Magda Flores

I have taugh English as a second language for more than 20 years, now I'm teaching Spanish as well. I focus on my student's needs, I plan and build the course's materials with practical day-to-day vocabulary and expressions, pronunciation, idiomatic expressions tropicalised to where they are going to be using the language.

I've recently gotten certified to teach Spanish as a second language. My experience as a teacher of a second language and the fact that I'm a Spanish native speaker, maskes the perfect combination to continue my teaching path.

Having been able to interact with people from different countries, beliefs and cultural backgrounds in both, English and Spanish; enriches my portfolio to be able to provide not only a proficient language learning process but also different ways to communicate.

Culture is very important when learning a new languange, vocabulary and grammar isn't everything to communicate efficiently, it is very important to understand how people communicate in their native languages.

Developing listening skills is as important, so I choose audios with different accents to stimulate this skill.

Latin America's Spanish is different from the Spanish from Spain (a.k.a. Castellano), accents, vocabulary and conjugations vary from one country to country, it is important to focus on basic structures to be able to communicate with more than one of them.

It's similar to American and British English, of course; and all the variations amongst English native countries.

The most important aspect of learning anything is to enjoy the process, I make sure classes are interesting and fun - learning requires motivation and I focus on making sure it is a positive one.