Do you know how many American people can speak Spanish fluently?

Do you know how many of them can write, read and translate correctly?

Some studies estimate that it is only around 2-5% of Americans that speak Spanish FLUENTLY AND CORRECTLY.

Nevertheless, the number of Hispanic Americans now tops 50 million people, comprising 16 percent of the population. By 2050, they will likely be one-third of the nation’s population.

If you are an adult or a student you should speak Spanish to increase your opportunities to mingle with Latinos, to interact with them, to do business and to live with them. As Mary Sanchez said, “Our destiny as a nation is tied up with Latinos ‘destiny as an ethnic group”.

Consequently, my methods take into account this astounding reality. My methods convey my determination to make the process of immersion promising. Since the very beginning I practice ways in which I can explain and show grammar concepts within daily conversation, current events, and without falling back into English.

I use short warm-up exercises at the beginning of the class to allow students to shift their mental focus to Spanish. Then conversation, then reading, and intergradations that start given the students the tools to live in a different language world.

This part presents interesting real-world information that introduces the unit or cycle, and also develops vocabulary. Follow up questions encourage discussion of the Snapshot material and personalize the topic.

The conversations introduce the new grammar of each cycle in a communicative context and present functional and conversational expressions.

The new grammar of each unit is presented in an outgoing manner and is followed by controlled and freer communicative practice activities. These freer activities often have students use the grammar in a personal context.

These exercises focus on important features of spoken Spanish, including stress, rhythm, intonation, reductions, and blending.

These activities develop a wide variety of listening skills, including listening for gist, listening for details, and inferring meaning from contexts.

This part includes practical writing tasks that extend and reinforce the teaching points in the unit and help develop student’s composition skills.

The reading passages use various types of texts adapted from authentic sources. The readings develop a variety of reading skills, including reading for details, skimming, scanning and making inferences.

You will learn the basics of business Spanish. Most importantly, you are going to learn how to use and manage your financial and non-financial resources to earn profit in the proper jargon.

Why study Spanish literature. I have several reasons, and most of them are explained during the course, but to mention a few: To benefit from the insight of others, but in Spanish. To open our minds to ambiguities of meaning, and to explore other cultures and beliefs.

Some authors we study: Jorge Luis Borges, Arturo Sabato, Mario Vargas Llosa, last Nobel Prize; Gabriel Garcia Marzquez, entre otros.

These are great events happening now but I use them to teach and to encourage the students to get involved in the discussion and the comprehension of political, economical, artistic, or religious issues. We read books, newspapers of the Hispanic countries.

What Is Economics? How I Would Define It; What is Macroeconomics? What is Microeconomics? All the terminology is explain in Spanish.

The relationship between international law and national law (municipal law or domestic law as it is also called) is one of the most intriguing, variables, and I would say complex, issues that arise in the context of the application of international law. Any lawyer that deals with these issues should know the proper terminology in Spanish, I teach the most recent judicial cases in Spanish and the explanation of the terminology.