ABOUT YOUR LANGUAGE SITUATION
**All lessons last 55min
**Please don´t ask me to reschedule a lesson less than 24 hours before the start of the lesson. The lesson will be due.
What you get:
📝Professional lessons based on a variety of premium resources
💬A lot of speaking practice
👍Support and follow up of your learning process
🎯Tips and strategies for language fluency
📃Homework assignments to reinforce what you learn during the classes
✔Pronunciation confidence
My teaching material
PDF file
Text Documents
Audio files
Image files
Video files
Articles and news
Homework Assignments
Certificates
Teaching French as Foreign Language - CAVILAM-Alliance Française - 2020
Certificate verified
Accreditation Course for DELE Examiners - Instituto Cervantes - 2020
Certificate verified
Teaching Spanish as a Second Language - Spanish Mentor - 2011
Certificate verified
Translation SP/EN - International House Barcelona - 2006
Certificate verified
Baccalaureate - Collège de Staël - 1998Certifies of my native level in French.
Diploma delivered to students after 12 years of education in the schooling system in Switzerland.
Certificate verified
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5.0
Rating
132
Students
2154
Lessons
100%
Attendance
100%
Response
French Lessons
French
Spanish
Trial Lesson
73 lessons completed
USD 15.00+
💬 💪 BUILD FLUENCY AND CONFIDENCE WITH MY GUIDED FRENCH CONVERSATIONS (B1+)
B1 - C1Conversation562 lessons completed
USD 33.00
🎯ACCENT TRAINING AND FRENCH PRONUNCIATION (Please read the description carefully!)
A1 - C2Language Essentials165 lessons completed
USD 20.00+
Availability
Based on your timezone (UTC+00:00)
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140 Reviews
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Jonatan
10 Spanish lessons
Teacher’s pick
I keep coming back for classes with Rocio because she offers something rare & unique.
Not only does she have all the fundamentals required to teach like the delicate combination of encouraging words and critical feedback, the ability to converse & make one feel comfortable in conversation, but she is trained in phonetics and the sounds of Spanish and actively trains herself to develop the ability to teach others how to come much closer to having a native-like accent.
It's been fun and looking forward to more classes.
Oct 3, 2023
Tom
60 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
Lessons with Rocio are great. I’m learning a lot, and quickly, and feel like I’m really benefiting. It seems like a very efficient way to learn…I should have started these lessons long ago! Thanks hugely!
May 19, 2023
Andriana
6 French lessons
Teacher’s pick
I wish I did this series of lessons a lot earlier! I higly recommend this course if you have troubles with the accent or even if you want to take it to the next level. I am an advanced french speaker and I still had lots of things to correct and learn.
The lessons are very well organized,structured and have a goal to focus every time (lessons with prepared material.) Also, they are fun and engaging.
They offered me a revision of the accent rules, practice those, correct bad habits,be able to recognize wrongly pronounced words and phrases. This course gave me the tools to use to move forwards by myself.
After years in italki I have to say someone rarely finds lessons of this quality. Great work Rocio!
May 24, 2022
Scott Walsh
3 French lessons
Rocio is the first FLE teacher I have found that not only understands how to properly teach pronunciation, but prosody and intonation. Truly recommend for all levels!
Oct 15, 2024
Andreea
11 French lessons
I chose Rocio by looking at the ratio between the number of lessons and the number of students; always the students that start her program keep taking lessons with her. I finished my first lesson package, so I had time to actually form an opinion.
Like most people trying to learn French, I tried several teachers here on Italki and it was always a struggle to find the right person. I was looking for a teacher that I could work with for an extended period of time.
Rocio is patient, very organized, and resourcefully prepared. Also she explains in a way that really covers all the aspects of the lesson she is teaching that day. She is passionate and positive, which creates a nice environment to learn French, in the same time you can see yourself doing clear progress every lesson.
The most important and I can’t stress enough how helpful it is, is to do pronunciation classes with her, it doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or advanced, she is absolutely brilliant when it comes to that.
Oct 10, 2024
Ana Rojas
11 French lessons
I really enjoyed the dynamic classes with Rocio. I have been speaking French for years, and since people could understand me most of the time, I didn’t care much about my accent. However, with these classes, I learned how to truly listen to myself while talking. I discovered new sounds I couldn’t recognize before and became more aware of my strengths and weaknesses. I am really thankful I did it and would say it was 100% worth it. Rocio is a very good and patient teacher who will explain you the music behind the French language.