Carlos 🙋🏻‍♂️

Exactly one year ago today, I took my first italki lesson with Carlos. He is a great teacher - knowledgeable energetic, kind, patient, the list goes on, but what I really want to highlight is that learning Spanish with him has been a rewarding experience for me. I never wanted to learn Spanish, but due to some life changes, I found myself in Peru unable to speak the language. Within a few months of learning from Carlos, I went from zero to being able to communicate with people. The work that went into that was a lot from both our parts, but I’m grateful for all the lessons and his patience with me when I was frustrated with the language at times. He has also taught me a lot about Latin American culture and I have grown to have an appreciation for South America that I never had before. I have more than enough words to have full conversations with locals and live life now, but my goal has changed - I want to be fluent because Carlos has inspired me to be.

I have already taken formal classes. Now I need practice and reinforcement of what I've already learned. Carlos is aware that I want to work on listening, speaking and interacting, and we do this with discussions on interesting topics where he encourages a back and forth conversation (with his corrections along the way, verbally and also written when he can see that I don't quite understand). Until now I have been reticent to try speaking in Spanish and the sessions are definitely helping me to get past my fears. Sometimes I will worry about how it will go (because of me) but then the time flies by!

Awesome!

Carlos is a very empathetic, intelligent, and patient teacher. I couldn’t ask for anyone better. He is full of energy, motivation, and passion, and he has a very unique and effective way of teaching. I started with him as an absolute beginner, and now, two months later, we can have two hours of conversation, including questions and answers. I absolutely recommend him as a teacher.

Una clase genial! Un gran oportunidad mejorar mis habilidades de conversación. Carlos es un compañero de conversación excelente.

Carlos is very adaptable. I came in with a flu, so we talked about aspects of our lives related to medicine. Specifically, he used well placed questions to get me to express myself in Spanish and then if I could not fully express myself, he taught me the words that I was missing.